In a new bid to mock the Republican presidential front-runner, Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s campaign debuted trump-putin2016.com, highlighting the similarities between the Russian leader and the business mogul.
“Trump names Vladimir Putin his running mate,” the Kasich team writes in a mock press release.
The release explains that Trump “picked Putin to be his vice president for his strong approach to dealing with dissent, flexible approach to democracy, rule of law and the Constitution, and his willingness to regularly violate other countries’ territorial integrity in blatant violation of international law if it suited his aims.”
Trump polls at 33.8 percent nationally, versus 2.2 percent for Kasich.
The more mainstream Ohio governor has tried to narrow the gap by attacking Trump’s comments about women, Hispanics and Muslims, calling them divisive. Kasich has repeatedly said Trump is “not a serious candidate.”
Kasich mocks Trump’s cadence and way of communicating in the Putin press release.
“I think I would just get along very well with Vladimir Putin. I just think so. People say what do you mean? I just think we would,” Trump says in the fake announcement.
Concerns that “a Putin vice presidency is, well, illegal are just sour grapes from dummies not smart enough to think of it first,” the mock release says.
Unlike all his Republican primary opponents, Trump has said that he would be open to doing business with the Russian leader. Trump says he has had a positive impression of Putin since meeting him.
Kasich is currently ninth on the Washington Examiner‘s presidential power rankings.
