Nix the VP rumors: Kasich says he will not team up with Trump

John Kasich rejects the idea of teaming up with Donald Trump.

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last updated 15 March 2016

Ohio Gov. John Kasich has been proposed as Donald Trump's running mate for months, as the two have rarely tangled and the combo would be "a marriage between a brazen outsider and a member of the GOP establishment."

But Kasich himself is totally uninterested in the plan. "There's no way I would team up with Donald Trump," he said in an interview with Fox and Friends on Tuesday. "No way. Forget it." His comments recall previous remarks in which Kasich rejected the veep slot altogether.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.

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