Kasich works to assure South Carolina of conservative record

“People told me that when I get to SC, I gotta go real conservative”, Kasich told an overflow crowd at a town hall event in downtown Charleston.

“If you’re going to have power – use it to drive creativity, innovation and change and if you don’t do that why don’t you get out”, he said. He’s a really talented guy, and I was in the House with Kasich, but given the infrastructure in SC and beyond Jeb has the best chance of the governors left. Sen.

Kasich, who rode to second place in New Hampshire on a positive, independent-minded message, is expected to confront far less friendly terrain in SC and the southern states that follow it.

Clay Johnson, a long-term friend, told the Washington Post that in a meeting last month Mr Bush said: “Can you believe what’s going?”

By weighing in in South Carolina, Mr Bush is choosing a state in which he remains popular and where his own presidential campaign in 2000 recovered its momentum with a victory over John McCain after losing the New Hampshire primary. But few were. I’ve homed in on the five reasons why Kasich’s big night there wasn’t a surprise.

After his New Hampshire triumph, John Kasich enters a tough stretch down South. And Jeb Bush is slinging more arrows his way.

“He came to next-to-vote SC on Wednesday with a short supply of both, “the Associated Press’ Kathleen Ronayne and Julie Bykowicz write”. Bush has been hitting him as an ally of President Barack Obama for expanding Medicaid, something many elected Republicans oppose.

“My parents were killed by a drunk driver, but my parents did not die in vain”, he says in the advertisement, which was slated to start airing Friday in SC.

That state holds its primary March 8 and is a place where a Midwest governor such as Kasich might more easily find support.

Kasich last campaigned in MI in late November, touring a business incubator in Macomb County and holding a fundraiser in downtown Detroit.

That letter got Kasich an invitation to visit the White House, and he spoke with Nixon for 20 minutes in the Oval Office three days before Christmas in 1970.

Speaking in Columbia, he says, “If your legacy is of negative, “I stopped stuff”, what is that?”

There hasn’t been much recent polling in SC, but he stands at 2 percent in the RealClearPolitics average of surveys.

The new ad buy, captured by advertising tracker Kantar Media’s CMAG, boosts Clinton’s total paid media costs to $27.7 million.

“Our country is founded on the family and the family is strong when we work”, he said. Kasich’s 16 percent New Hampshire finish wouldn’t be good enough to nab him a single delegate in any of those states.

John Kasich’s campaign is taking to the airwaves in SC with two television ads displaying different sides of the OH governor.