Ohio Gov. John Kasich is 16th notable entry into GOP race

John Kasich is not nearly as well-known as other Republican presidential candidates.

A Washington Post-ABC News poll showed Mr Trump ahead of the field with 24 per cent support against 13 per cent for his nearest rival, Scott Walker, the Governor of Wisconsin. We are excited to have somebody like the Governor running for the Presidency. Kasich, 63, launched his campaign before a crowd of 2,000 at an event marking the entry of a strong-willed and sometimes abrasive governor in a nomination race now with 16 notable Republicans. NPR reported Kasich first ran in the 2000 presidential race, saying he was “a little fresher than a lot of the politicians today”. It’s kind of hard to win a presidential campaign when people don’t really know who you are, you know?

The Associated Press reports that Kasich is considered more moderate than the rest of the crowded GOP field, but is not well-known among voters.

He spoke without a teleprompter and talked about his roots.

Kasich said America gets through such crises by standing together “with our eyes on the horizon”. He requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.

The commissioners also acknowledged the start of the Southern Ohio Veterans Memorial Highway under the Kasich administration.

During his time of governor in swing-state Ohio, he has helped erase an $8 billion budget deficit and boost the state’s so-called “rainy day fund” to historic levels. They argue he got Ohio out of a budget hole by cutting city and school funding.

Kasich enters the race with a history of being a fiscal conservative going back to being the lead figure in balancing the federal budget in the 1990s, but also departing from the GOP on the issue of Medicaid expansion and support for the controversial Common Core education standards.

In 1997, he pushed a bipartisan effort to balance the national budget, which created the first budget surplus in 29 years. The state twice went for President Barack Obama.

He’s largely lived up to that, at least so far. “What is she talking about?” “I think the country’s America”.

In recent months, he’s made trips to New Hampshire, South Carolina, Iowa, New York and Michigan, and will be returning to early voting states.

Mr Kasich was born in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, as the grandson of Hungarian, Czech and Croatian immigrants.

Just because Kasich’s from a state that routinely has a hometown rep in the Oval Office doesn’t mean Kasich’s an ordinary guy.

He became the youngest person to be elected to the Ohio Senate in 1978 at the age of 26.

He said he believes in bold ideas and after being told he couldn’t do what he dreamed, he turned that into a “can-do” attitude, which has been his philosophy for Kasich during his career.