Kasich quits????

Kasich quits presidential race: report

By Ben Kamisar

John Kasich is suspending his bid for the White House, NBC News is reporting.

He will make an announcement about his campaign at 5 p.m. on Wednesday in Columbus, Ohio, his campaign said.

The Ohio governor had long been mathematically eliminated from securing enough delegates to win the nomination on first ballot. But with many in the GOP strongly opposed to Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, Kasich forged ahead, hoping he could emerge from the ashes of a contested convention.

But Trump’s victory on Tuesday in Indiana has put the businessman on track to secure the 1,237 delegates he would to clinch the nomination, leaving Kasich without a path to victory.

Kasich won just one state during the race, his home state of Ohio, and failed to gain traction in the Midwestern and Northeastern states that he had predicted would propel his candidacy. Kasich ended up with fewer delegates than Marco Rubio, who ended his own campaign in mid-March after he lost his home state of Florida.

The governor tried to set himself apart from the rhetoric of the Republican field, repeatedly saying that he would not "take the low road to the highest office in the land.”

Most swing-state polls found Kasich with the best chance of vanquishing either Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, a point that his team cited repeatedly as they sought to keep his candidacy alive.