BREAKING: Kasich’s Finished… Trump Just Took Him Down for the Last Time

We haven’t heard much from Gov. John Kasich since the Ohio governor emerged last week and declared that it was unlikely he would vote for GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. It turns out that his decision did not do much to influence Ohio voters, and it looks as though it didn’t help his political future either.

Breitbart reported that Trump had “seize(d) control of … the ground game” in the swing state, shouldering the state party apparatus aside and effectively taking down Kasich for the last time.

Trump’s victory was secured Tuesday after the Ohio Republican Party released a press statement announcing that the Trump-Pence campaign had opened 32 new “Victory Centers” in the state. The centers will be controlled by Trump-Pence, and that’s significant because Ohio’s “Victory Centers” used to be controlled by the state’s Republican Party.

Until now, Victory Centers were working to get out the vote for Senate candidate Rob Portman but not for Trump. The move resulted from a meeting between Trump and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus in which Trump negotiated for control over the centers.

“Kasich is a non-factor,” said Ohio tea party activist Tom Zawistowski. “There’s nobody here on the ground taking John Kasich seriously at all, that’s just the media driving that. He’s having no effect on people on the ground whatsoever.”

Zawistowski added that Kasich had “angered a lot of people.”

This might be bad news for Kasich, but it was good news for Trump. We can now look forward to not having to listen to another mealy-mouthed “moderate” for a while. Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton wasn’t doing so well in the state either.

“We’re definitely seeing a lot of independents and Democrats coming over” to Trump, Zawistowski said. “All I can give you on that is anecdotal evidence, but it’s more (Democrats voting Republican) than I’ve ever seen.” Share this story on Twitter and Facebook and let us know what you think about John Kasich losing the state of Ohio to Donald Trump.