John Kasich 2016 presidential campaign

• Political positions
• Electoral history

• 2000
  • primaries
• 2016
  • primaries
  • endorsements

• Ohio's 12th district
• Balanced Budget Act
• Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act
• Heartland with John Kasich

• 2010 election
• 2014 election

The 2016 presidential campaign of John Kasich, the 69thgovernor of Ohio, was announced on July 21, 2015. He was a candidate for the 2016Republican 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.