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Ted Cruz Signals Growing Frustration With ‘Spoiler’ Kasich

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By Patrick Svitek. For nearly all of the 2016 Republican presidential campaign, you would have been hard-pressed to hear Ted Cruz mention fellow competitor John Kasich.

But now it’s a three-person race. And as Cruz tries to consolidate support from Republicans opposed to Donald Trump, the Texas senator is taking direct aim at Kasich, saying the Ohio governor is sabotaging the GOP’s hopes of defeating the billionaire.

“A vote for John Kasich is a vote for Donald Trump,” Cruz told reporters Saturday in Utah. “I don’t know if John Kasich is perhaps campaigning to be Donald Trump’s vice president, but he has been eliminated mathematically from having any chance of being the nominee.”

Cruz was similarly dismissive a day earlier in Arizona, where he told Fox News host Sean Hannity that Kasich’s role in the nominating process at this point “is essentially as a spoiler.” (Read more from “Ted Cruz Signals Growing Frustration With ‘Spoiler’ Kasich” HERE)

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Cruz: Kasich Blocked Me From Winning Illinois

By Ryan Lovelace. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said he would have won the Illinois Republican primary over Donald Trump, if not for Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

Cruz told Fox News that Kasich’s presidential bid has functionally served to deliver delegates to Trump.

“What he’s doing doesn’t make any sense unless he’s auditioning to be Trump’s vice president because he can only be a spoiler,” Cruz said. “I’ll give you an example: Illinois. We would have won Illinois without John Kasich. Trump had 38 percent in Illinois, I had 30 percent, Kasich had 19.” (Read more from “Cruz: Kasich Blocked Me From Winning Illinois” HERE)

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Kasich on Nominating Merrick Garland If He Were President [+video]

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By Melanie Hunter. GOP presidential candidate Ohio Gov. John Kasich told CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday that as president, he would consider nominating D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court pick.

“Well, you know, he received overwhelming support, I think even from Senator Hatch. So, of course we’d think about it,” Kasich said when asked if he would “take a look” at Garland if he were president.

“Let me ask you a presidential question about Merrick Garland put forward by the president for the Supreme Court. This could be a decision you have to handle. What is your sense of — what is your feeling about the way that your Republican colleagues have responded to that nomination from the president?” host John Dickerson asked.

“Well, look, I never thought the president should send it, because I knew nothing was going to happen. I mean, frankly, they probably ought to all sit down and meet with the guy, and my feeling is, at the end of the day, whoever gets elected president should be in a position to be able to pick who they want,” Kasich responded.

“And the American people will decide by either voting for a Republican or Democrat what the makeup of the court is. I just think that is a process that can unite us, rather than a process that right now continues to divide us,” he added. (Read more from “Kasich on Nominating Merrick Garland If He Were President” HERE)

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McConnell: Merrick Garland Would Move Supreme Court ‘Dramatically to the Left’

By Melanie Hunter. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told “Fox News Sunday” that D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama’s pick for the U.S. Supreme Court to replace the late Antonin Scalia, will “move the court dramatically to the left.”

“This judge would move the court dramatically to the left. He’s enthusiastically supported by MoveOn.org,” said McConnell.

“Some of your Republican colleagues are already suggesting that if your side, if the GOP loses the election in November, that perhaps they would consider Judge Garland in a lame duck session because, in fact, he might be more moderate than, let’s say, Hillary Clinton’s nominee would be,” host Chris Wallace said, referring to Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.).

Flake said, “I think Republicans are fully justified in doing what we’re doing — waiting. And — but if we happen to lose the election, then I think we ought to push him through quickly if we can.” (Read more from “McConnell: Merrick Garland Would Move Supreme Court ‘Dramatically to the Left'” HERE)

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GUN-BANNER JOHN KASICH: His Horrible, Terrible, Awful Track Record on the Second Amendment

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John Kasich is more than a presidential “candidate” that has no legitimate chance to win the Republican nomination.

He’s more than a big government Republican who loves the federal takeover of education known as “Common Core”.

He’s also more than a rabid pro-Amnesty advocate for open borders.

Despite his newfound respect for the Second Amendment, he’s also a gun control advocate who once joined with the Clintons to pass the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban.

Ohio Governor John Kasich learned of last October’s shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, which left 10 dead, during a televised interview. While informing him of the shooting, an NBC reporter called Kasich a “supporter of gun control” who once earned an F rating from the National Rifle Association (NRA).

The Republican presidential candidate immediately corrected him. “I’ve received an A rating since I’ve been governor,” said Kasich, who won his first gubernatorial term in 2010. “You can strip all the guns away, but the people who are gonna commit crimes or have problems are always gonna be able to have the guns,” he added. “People feel like, ‘I’d like to be able to protect myself.’”

In 1993, following a different mass shooting, Kasich saw the issue another way. After a man used an automatic pistol to fatally shoot eight people at a San Francisco law firm, he was one of 215 House members to vote for a ban on assault weapons that became law in 1994. It was that vote that earned Kasich the failing NRA grade.

Kasich is the prototypical GOP establishment drone, who is staying in the race — not to win — but to try to take the nomination process to the convention where insiders will try to steal the trophy from Donald Trump or Ted Cruz.

A vote for Kasich is a vote for chaos. (For more from the author of “GUN-BANNER JOHN KASICH: His Horrible, Terrible, Awful Track Record on the Second Amendment” please click HERE)

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Glenn Beck Just Unloaded on Kasich – Here’s the Reason Why

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After winning the Republican primary in his home state of Ohio Tuesday night, Republican presidential candidate John Kasich announced that he plans to stay the course. Glenn Beck had a few choice words for him.

“Kasich, I mean, excuse my language, but, you son of a bitch, the republic is at stake,” Beck said Wednesday on The Glenn Beck Radio Program. “This is not like a normal race. The republic is at stake.”

Continuing his criticism of Kasich, Beck, a top surrogate for Republican candidate Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, argued that the Ohio governor is “delusional” if he thinks he can win. Additionally, he thinks the Ohio governor made his victory speech Tuesday night “about himself” instead of about the country . . .

Beck argued that as long as Kasich stays in the race, he essentially acts as a spoiler, effectively helping GOP contender Donald Trump, and if it’s between Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton and Trump, a third-party candidate could emerge.

“If you put this together and it was an incredible third party, not establishment, an incredible third party, and said, ‘We’re not going to be the GOP anymore,’ I think you get a lot of independents voting for it,” Beck said. “Because the GOP, especially if the GOP throws their weight behind Donald Trump, if he wins the nomination and they throw their weight behind Donald Trump, it’s over.” (Read more from “Glenn Beck Just Unloaded on Kasich – Here’s the Reason Why” HERE)

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Kasich Pledges to Force Through Amnesty for Illegals in His First 100 Days as President

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It’s pretty easy to size up a politician by his priorities. And in the case of Ohio Governor John Kasich, he’s prioritized illegal immigrants over his own constituents.

It should come as no surprise that Kasich pledged to pass amnesty for illegal aliens during the first 100 days of his administration instead of deporting all criminal aliens and punishing sanctuary cities. These are the same values he championed as governor of Ohio.

On July 27, 2015, Juan Emmanuel Razo, an illegal alien from Mexico, raped and murdered Margaret Kostelnik in a small township 30 miles northeast of Cleveland. On the same day, Razo shot and wounded another woman in front of her two children and attempted to rape a 14-year old girl in a nearby park. Just yesterday, in fact, AP reported that Razo might be spared the death penalty after agreeing to a plea deal.

Razo had no prior criminal record (aside from the inconvenient fact that he was in the country illegally) so he was not picked up by Border Patrol when local cops apprehended him just three weeks prior to his shooting spree. Having committed no previous crime, Razo would be a prime candidate for John Kasich’s amnesty. Not surprisingly, Kasich had nothing to say about this murder in his home state until he was pressed on it by Fox News, even though he was a sitting governor who was already running for president. In fact, he called such deportations (those with no prior criminal record) “inhumane.”

What is truly inhumane is a politician who cares more about foreign nationals here illegally than his own constituents. Kasich has long supported illegal immigration. Yes, he is such a political fossil that he was even around in 1986 to vote for the infamous Simpson-Mazzoli amnesty. That amnesty, and the subsequent three-decade cycle of open borders and amnesty that ensued, has resulted in endless cases like the tragedy of Margaret Kostelnik. Yet Kasich, rather than learn his lesson like many of those who supported the 1986 bill, wants to repeat the cycle and encourage more illegal immigration. All because he cares more about the political elites and the sentiments of the special interests than his own constituents.

In November 2014, during the same week Obama announced his executive amnesty, Kasich echoed Obama’s talking points on immigration, always concerned about the illegal immigrant, not the American citizen. He said his views had “evolved” and that he didn’t want to “see anybody in pain.” Evidently, that sense of empathy didn’t extend to the pain of his constituents.

John Kasich failed the most basic test as governor of Ohio by placing the interests of foreign nationals ahead of residents of his state. Now he wants a promotion to Vice President under Donald Trump? (For more from the author of “Kasich Pledges to Force Through Amnesty for Illegals in His First 100 Days as President” please click HERE)

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John Kasich Goes All in for Amnesty: Illegals ‘Made in the Image of the Lord’

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With Sen. Marco Rubio’s presidential hopes diminishing as his personal demons catch up with him—from his relationship with billionaire Norman Braman to his role in pushing Obama’s amnesty—the donor class seems to be turning its eyes to John Kasich’s last stand in Ohio.

The hope seems to be that a Kasich win in Ohio will not only deny GOP frontrunner Donald Trump delegates, but will also create a new vehicle for arriving at a contested convention.

Because the Kasich campaign was largely ignored as a non-factor prior to Rubio’s polling collapse, Kasich went months with virtually no scrutiny of even his most bizarre statements on the campaign trail.

However, in recent days, Trump has increasingly set his sights on Kasich—whether it be Kasich’s role at Lehman Brothers during the time of the economic collapse, as well as Kasich’s support for NAFTA and Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement—a deal which Donald Trump and Sen. Jeff Sessions have warned would destroy Ohio’s auto industry . . .

In June, the Columbus Dispatch reported on a meeting that took place between John Kasich and an illegal immigrant and her son. After their meeting, Kasich said: “They’re just good people. They’re made in the image of the Lord, and you know, there’s a big element of compassion connected to how we treat people who are trying to find a way to a better life.” (Read more from “John Kasich Goes All in for Amnesty: Illegals ‘Made in the Image of the Lord'” HERE)

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