Michigan Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof endorses John Kasich for president

“A lot of emphasis goes on the first four states, but Michigan is right after that, and so if you’re not prepared to be organized in the states after the first four primaries, you really can’t win this race”.

Kevin Madden, who worked for GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign, said the Republican field is expanding the base, despite some of the high-profile missteps. John Kasich, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina and Kentucky Sen. I promise you, I am a fearless fighter. And while he spent more than four hours at the Iowa State Fair last month, he had yet to experience a continuous stream of fanfare like he saw on Saturday, where he was given rock star treatment from the crushing mob of people for more than 70 minutes.

“We have come to a pivotal point in our nation’s history where the potential of too many Americans is being crushed by the weight, power, cost and ineptitude of federal government and a professional political class who refuses to do anything about it”, she said. Rand Paul, R-Ky., addresses the 2016 Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference, Saturday, September 19, 2015, in Mackinac Island, Mich.

The governor announced his Relentless Positive Action PAC Saturday on Mackinac Island, where Republicans are gathering for a conference that features speeches from six presidential candidates. “I consider Michigan absolutely vital on the road to the White House”, Kasich said. “His problem is he’s a progressive liberal that tears down anyone that disagrees with him”.

At a conference in Mackinac Island’s historic Grand Hotel, Bush told about 2,000 Michigan Republicans: “I will never violate my conservative principles”. He says Kasich is a “Midwestern guy” who knows Michigan isn’t “flyover country”.

He said the US should move to a flat tax that would allow all Americans to file their income tax returns on post cards. “He is in the best position to defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016”.

Front-runner Donald Trump declined to correct a town hall participant who wrongly said President Barack Obama was a Muslim. “What Washington wants, what the Washington establishment wants, is to divide us”. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports the Republican presidential candidate is staying in Iowa after canceling campaign stops in Michigan this weekend.

He says the goal is to recruit and finance candidates who share his views on paying down debt, education, and building infrastructure.