Kasich: More Republicans Should Stand Up to Trump

Ohio Gov. John Kasich said more Republicans should be willing to stand up to President Donald Trump.

“It’s been pretty lonely out here. Not that I mind walking a lonely road, I’ve done it most of my career, but always would be good if you had more people who are willing to stand up and say that’s the wrong direction,” Kasich said in an interview published Friday in The Guardian.

Kasich, who ran for the Republican nomination in 2016, said that he became a critic of Trump because of “political principle.”

“Most of the people have been upset with (Trump), and then endorse him and then they get upset with him. I just have not operated that way. I did not feel public pressure to have to go and support somebody that I was not convinced was going to pull the country together,” Kasich said.

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