Larry Elder: John Kasich -- and Fellow Republican 'Never Trumpers'

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John Kasich -- and Fellow Republican 'Never Trumpers'

Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio, just announced his decision.

For his presidential vote on a mail-in ballot, he wrote in the failed 2008 Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. Apparently, Kasich found Wendell Willkie too difficult to spell.

For the umpteenth time, Donald Trump, out of 2016's 17 Republican candidates, placed 20th on my list. He is a populist -- not a fiscal conservative -- with an assortment of views, some conservative, many centrist and even liberal. Has there ever been such a blatantly protectionist modern Republican candidate? Has any former Republican presidential candidate ever promised six weeks of paid family leave? One expects his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, to say nothing about reforming entitlement programs that even President Barack Obama called "unsustainable." But Trump offers no plan for reforms, blithely asserting that we can grow our way out of debt.

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