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John Kasich says if he loses Ohio, he will halt campaign

Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Feb 27 19:12:30 2016, in response to New York Times endorses John Kasich, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jan 30 14:07:42 2016.

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Kasich: I'll drop out if I lose Ohio

By Harper Neidig
February 27, 2016, 04:47 pm

Republican presidential hopeful John Kasich said on Saturday that he will drop out of the race if he doesn't win his home state of Ohio.

"I will beat Donald Trump in Ohio, and that will be the beginning of a new day," Kasich told a crowd in Nashville, according to the New York Times.

"Some of the other candidates, if they can't win their home state, they got to get out, OK?" he added. "If I don't win my home state, I'll get out. But you know what? I'm going to win Ohio."

The remark was a dig at his rival Marco Rubio, who is trailing Trump by 16 points in his home state of Florida, according to a recent Quinnipiac University poll.

Ohio goes to the polls on March 15. Another Quinnipiac poll puts Trump ahead of Kasich in Ohio by 5 percentage points, just outside the poll's margin of error, but the governor has insisted that he will have no problem winning the state.

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