Trump beating Kasich in OH, Kasich responds to “left their kitchens” comment
In a recent poll conducted by Quinnipiac University, New York businessman Donald Trump is beating Ohio Governor John Kasich in his home state by five points.
Analysts are saying that a Kasich win in Ohio is crucial to defeat the Trump “steamroller.” Trump has won every Republican primary so far, but it might be possible for Kasich to close the gap with three weeks left until the March 15 Ohio primary.
However, Kasich is currently in hot water due to his remark that women “left their kitchens” to get him elected to state Senate at age 26.
After making the offhand comment harsh opposition was immediately leveled against him, even garnering a tweet from Hillary Clinton that read “A woman’s place is…wherever she wants it to be.”
When a reporter read the tweet to Kasich, he responded, “I completely agree,” noting that his campaign manager, his appointment to the Supreme Court and his lieutenant governor are all women.
“I am not a scripted candidate,” he said. “I don’t use teleprompters. I don’t run around with all these notes like lots of people do. I’m real and maybe sometimes I might say something that isn’t artfully said as well as it should be but you know I’m kind of a real guy.”
With the Ohio primary closely approaching, the consequences of Kasich’s unscripted campaign, positive or negative, will soon be revealed.
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Coming only two days after the Ohio governor and presidential candidate signed the bill defunding Planned Parenthood, John Kasich stumbled again with women due to an uncouth remark at a campaign stop in Virginia.
Speaking about his race for state Senate at age 26, the unscripted presidential hopeful said, “How did I get elected? I didn’t have anybody for me. We just got an army of people who – and many women left their kitchens to go out door to door and put yard signs up for me all the way back when things were different. Now you call home and everybody’s out working, but at that time … it was an army of the women that really helped me get elected to the state Senate.”
The Kasich campaign quickly released a statement to NBC News saying, “They’ve literally been run out of his friends’ kitchens and many of his early campaign teams were made up of stay-at-home moms who believed deeply in the changes he wanted to bring to them and their families…. That’s real grassroots campaigning and he’s proud of that authentic support. To try and twist his comments into anything else is just desperate politics.”
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