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Kasich: 'No Way I Would Team Up With Trump'
Tuesday, March 15, 2016 09:25 AM
By: Sandy Fitzgerald
Ben Carson and Chris Christie may have joined forces with Donald Trump after their own presidential campaigns ended, but Ohio Gov. John Kasich said Tuesday there's "no way" he'd team up with him, and he plans to become the GOP presidential nominee himself.
"There's no way I would team up with Donald Trump," Kasich told Fox News' Brian Kilmeade on the "Fox & Friends" program.
"No way. Forget it. I'm going to be the nominee because we're going to win Ohio. We're going to move across this country with the positive attitude of bringing people together."
Kasich said he's had a great record in Washington as a U.S. Representative and in Ohio as governor, and he's got a "positive record of bringing people together, and we're Americans before anything else. We'll fix these things that haunt us and bother us today."
A new Monmouth poll puts Kasich up by 5 points over Trump in Ohio, Kilmeade said, and the winner of Ohio's primary election, being held Tuesday, would take all of Ohio's 66 delegates.
And while Trump has criticized Kasich on his support of free trade and more, the governor told Kilmeade that Ohio is one of the fastest-growing states in the nation.
"We're up over 400,000 jobs," said Kasich. "We're running a $2 billion surplus. Our pensions are strong. Our credit is strong. I have cut taxes by more than any governor in the United States. Come on. We're doing very well here."
