John Kasich hopes Donald Trump is 'going to be a unifier'

Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio)
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Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio) openly criticized fellow Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump on ABC's This Week, but he won't say whether he'd vote for the real estate mogul should he become the party's nominee.

"I've been listening to him lately, and you notice he's toned down the rhetoric,” Kasich said Sunday. "I'm just hoping that as we go forward he's going to be a unifier."

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.