WASHINGTON (AP) – John Kasich is sending a message to Republicans who think he should drop out of the GOP presidential contest: “Forget about it.”
With Jeb Bush out of the race, Kasich’s and Marco Rubio’s campaigns are in a fierce battle to become the so-called establishment alternative to front-runner Donald Trump.
Kasich’s campaign is running a strategy that relies on surviving through the March 1 Super Tuesday contest and winning Michigan’s March 8 primary. Kasich says people need to “chill out” because there’s a “long way to go” in the GOP nominating contest.
Then, Kasich says he’d love to take on Trump in his home state of Ohio, which holds its winner-take-all primary on March 15.
