Kasich campaign denies report of Mitt Romney endorsement
Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney speaks critically about current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and the state of the 2016 Republican presidential campaign during a speech at the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, March 3, 2015. (Jim Urquhart/Reuters)
Ohio Gov. John Kasich speaks at the Clark County Republican Party headquarters in Las Vegas on Thursday, June 11, 2015. Kasich is traveling the country before he makes his final decision whether or not to to toss his hat into the Republican presidential race. (David Becker/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney speaks critically about current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and the state of the 2016 Republican presidential campaign during a speech at the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, March 3, 2015. (Jim Urquhart/Reuters)
Ohio Gov. John Kasich speaks at the Clark County Republican Party headquarters in Las Vegas on Thursday, June 11, 2015. Kasich is traveling the country before he makes his final decision whether or not to to toss his hat into the Republican presidential race. (David Becker/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Republican presidential candidate John Kasich’s campaign on Monday denied a report that Mitt Romney, the party’s presidential candidate in 2012, would endorse the Ohio governor on Monday.
A Wall Street Journal reporter said Kasich answered in the affirmative to a question about Romney’s endorsement. Kasich spokesman Chris Schrimpf said, “This is not true. Kasich was responding and acknowledging a different question.”
A Romney endorsement would have provided Kasich with a boost on the eve of Ohio’s primary in which he and front-runner Donald Trump are running a close race for first place.
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