Mary Taylor, Ohio’s Lieutenant Governor who is running this year to replace a term limited John Kasich was kind of pissed off after Kasich endorsed her. Taylor claims that Kasich endorsed her GOP primary opponents Jon Husted and Mike DeWine, when in fact Kasich endorsed Taylor. That’s how toxic idiot John Kasich has become in Ohio. No one wants his endorsement. And who could blame them? If i was running in Ohio as a Republican, I wouldn’t want mush-mouth Kasich’s endorsement either.
| No one wants John Kasich’s endorsement, not even Ohio Lt. Gov Mary Taylor |
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One of the major selling points being pitched by John Kasich during his bid for the presidency in 2016 was that he could deliver Ohio for the GOP in what was expected to be a tight race. (Trump wound up winning it by almost ten points and nearly half a million votes anyway.) But is he really all that popular back home in the Buckeye State? They’re electing his replacement as Governor this year (Kasich is term limited) and there are plenty of hopefuls trying for his job. The Governor, in a probably not terribly surprising move, has endorsed his own Lt. Governor, Mary Taylor to replace him.
I get the feeling that this isn’t going to be a problem for Taylor much longer. Now that this story is making the rounds all over Ohio, the Governor is probably reconsidering his endorsement. And he wouldn’t be doing anything too unusual if he decided to switch up and back Mike DeWine and Jon Husted. Both of them are long time party regulars with good name recognition in Ohio and, at least among politicos, decent recognition nationally. That’s particularly true of DeWine, who has been at the center of any number of legal challenges over voter registration and state voting laws.