Cleveland, OH. -- Cleveland is in the spotlight this week and its own governor decided to skip out on the biggest event of them all -- the Republican National Convention
Ohio Governor John Kasich is miles away from the convention venue held at the Quicken Loans Arena, holding multiple events with state delegations at hotels, headlining a state party reception, and speaking at the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce at the same time delegates conducted their states roll call vote to make Donald Trump's nomination official.
In his mid-afternoon event, Kasich held a reception where over 1,500 Ohioans gathered at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The party scenery was pictured like a major victory -- jumbotron playing pictures of the campaign trail, loud classic rock music, drinks and cake pops.
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Two months ago, Kasich became the last GOP candidate to drop out, making Trump the presumptive nominee. If he would have gone forward, Kasich told the crowd he would have told voters things that weren't true.
"We hear a lot about negative and division and polarization," Kasich said. "Let me tell you. I’ve never been more satisfied professionally. We left the race abruptly. And the reason why we did is that I became convinced, that in one way or another, to go forward I would have to tell people things that I didn’t think were true."
The party was thrown to celebrate and thank Ohioans for their work they did on his failed presidential bid.
“I asked for this to be done so I could have an opportunity to thank you all for your work,” Kasich told the crowd. “I can’t thank you enough for everything you’ve done.”
During his short seven minute remarks, Kasich avoided mentioning the GOP nominee, instead using his past campaign stump speech of positivity and unity to contrast the difference between himself and his former
“People donated because they liked what I said and I was honest. You have to be honest with people — that’s how you do it as a candidate.”
In the same video, Kasich uses another fallacy, the straw man fallacy. According to informationisbeautiful.net, is a fallacy that is “creating a distorted or simplified caricature of your opponent’s argument, and then arguing against that.” In the video, Kasich talks about his views on how he would handle health care and the poor, “Because we want to stabilize health care and make sure poor people have something, people assume there’s a motive. Sometimes, people do things because they actually want to help somebody. When we do that, everybody says, ‘Well, what’s in it for them’” (7:23). Kasich makes the opposing side’s argument into a basic concept which can be easily argued against. He also makes the opposing side’s argument into something people could easily disagree with.
On March 15, Marco Rubio was embarrassingly destroyed in his home state’s Presidential Primary against Donald Trump, 46%-27%. After that, he decided to drop out of the race, and has still yet to actually endorse Mr. Trump. With Rep. David Jolly and Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera floundering in the campaign, the Republican Party started pushing Marco Rubio to reverse his decision and run re-election because he would be a much better candidate.
"That'll be up to the voters here,” Kasich said. "I’m not going to get into that. That's too much below the belt."
The Republican Convention was held in support to reelect Republican Candidates President Bush and Vice President Quayle. There was an extremely large audience in support of the Republican campaign. Reagan was overwhelmed by the amount of applause and cheering from the audience. In fact, balloons, posters, and flags were everywhere displaying the pride of the nation and the Republican Party. The
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This all appeared to the emotions of the audience to be pumped up about this inauguration, and it worked very
After a crushing defeat in Tuesday 's Indiana primary, Texas Senator Ted Cruz ended his presidential bid, clearing the way for GOP front-runner to become the presumptive nominee.
Kasich acknowledged that he won't win in Trump's home territory, but hopes to pick up some delegates to add on his long-shot bid. "Here in New York we are running in second now," Kasich said. "In Maryland we are now running in second and in Pennsylvania, I haven't seen anything lately, but the last thing I saw had us in a virtual tie for first place."
Campaigning in two stops on Long Island, a island with a majority of Republican voters, Kasich is taking part in two town hall meetings, one in the morning at Hofstra University in Hempstead and one in the evening at The Paramount in Huntington. With the Wisconsin primary a day away, Kasich has decided to turn his attention to New York where 95 delegates are up for grabs.
Establishment Republicans are not sniggering at Donald Trump’s antics anymore, especially as he threatens to go solo in November if party insiders scheme to deny him the nomination. Echoes of similarly irate conservative Teddy Roosevelt and his “Bull Moose” party sinking the Republican (GOP) national campaign in 1912 get louder every time Trump wins a primary state. After the real estate mogul announced his candidacy in June last year, party leaders contentedly sat back in the peanut gallery ridiculing his naked attempts at demagoguery. Later, they dismissed Trump’s surging poll numbers as an electoral blip sparked by fringe sections of the party base that loathed the GOP’s handling of Congress.
The only credibility threat that was directly addressed was when he stated that "he has no more campaigns to run for, so he was buckling down," then the Republicans all led a rousing, standing, applause, and he addressed them with a quick comment of ,"I won all of mine." Showing his competitiveness and was his way of directly addressing a public
On the front runner Donald Trump, a candidate he has criticized a lot during his short lived presidential bid and after when endorsing Jeb Bush. “Donald, I don’t think he understands what makes America great,” Graham said in a more serious tone while urging reporters to ask Trump harder questions. “Our party and our country is going to have to step up its game.”
Senator Cruz has done very poorly and after his New York performance, which was a total disaster, he is in free fall and as everyone has seen, he does not react well under pressure. Also, approximately 80% of the Republican Party is against him. Governor Kasich, who has only won 1 state out of 41, in other words, he is 1 for 41 and he is not even doing as well as other candidates who could have stubbornly stayed in the race like him but chose not to do so. Marco Rubio, as an example, has more delegates than Kasich and yet suspended his campaign one
During the Values Voters Summit in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence appeared before a largely evangelical group at the Voters Summit in Washington, D.C. His promise to help Trump restrict abortion rights and appoint right-wing Supreme Court justices drew loud applause from the audience, Mother Jones reports.