{"id":64390,"date":"2018-04-30T06:05:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T06:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=64390"},"modified":"2018-04-30T06:05:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T06:05:43","slug":"kasich-denies-leaving-the-gop-the-republican-party-left-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/kasich-denies-leaving-the-gop-the-republican-party-left-me.html","title":{"rendered":"Kasich denies leaving the GOP: &#8216;The Republican Party left me&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Kasich denies leaving the GOP: &#8216;The Republican Party left me&#8217;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) on Sunday dismissed rumors that he is considering running for president as an independent, telling CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper that he is \u201cstill a Republican&#8221; and that he believes he can bring the party &#8220;back&#8221; to what it once was.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">\u201cI\u2019m still a Republican,\u201d Kasich said. \u201cI didn&#8217;t leave the Republican Party. The Republican Party left me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">&#8220;We should care about people from top to bottom, not just those at the top, but everybody,\u201d he told Tapper. \u201cI can bring that party back. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m going to do in one way or another.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Kasich touted Ohio\u2019s economic situation, saying that just because he is a Republican, he does not feel he has to be \u201canti-immigrant\u201d or \u201canti-trade.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">\u201cIn my state we have balanced budgets, surplus, we&#8217;re up half a million jobs and then people say, &#8216;Well Kasich&#8217;s not a conservative.&#8217; What does that mean?&#8221; he said. \u201cDoes that mean I have to be anti-immigrant, anti-trade?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Speculation has been mounting about Kasich\u2019s possible 2020 run, including rumors that he and Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) could form a bipartisan ticket, a rumor both Kasich and Hickenlooper have denied.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Kasich, 65, told CNN earlier this year that he is keeping his options open, and even speculated that the U.S. could be \u201cbeginning to see the end of a two-party system.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 8pt;color: #000000\">Source:-http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/385420-gop-gov-john-kasich-i-didnt-leave-the-republican-party-the-republican<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/kasich-denies-leaving-the-gop-the-republican-party-left-me.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kasich denies leaving the GOP: &#8216;The Republican Party left me&#8217; Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) on Sunday dismissed rumors that he is considering running for president as an independent, telling CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper that he is \u201cstill a Republican&#8221; and that he believes he can bring the party &#8220;back&#8221; to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":64391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[134805,79821,9292,127003,3442,124817],"class_list":["post-64390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-kasich-denies-leaving-the-gop-the-republican-party-left-me","tag-latest-news-headlines","tag-latest-us-news","tag-today-latest-news","tag-usa-breaking-news","tag-usa-today-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}