Kasich out?

[slyfox 202]

"Ohio Gov. John Kasich canceled a scheduled press conference Wednesday morning in Washington, D.C., with the campaign saying he would make a statement at 5 p.m. in Columbus. If Kasich suspends his presidential campaign, Donald Trump would be free to cruise to his presumptive GOP nomination unfettered. Trump's victory in Indiana Tuesday night all but sealed the GOP nomination, leading Texas Sen. Ted Cruz to drop out of the race. Still, Kasich, who has won only his home state and has picked up only nine delegates since mid-March, had planned to continue his presidential bid as an alternative to Trump's candidacy. But the pressure to drop out has ratcheted quickly. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus tweeted Tuesday night he considered Trump the "presumptive nominee," indicating the party would gather behind the controversial billionaire in an attempt to beat likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Kasich's event Wednesday was to take place at 10:45 a.m. at Dulles Airport. Dozens of reporters milled around in the lobby of a private aviation terminal waiting, for Kasich to arrive. As 10:45 came and went, rumors began swirling. The Ohio governor had not left Columbus and was meeting with advisers about his future."

 

"INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 4 (Reuters) - Billionaire Donald Trump assumed the mantle of presumptive Republican presidential nominee on Wednesday with a message on unity that also suggested he was not going to work too hard to placate some party establishment figures angered by his outsider candidacy. NBC News reported on Wednesday that Trump's last remaining challenger, Ohio Governor John Kasich, was suspending his campaign after his dismal third place finish in the Midwestern state. There was no immediate word on this from Kasich's campaign, but he canceled a news conference in the Washington area and planned to make a statement at 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT) in Columbus, Ohio. Trump, a former reality television star, who has never held public office, won a commanding victory in Indiana's primary on Tuesday, forcing his main rival, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, to drop out of the race. Trump's win cleared the way him to prepare for a likely match-up in the Nov. 8 general election against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Democratic front-runner Clinton lost the Indiana primary to her tenacious challenger, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, but remains on course to become her party's nominee. The New York businessman's immediate challenge is to mend deep fissures within the Republican Party, easing tensions with party loyalists who are appalled by his bombastic, bullying style, his denigrating comments about women and his proposals to build a wall on the border with Mexico and deport 11 million illegal immigrants. But in a series of Wednesday morning television interviews, Trump, 69, made clear he would not forget some wounds from a tumultuous primary campaign in which many establishment Republicans rejected him and spawned Stop Trump and Never Trump movements. "I am confident that I can unite much of it, some of it I don't want," Trump said on NBC's "Today" show. "Honestly, there are some people I really don't want. People will be voting for me. They're not voting for the party." Since launching his White House bid last summer as a longshot amid a crowded field that included governors, former governors and U.S. senators, the real estate magnate repeatedly defied predictions that his campaign would implode. He prevailed over rivals he derided as "grown politicians," despite making provocative statements along the way that drew sometimes furious criticism from many in the party but fed his anti-establishment appeal. Trump also directed fire at Clinton, telling MSNBC, "She is a disaster, and she will be a disaster as president." With his nomination all but assured, Trump is looking for a running mate. He said on ABC he would choose a Republican, most likely an elected official with political experience. "I'm considering a lot of people," Trump told Fox News. Trump's victory in Indiana and Cruz's withdrawal means he now looks to have a clear path to be formally nominated as the Republican candidate at the party convention in July, rather than battling for the prize at a contested convention. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus called Trump the party's presumptive nominee in a tweet and said, "We all need to unite and focus" on defeating Clinton. 'BATTLE FOR THE SOUL' OF THE PARTY In an interview Wednesday, Priebus acknowledged achieving Republican unity would be difficult. "It's going to take some time but we're going to get there," he said on CNN. Bill Kristol, the neoconservative editor of the Weekly Standard, said on Twitter, "The battle for the 2016 GOP nomination is over. The battle for the soul of the Republican Party (or its successor) has just begun." Support for Trump among Republicans nationally jumped in recent weeks to the highest level of the primary campaign, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling. A recent poll found Trump with the support of 53 percent of Republican participants, well above Cruz at 25 percent. Kasich had 16 percent. In a potential general election match-up, however, Clinton led Trump by about 10 percentage points among likely voters. The poll included 623 Democrats and 556 Republicans and had a credibility interval of 5 percentage points. As the primary returns flowed, Cruz announced he had ended his campaign in Indianapolis. The senator from Texas, 45, sounding beaten but defiant, said he no longer saw a viable path to the nomination. "We gave it everything we got. But the voters chose another path, and so with a heavy heart, but with boundless optimism for the long-term future of our nation, we are suspending our campaign," said Cruz, who is from the party's conservative Tea Party movement. Cruz's exit came as a surprise, and many Republicans who had denounced Trump were grappling with what to do next. Reuters/Ipsos polling in April found Cruz supporters split on whom to support if their candidate quit. Lanhee Chen, who had advised former Republican candidate Marco Rubio, on Tuesday night floated the possibility of a third-party candidate. "Tonight's outcome raises seriousness & urgency of discussions about third-party alternative; how real it is depends on who steps up to run," he tweeted. Other prominent Republicans said they would support Trump. "It's binary now. It's Trump or Clinton, my vote's for Trump," former Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who dropped his own White House bid in November, said on Fox News. (Additional reporting by Steve Holland and Megan Casella, Susan Heavey, Doina Chiacu in Washington, and Chris Kahn in New York; Writing by Doina Chiacu and Steve Holland; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe and Frances Kerry) "

 

No. Not my baby Kasich.  I mean he could be doing other things for announcements, right? Maybe a VP? Not dropping out? maybe he will be trump's vp xd

 

Why the hell would the GOP approve of this? They HATE Trump... and Kasich is the only person with high enough ratings on the polls to beat Hillary?  Won't he get Cruz's Delegates? 

 

http://www.businessinsider.com/john-kasich-dropping-out-report-2016-5

 

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/05/04/will-john-kasich-drop-out-of-presidential-race-donald-trump/83919488/

 

Very new things here, the story could develop further. 

[Ironic 2278]

Guess everyone better be prepared to add in "Hail Trump!" at the end of the pledge.

[Drew Brees 55]

But..all the free food.