Ohio Gov. John Kasich got testy with Fox News anchor Bret Baier on Monday when questioned about his ability to win the GOP presidential nomination, saying Baier and others are paying attention to the wrong polls.
Baier pointed out this is an anti-establishment year with voters angry at Washington.
"I don't agree with that," Kasich said.
"You don't look at all the exit polls?" Baier asked.
Kasich said if he had looked at such polls he would never have run.
When Baier pointed out Kasich has only won his home state of Ohio, Kasich insisted, "Yes, but we're competing and we're rising."
The polls that should be looked at are the ones that show him as the Republican best able to beat Hillary Clinton in November, he said.
Baier was skeptical of Kasich's plan to win a contested convention where neither businessman Donald Trump nor Texas Sen. Ted Cruz win enough delegates on a first vote.
"What happens to the Trump people?" Baier asked. "They evaporate?"
Kasich insisted he can win enough Trump delegates to switch to him and give him the nomination.
Baier confronted Kasich on a TV ad in Utah showing 2012 nominee Mitt Romney backing him. But Romney is running an anti-Trump strategy, and while he did support Kasich in Ohio,
he supports Cruz in Utah.
"This shows you how ridiculous this is," Kasich said. "A week earlier, he was out in Ohio, he was out saying that I had the best record. I mean, all we're doing is using his words, Bret. I mean, how do you switch?"
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