John Kasich says Trump is lucky Jon Stewart left The Daily Show

Kasich says Trump should be glad Jon Stewart is not on the air.
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GOP frontrunner Donald Trump should be happy about former Daily Show host Jon Stewart's decision to step down last year, Ohio Gov. John Kasich said on Thursday.

"I mean, [Trump's campaign is] a panoply of mistakes and outrageous statements. You know what it is with Donald? It's just a stream of consciousness," he commented during an interview on ABC News, adding that it's not appropriate for a would-be president to "operate like this."

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Bonnie Kristian

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.