Kasich’s book release and book tour thread UPDATE: Kasich on The Daily Show

[Mr. Morden]

Kasich’s book comes on on Tuesday, and so he’s doing a book tour this week, which potentially doubles as testing the waters on 2020.  Post any comments you have on the book in this thread, including anything interesting that comes out of the book tour.

Here he is on Face the Nation this morning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25-ieoZnQi0

And his upcoming schedule:

http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170420/john-kasichs-extensive-upcoming-travels-officially-book-tour-not-presidential-campaign

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etc.  They list other stops as well, but I don’t want to quote the whole article.

As for the book itself, some discussion of that here:

http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/ohio/10-things-john-kasichs-book-says-about-donald-trump-and-a-few-other-people/433506282

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[Mr. Morden]

Here's the full video of his interview on The Daily Show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qw3Lhc_zt8

[Mr. Morden]

Kasich on the PBS Newshour:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qldynp1hX8

And here's a Buzzfeed News story on whether Kasich might be "done" with the Republican Party:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/henrygomez/john-kasich-sounds-like-hes-over-the-republican-party?utm_term=.mpkrx1Rpl#.kkKv9LoN7

[Mr. Morden]

I wish he ran third part in 2016, I believe he could have thrown the election to the house and then he would have won.

lol

Kasich is elected in the house

If Kasich is doing so well that he's managing to win Ohio and Utah, then he's presumably doing well enough to peel off Republican votes in other states, such that he'd tip states like Florida and Arizona to Clinton, giving her an electoral college majority.  And why would Trump win NV and NH?  I don't actually imagine that Kasich would be drawing more votes from Clinton than he would from Trump.....Unless he really runs left in the campaign, in which case, why would the Republican House of Representatives elect him?

And even if there was an electoral college deadlock, no way is Kasich going to get a majority there if he's not the Republican nominee.  Best he could manage would be to create a deadlock in the House where no one has a majority.  Then the Senate elects Pence as VP, and we get Acting President Mike Pence.  Or, alternatively, maybe there's a movement among Republican electors to pick a compromise candidate, who is neither Trump nor Kasich.  But no way is Kasich going to get an outright majority of either presidential electors or Republicans in the House, after just having left the party to run as an Indy.