John Kasich Thursday doubled down on his barbs against GOP front-runners Donald Trump and Ben Carson, saying their "radical" plans on the economy and immigration aren't the ideas that will work to turn around the nation.
"It is inconceivable we would start to round up 10 or 11 million people to ship them out of the country," the Ohio governor and GOP presidential candidate told
Fox News' "America's Newsroom," referencing Trump's plan on immigration.
"When we start talking [about] shipping 10, 11 million people out of our country, which is impossible to do, breaking up families, that is irresponsible," Kasich continued on the Thursday show. "We add tax schemes, adding trillions of dollars to the debt, saying that we'll grow our way out of it. That doesn't make any sense."
"Of course we need a wall. The idea we'll deport all these people, it's ludicrous. Everybody knows it."
Kasich scored points in Wednesday night's debate, when he made similar comments toward
Carson and Trump, and on Thursday, he didn't let up.
"When we start talking about abolishing Medicare or making it voluntary, that scares the living daylights out of seniors and it's not responsible," said Kasich, of a plan Carson has that he says will give seniors the option of using health savings accounts that will allow them to opt out of Medicare.
He also addressed a dig Trump made on him during the debates, about his history as a managing partner with the bankrupted Lehman Brothers.
"I had a two-man office in Columbus, Ohio," said Kasich.
"If I could have bankrupted Lehman Brothers, I should be named pope, not president. That doesn't bother me in the least. Frankly, the business of working at Lehman and traveling [the] country and Silicon Valley — well, all over the country — taught me an awful lot.
"It gives me confidence to know what to do when I became governor of Ohio, in addition to the experience I had in Washington. We turned Ohio around from a really bad situation into a great, growing state."
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