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John Kasich
vision 2020
Aug. 17, 2020
Democrats Have a Lot of Republicans Speaking Monday Night Republicans have more often featured apostates at their convention, but Democrats have a bumper crop the first night of the convention.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Oct. 18, 2019
Kasich Comes Out for Trump Impeachment The former governor and 2016 candidate, like Mitt Romney, used to be a classic hardcore conservative. The GOP has changed a lot.
By Ed Kilgore
Iowa State Fair Is for Fried Food and Politics 23 presidential candidates are set to speak at the fair, which kicks off today, all trying to avoid gaffes and the consumption of perilous fair food.
By Ed Kilgore
A Kasich Primary Challenge to Trump Ain’t Happening Once the Ohioan was perceived as a viable challenger to Trump’s renomination. Now he’d need to put on a red hat to get any sort of GOP audience.
By Ed Kilgore
Hickenlooper Counts On Unconventional Path to the Presidency It may be the wrong year for this fan of fracking and bipartisanship.
By Ed Kilgore
william weld
Feb. 15, 2019
William Weld and the Strange Allure of No-Hope Primary Challenges So many people think Trump ought to have a primary challenger that they’ll exaggerate the importance of anyone who shows up.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 elections
Jan. 2, 2019
Republicans Could Cancel Primaries to Protect Trump From a Challenge It’s unnecessary and unseemly, to be sure, but how many Republicans will openly complain about renominating Trump by acclamation?
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Nov. 26, 2018
By Adam K. Raymond
vision 2020
Sept. 9, 2018
Another Problem for Trump: A 2020 Primary Challenge Is Growing More Likely In New Hampshire, there are increasing signs that a fellow Republican will take on the president.
By Gabriel Debenedetti
2018 elections
Aug. 13, 2018
Trump Denies Kasich Any Credit for Ohio Outcome Kasich probably had as much to do as Trump with Troy Balderson holding a lead in the 12th District Ohio race, but POTUS just has to call him a loser.
By Ed Kilgore
Schwarzenegger, Kasich Are Going to Try to Pull the California GOP to the Middle While the party moves to the right and toward Trump, hope springs eternal for isolated moderates.
By Ed Kilgore
Governor Kasich’s Anti-Trumpism Has Made Him Radioactive for Ohio Republicans Ohio’s GOP gubernatorial candidates fear conservative, Trump-loving voters too much to snuggle up to their current governor.
By Ed Kilgore
Can a #NeverTrump Republican Win in 2020? Don’t Bet on It. Anti-Trumpers long for a third option in the next presidential race, but their prospects are grim.
By Ed Kilgore
reproductive rights
Dec. 24, 2017
Ohio Governor John Kasich Just Banned Abortions for Down Syndrome Diagnoses “They’re very much pro-birth bills; they have nothing to do with actual life.”
By Amanda Arnold
John Kasich’s Campaign Against Trump Never Stopped. And It Won’t Till 2020. One year after his failed run at president, the Ohio governor is plotting his path to another.
By Lisa Miller
Mike Pence Has Every Reason to Gear Up for 2020 — But Don’t Tell His Boss The hysterical response of Team Pence to reports his political team has contingency plans for 2020 illustrates the deep neuroses of the White House.
By Ed Kilgore
Is Kasich Preparing a Primary Challenge to Trump in 2020? Kasich has never bent the knee to Trump. But viable primary challengers to sitting presidents come from the fever swamps, not the sensible center.
By Ed Kilgore
surprising things
May 24, 2017
By Anna Silman
4 GOP Governors Attack Trumpcare (From the Left) But the bill is moving forward — and to the right.
By Eric Levitz
reproductive wrongs
Dec. 13, 2016
By Susan Rinkunas
reproductive wrongs
Dec. 12, 2016
By Susan Rinkunas
John Kasich Is Voting Like It’s 2008 Cruz and Rubio didn’t mention Trump by name, but appeared to have cast ballots for him in early voting.
By Jen Kirby
early and often
Sept. 19, 2016
Reince Priebus Caps Off Controversial Weekend by Feuding With John Kasich The Ohio governor did not appreciate the GOP chairman’s stand against Republicans who won’t back Trump.
By Charley Lanyon
Report: Trump Plans to License His Name to His Administration, Not to Run It Trump told John Kasich that if he agreed to be his running mate, the Ohio governor could be in charge of both domestic and foreign policy, The New York Times Magazine reports.
By Eric Levitz
No, John Kasich, the Media Didn’t Create Trump. Your Broken Party Did. When most Americans watch saturation coverage of Donald Trump, they see an entertaining garbage fire. Only the GOP base sees a president.
By Eric Levitz
The Real Reason Ted Cruz and John Kasich Dropped Out Now When much of a party doesn’t think its putative nominee will win, the next election will be on everybody’s mind.
By Ed Kilgore
John Kasich Is Finally Done Pretending He Could Be President The Ohio governor, who still trails Marco Rubio in the delegate count, will suspend his delusional campaign for the GOP nomination this afternoon.
By Eric Levitz
Cruz Losing Popularity Among Republicans at the Worst Possible Moment Polls in Indiana aren’t the only public-opinion problem facing Ted Cruz. Republicans nationally are suddenly souring on him.
By Ed Kilgore
prom politics
May 1, 2016
John Kasich Makes Promposals Officially No Longer Cool GOP candidate John Kasich and puns killed the promposal.
By Kat Ward
This Delusional John Kasich Ad Imagines What His Nomination Will Look Like Even as the Kasich-Cruz “pact” begins to fall apart in Indiana, a new ad for the Ohioan shows him imagining Rapture in Cleveland.
By Ed Kilgore
the national circus
Apr. 27, 2016
The Trump vs. Clinton Game Is on for November Get ready for the GOP’s self-proclaimed “presumptive nominee” to begin a new phase of anti-Hillary attacks.
By Frank Rich
early and often
Apr. 26, 2016
Trump’s Northeastern Sweep Might Spell Doom for the ‘Never Trump’ Movement His string of victories could make next week’s Indiana primary a true must-win for Ted Cruz and what’s left of the anti-Trump coalition.
By Ed Kilgore
early and awkward
Apr. 25, 2016
The Cruz-Kasich Deal Is Already Falling Apart Trump’s opponents can’t even collude properly. Sad!
By Claire Landsbaum
Donald Trump Also Grossed Out by John Kasich’s ‘Disgusting’ The Republican front-runner only eats small, classy bites of food, you see.
By Chris Crowley
everyday heroes
Apr. 25, 2016
By Jessica Roy
early and often
Apr. 25, 2016
Cruz, Kasich Team Up to Keep Delegates From Trump in 3 Upcoming Primaries With the unorthodox deal, both candidates are trying to ensure a contested convention.
By Claire Landsbaum
Kasich: Dems in D.C. Should Stay Disenfranchised “Maybe I’ll have to flip-flop my position, OK? I don’t know,” he added, bravely.
By Eric Levitz
the national interest
Apr. 21, 2016
Kasich Plan Hidden in Undisclosed Ohio Location But you should really buy it, and get some TruCoat.
By Jonathan Chait
Does John Kasich Have a Strategy, or Is He Just Meandering Around the Country? You’d think a candidate billing himself as an open-convention favorite would be focused like a laser on snagging second-ballot commitments while helping stop Donald Trump. You’d be wrong.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
Apr. 20, 2016
By Claire Landsbaum
New York Voters Have a Lot of Complaints New York appears to be really bad at hosting primary elections, but really good at complaining about them.
By Eric Levitz
last night on late night
Apr. 19, 2016
By Halle Kiefer
early and often
Apr. 19, 2016
Clinton and Trump Poised for New York Victories The Donald needs a landslide in his home state. Bernie Sanders needs another Michigan miracle.
By Eric Levitz
GOPers Have Self-Serving Views of Who Can Win The Republican presidential candidates favor a circle of legitimate candidates just big enough to accommodate their own selves, and no bigger.
By Ed Kilgore
campaign 2016
Apr. 15, 2016
By Catie L'Heureux
Donald Trump’s Lead in New York May Be Smaller Than It Looks The Donald is set for a landslide victory in the Empire State, but a new poll shows him losing two dozen delegates in New York nonetheless.
By Eric Levitz
the national interest
Apr. 13, 2016
John Kasich Meets Talmudic Scholars, Tries to Explain Bible to Them He apparently does not consider the possibility that they know more about this subject than he does.
By Jonathan Chait
early and often
Apr. 12, 2016
The 3 Different Kinds of GOP Delegate Fights Think of it as a three-dimensional chess game.
By Ed Kilgore
new york values
Apr. 8, 2016
John Kasich Visits New York Landmark H&M Kasich goes to the center of New York City fashion.
By Eve Peyser
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