John Kasich presidential campaign, 2016
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| Campaign | Republican primaries for the U.S. presidential election, 2016 |
| Candidate |
John Kasich Governor of Ohio (2011–present) |
| Affiliation | Republican Party |
| Status | Announced: July 21, 2015 Suspended: May 4, 2016 |
| Headquarters | Cleveland, Ohio |
| Key people | Beth Hansen, campaign manager John Weaver, senior strategist Charlie Black, delegate strategist Matt Carle, Executive director at New Day for America PAC |
| Receipts | US$7,582,364 (2015-12-31) |
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| www.johnkasich.com | |
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.
In 1982, Kasich ran for and was elected the U.S. Representative for Ohio's 12th Congressional District, defeating incumbent Democrat Bob Shamansky, and succeeded him in office on January 3, 1983. After twelve years in Congress, when Republicans took control of Congress in 1994, Kasich was appointed the Chairman of the United States House Committee on the Budget, beginning work at the start of the 104th Congress. As Chairman of the budget committee, Kasich took part in the crafting and passage of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, which led to the first fiscal year without a deficit since 1969.
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