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John Kasich

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John Kasich is a Republican politician who served as the 69th Governor of Ohio from January 10, 2011, to January 14, 2019. Prior to his governorship, he was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 2001, representing Ohio's 12th congressional district. During his time as governor, Kasich focused on issues such as Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act, education reform, and economic development. He is known for his moderate stance within the Republican Party and his willingness to work across party lines on various issues.

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Apr 3, 2016

Spending time talking about Donald Trump's personal life, no thank you. I don't want to talk about people's personal life. Forget it.

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Apr 3, 2016

Oh yeah. Well, no, he's senator, you know, he is Senator Smear. He smeared Ben Carson, he smeared Marco Rubio, he smeared Donald Trump, and now he's smearing me.

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Apr 3, 2016

Well, both of them said that I'm taking their votes from their voters. I mean, one guy asked me today, he said, 'Well, Trump says you're taking his voters and Cruz says you're taking his voters, how can you be taking both?'

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Mar 31, 2016

His record is shutting down the record and making everybody he works with upset.

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Mar 31, 2016

The problem for him with town halls, he has to actually answer questions in a specific way.

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Mar 30, 2016

When you are the president, you work for the people. It's a very different thing, OK?

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Mar 30, 2016

I expanded Medicaid and over 3,000 people now -- women now have health care who didn't before.

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Mar 30, 2016

I am a little disturbed by when I heard the use of the word lie over and over.

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Mar 29, 2016

But we're going to have a religious test on who comes in the country. So when you come in country, I say, 'Are you a Muslim? Raise your hand if you're Muslim.' I mean come on, Anderson. That's not going to work.

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Mar 29, 2016

You know, frankly, we all of us shouldn't have answered that question, but it was the first debate and, you know, what the heck.

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Mar 28, 2016

I have more experience than really all of them put together except for Mrs. Clinton.

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Mar 28, 2016

I think that can pass. I think that can pass the United States Congress. And I think it can pass with the American people and get this issue behind us and get this thing healed.

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Mar 28, 2016

We want Muslims who go to mosques who see radicalization to tell the authorities about it.

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Mar 28, 2016

And thirdly, if they came here illegally but they've not committed a crime since they've been here, they'll pay a fine, back taxes, and they can have a path to legalization, not a path to citizenship.

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Mar 28, 2016

I took a Medicaid program that was growing at 10 1/2 percent, and in my second year as governor it grew at 2 1/2 percent.

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Mar 28, 2016

And secondly, we should have a guest worker program where people can come in and work, and then they can go back home, because that's what they want to do.

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Mar 28, 2016

Destroy ISIS, that's a given, and then after that great intelligence to make sure we can thwart these attacks and get the Europeans to start, you know, paying attention and doing their job.

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Mar 28, 2016

So you kind of go to a baseball game, and you don't come home?

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Mar 28, 2016

The president of the United States -- the first thing he did is he wouldn't meet with our friend Netanyahu.

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Mar 28, 2016

We need to go after ISIS in a coalition like we had in the first Gulf War.

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Mar 28, 2016

Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, the Gulf states, they all know it's an existential threat.

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