Ohio Gov. John Kasich unveiled a new ad about his foreign policy ideas. The Republican presidential candidate will detail his specific proposals in a speech from Washington, D.C., on Tuesday afternoon, in the aftermath of the Paris terrorist attacks.
The ad includes video of Kasich speaking at a campaign event in Florida the night after the attacks.
“What we saw last night, what we observed on 9/11, really represent an attack on Western civilization,” Kasich is shown saying. “We have to let people know that savages like this are not something that we can tolerate. We work with the French, we put a coalition together to attack and destroy [the Islamic State].”
And while Kasich has sounded consistently hawkish on the issue of defense, his ideas about homeland security seem to have changed.
Speaking about refugees in September with Fox News, Kasich said, “I wouldn’t say to these people, ‘You can’t come in,'” but he added that he would not let unknown refugees from dangerous regions of the world into the country either. But the Ohio governor’s office told the Cincinnati Enquirer this week that Kasich has written President Obama to ask that the resettlement of Syrian refugees in Ohio cease. Kasich joins many other governors who have done likewise after an investigation of the Paris terrorist attacks uncovered a link to the Syrian refugee crisis.
Kasich ranks 11th in the Washington Examiner‘s newest GOP presidential power rankings.
