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.
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.
The strategy is to run in just a few states enough to dead lock the electoral college.
