John Kasich 2016 presidential campaign
The 2016 presidential campaign of John Kasich, the 69th governor of Ohio, was announced on July 21, 2015. He was a candidate for the 2016 Republican Party presidential nomination. He earned 154 delegates and won only one contest, his home state, Ohio. Kasich suspended his campaign on May 4, 2016, one day after becoming the last major challenger to Donald Trump for the nomination. Kasich vied to become the first Pennsylvania native to hold the office since James Buchanan in 1856, as well as the first from the city of Pittsburgh to do so.
John Kasich campaign bus
Kasich speaking at a town hall in New Hampshire
Kasich speaking at Iowa State University in November 2015
Primary eve rally at Robie's Country Store in Hooksett, New Hampshire, on February 8, 2016
John Richard Kasich Jr. is an American politician and author who was the 69th governor of Ohio from 2011 to 2019, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 2001, and a Republican candidate for the presidential nomination in 2000 and 2016.
Official portrait, 2011
Kasich as a congressman in 1985
Official congressional portrait of Kasich as chairman of the House Budget committee
Kasich as chair of the House Budget Committee
