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Ohio Governor John Kasich was one of the last two holdouts against Donald Trump during the 2016 GOP primaries and since then, he has become a go-to for the liberal media when they need a never-Trump Republican to bash the President. He has also become a name the liberal media love to throw around as a contender to knock out Trump in 2020. During an appearance on ABC’s This Week, Sunday, Kasich wanted advice from host and Clinton lackey George Stephanopoulos on a possible third-party run.
After Kasich said the American people want and deserve a better form of politics, Stephanopoulos wanted his guest to elaborate. “Does ‘better’ mean working across party lines,” Stephanopoulos wondered. “You talked earlier about this possibility about maybe running on a bipartisan ticket, including with perhaps former Governor John Hickenlooper of Colorado. Is that something that's truly viable? And is that what you think Americans are looking for?”
Kasich responded by declaring that he didn’t know the answer to that important question. The outgoing governor then began asking Stephanopoulos questions about if he thought a “legitimate opportunity for a third party” candidate existed and wanted to talk with him about it off the air.
“Let's say that Donald Trump is nominated and Elizabeth Warren is nominated and you have this ocean of people who sit in the middle,” he prefaced. “Is there a legitimate opportunity for a third party, bipartisan kind of ticket to be able to score a victory or have a profound impact on the future of American politics? That would be something I would talk to you about offline and get your view, because we don’t know at this point.”
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