Kasich to Make Appearances in Hudson Valley Saturday

NEW ROCHELLE, NY - Ohio Governor John Kasich is bringing the Republican race for the presidential nominee to Westchester and Rockland counties Saturday.

He will be appearing at a “Town Hall” event at Iona College in New Rochelle.

According to the Kasich for America website, the event will be in the Mulcahy Room of the Hynes Center. Doors open at 3 p.m. and the program will begin at 4 p.m.

Iona College is located at 715 North Ave. in New Rochelle.

Kasich will also be appearing at the Rockland County GOP Lincoln Day Victory Ball Saturday in Pearl River, according to the Rockland County Republican Party Facebook page.

The event will be at the Hilton Pearl River, beginning at 6 p.m.

Kasich has been trailing both real estate mogul and reality television star Donald J. Trump and Texas Senator Ted Cruz.

He has won only one primary contest so far, that being his home state of Ohio, according to npr.org.

There is no way he can get the necessary delegates to secure the GOP nomination, unless there are convention rules changes, npr.org said.

However, a new McClatchy-Marist poll, confirms what Kasich has been saying all along: that he’s the most electable of the Republican candidates.

The recent poll found that Kasich beat former senator and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by 9 points, winning large margins among independents.

Sanders, though, easily beat Cruz or Kasich, the poll said.

Unfortunately, the McClatchy-Marist poll also found that this is a “hold-your-nose” kind of election.

David Lightman, writing for McClatchyDC.com, said that both Trump and Clinton are “unusually weak, widely disliked presidential candidates whom most people plan to vote against if the front-runners meet in the general election.”

For the complete article on the latest McClatchy-Marist poll, go here.

To read the entire npr.org article, go here.

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