Ohio Gov. John Kasich on Tuesday explicitly ruled out ever working with Donald Trump in the future.
“There’s no way I would team up with Donald Trump. No way. Forget it,” he said on Fox News Tuesday.
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He also explained to reporters in Ohio his newfound antipathy toward Trump.
“Things move fast in a presidential campaign,” Kasich said. “I focus on what I’m going to be doing at my next event, I focus on who’s winning the golf tournament that I’m interested in, and that’s about it. I mean I don’t really focus on what somebody else is doing in some other campaign.”
Kasich told reporters that new developments in recent days have taken him to a “whole other level” in his opposition to Trump. The governor mentioned “what I saw on Friday night,” an apparent reference to the violence at a canceled Trump rally in Chicago, and a list of quotes Trump has used to describe women that Kasich read on Monday.
As the Buckeye State primary gets underway on Tuesday, Kasich’s public stand against Trump serves as a marker for voters who may cast ballots for the governor simply to stop Trump from winning. Kasich has yet to win a state on the 2016 campaign trail, and a loss in Ohio could end his presidential bid.
