Kasich is expected to officially enter the race this summer. He has traveled to the early primary states of New Hampshire, South Carolina and Georgia, while avoiding any campaign trips to Iowa, whose caucuses next January will be the first presidential contest.
Kasich also took time to praise Vice President Joe Biden, whose son Beau, 46, died Saturday night of brain cancer. Pointing out that Biden’s first wife and infant daughter were killed in a car crash in 1972, Kasich said he does not “always agree with him, but you know Joe Biden is a special guy.”
‘You think about this: He lost a wife, a daughter and now a son and he continues to serve,” Kasich said, calling Biden “a real stand-up guy. I’m going to pray for him because he’s had a lifetime of tears.”
Kasich served in the U.S. House when Biden was a Democratic senator from Delaware.
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