Last Republican Trump's rival 'quits race'

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Ohio Governor John Kasich has dropped out of the presidential race after struggling to gain traction against front-runner Donald Trump.
Mr Kasich did not have a path to secure the nomination outright, but pledged to lobby for his candidacy during the Republican convention in July.
Mr Trump holds a commanding lead and is closing in on the nomination.
Despite being a popular governor, Kasich only won his home state.

teh! teh! wote sasa wametoka balu, sasa uwanja ni wa trump pekee

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John Kasich, last Republican Trump rival, 'quits race'

Republican road to the White House

Ohio Governor John Kasich has dropped out of the presidential race after struggling to gain traction against Republican front-runner Donald Trump, US media report.

Mr Kasich did not have a path to secure the nomination outright, but pledged to lobby for his candidacy during the Republican convention in July.

Mr Trump holds a commanding lead and is closing in on the nomination.

Despite being a popular governor, Kasich only won his home state.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz dropped out of the race on Tuesday after losing to Mr Trump in the Indiana primary.

Mr Kasich cancelled events in Washington and announced an evening event in his home state on Wednesday.

Earlier on Wednesday, he released a Star-Wars themed advert describing himself as the "only hope" against Donald Trump.

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Mr Kasich had been widely seen as the most moderate and electable Republican candidate and polled well against Mr Trump, but that did not garner him enough support among Republican voters.


He promoted an optimistic message while campaigning, shunning negative attacks against other candidates.

Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who dropped out in March, garnered more delegates than him during primary elections.

Analysis - Anthony Zurcher, BBC North America reporter
The race for the Republican presidential nomination has taken more than a year to unfold, but in a flash it is over.

Ted Cruz's withdrawal from the race Tuesday night meant John Kasich's long-shot path to the nomination - deadlocked delegates in a contested convention turning to him as a compromise candidate - was definitively closed. The Ohio governor, once thought to be the saviour of the moderate, establishment wing of the Republican Party, could have soldiered on, but with little money and no hope of winning, such a course bordered on the absurd.

Although Mr Trump had effectively sewn up the nomination regardless of what Mr Kasich decided to do, his withdrawal does have one benefit. Now the New York businessman will not have to make even pro forma campaign stops in California, which holds its primary on 6 June.

Just last week the front-runner faced massive protests while attending the state's Republican convention. California looked to be a powder keg for Mr Trump in the coming weeks. Thanks to Mr Kasich, it has been defused.

Ted Cruz and John Kasich had announced an alliance to stop Donald Trump and "to ensure that we nominate a Republican who can unify the Republican Party and win in November" prior to the Indiana, New Mexico and Oregon state primaries, but that quickly crumbled.

Republicans are now divided over whether to support Mr Trump as the Republican nominee.

Trump nomination divides Republicans

"If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed... and we will deserve it," South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham said on Tuesday.

Mr Kasich's named has been floated as a possible vice presidential pick but he has denied that he would accept a nomination.

Source: BBC
 
Gavana wa Ohio John Kasich anatarajiwa kutangaza kusitisha kampeni zake za kuwa mgombea urais wa GOP .

Hii inamaana kwamba Donald Trump anabakia mgombea pekee kuelekea July Convention baada ya leo mapema Sen.Ted Cruz kuchukua hatua kama hiyo baada ya kushindwa vibaya jimbo la Indiana.

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John Kasich to quit Republican race, leaving Trump last man standing

Resistance to Donald Trump’s capture of the Republican party was crumbling on Wednesday as even his sole remaining opponent appeared to concede there was no chance of preventing him becoming the party’s presidential nominee.

In chaotic scenes just hours after Trump’s landslide win in the Indiana primary essentially sealed the nomination race, Ohio governor John Kasich cancelled a planned press conference outside Washington DC and prepared what is widely expected to be a concession statement in his home state.

The Associated Press, New York Times, NBC and Politico all reported he planned to suspend his campaign on Tuesday.

In a message to the media, his campaign wrote: “Today’s press gaggle in Dulles has been cancelled. Governor Kasich will deliver a statement in Columbus at 5PM EDT today – location TBD.”

Once confirmed, his decision to suspend his campaign will mark the formal end of the most extraordinary race for the Republican presidential nomination in modern political history and leave Trump with only the Democratic nominee in November standing between him and the White House.

Campaign staff at the cancelled Kasich event at a private jet terminal in Dulles, Virginia, would not confirm for definite what their candidate would say in Columbus, but made clear it was a “statement” rather than another press conference.

In a statement, a spokesperson for the Ohio Democratic party said: “Since last March, Governor John Kasich has spent more than 200 days out of state, pursuing his presidential ambitions and ignoring the needs of the people of Ohio ... It’s time that Ohio had a governor who was actually doing something about all of that, rather than gallivanting across the country.

“In addition, we hope that the Kasich administration will provide a full accounting of the cost to Ohio taxpayers and Kasich’s campaign will reimburse the state for every single penny that his failed campaign cost the taxpayers of Ohio.”

Kasich spent 18 years in Congress, including six years as chairman of the powerful House Budget Committee, before leaving government temporarily to work as a regional director for failed investment bank Lehman Brothers. Kasich was elected governor of Ohio in 2010 in a close race with an incumbent Democrat and enjoyed home-state popularity measured at record levels in 2015, with 62% of Ohio voters approving of his job performance.

On the stump, Kasich pointed to his crafting of a 1997 balanced budget deal, his work on the House Armed Services Committee and dropping unemployment in Ohio as qualifications for the top office. He was viewed with skepticism by some conservatives, however, for participating as a governor in the expansion of state-funded health care under Barack Obama’s 2010 law.

Some senior Republican officials saw something else they liked: the contrast that Kasich, a methodical centrist with a long track record, drew with Trump and with Texas senator Ted Cruz, who dropped out of the race after his loss in Indiana on Tuesday night. But he failed to gain traction in a year dominated by Trump’s unorthodox candidacy.

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The Guardian - UK
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John Kasich to quit Republican race, leaving Trump last man standing

Resistance to Donald Trump’s capture of the Republican party was crumbling on Wednesday as even his sole remaining opponent appeared to concede there was no chance of preventing him becoming the party’s presidential nominee.

In chaotic scenes just hours after Trump’s landslide win in the Indiana primary essentially sealed the nomination race, Ohio governor John Kasich cancelled a planned press conference outside Washington DC and prepared what is widely expected to be a concession statement in his home state.

The Associated Press, New York Times, NBC and Politico all reported he planned to suspend his campaign on Tuesday.

In a message to the media, his campaign wrote: “Today’s press gaggle in Dulles has been cancelled. Governor Kasich will deliver a statement in Columbus at 5PM EDT today – location TBD.”

Once confirmed, his decision to suspend his campaign will mark the formal end of the most extraordinary race for the Republican presidential nomination in modern political history and leave Trump with only the Democratic nominee in November standing between him and the White House.

Campaign staff at the cancelled Kasich event at a private jet terminal in Dulles, Virginia, would not confirm for definite what their candidate would say in Columbus, but made clear it was a “statement” rather than another press conference.

In a statement, a spokesperson for the Ohio Democratic party said: “Since last March, Governor John Kasich has spent more than 200 days out of state, pursuing his presidential ambitions and ignoring the needs of the people of Ohio ... It’s time that Ohio had a governor who was actually doing something about all of that, rather than gallivanting across the country.

“In addition, we hope that the Kasich administration will provide a full accounting of the cost to Ohio taxpayers and Kasich’s campaign will reimburse the state for every single penny that his failed campaign cost the taxpayers of Ohio.”

Kasich spent 18 years in Congress, including six years as chairman of the powerful House Budget Committee, before leaving government temporarily to work as a regional director for failed investment bank Lehman Brothers. Kasich was elected governor of Ohio in 2010 in a close race with an incumbent Democrat and enjoyed home-state popularity measured at record levels in 2015, with 62% of Ohio voters approving of his job performance.

On the stump, Kasich pointed to his crafting of a 1997 balanced budget deal, his work on the House Armed Services Committee and dropping unemployment in Ohio as qualifications for the top office. He was viewed with skepticism by some conservatives, however, for participating as a governor in the expansion of state-funded health care under Barack Obama’s 2010 law.

Some senior Republican officials saw something else they liked: the contrast that Kasich, a methodical centrist with a long track record, drew with Trump and with Texas senator Ted Cruz, who dropped out of the race after his loss in Indiana on Tuesday night. But he failed to gain traction in a year dominated by Trump’s unorthodox candidacy.

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The Guardian - UK
 
Republican party Establishment should now come to their senses and succumb to the reality that Republican's delegate and members at a large are of view that Donald Trump is their choice and are not ready to be fed on other scrubs.
It now or never that they should unite and have a common war front if they have a solid plans of taking the Oval office from Democrats. All aspirants plus recent dropouts should in the gentlemen manner and for the benefit of the party ( which is the member's property) to drop their guards and join hands with Mr Trump with only one focus of defeating the Democrats nominee for November Presidential election. Republicans internal warring factions would only be an advantageous to Democrats in returning back into the Oval office.
 
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