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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