Subject: FW: TrackerBASE Report: PRES John Kasich Original Oyster House Pittsburgh, PA 4/19/2016
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To: Research_D <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 13:38:34 -0700

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Subject: TrackerBASE Report: PRES John Kasich Original Oyster House Pittsburgh, PA 4/19/2016

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FROM: Christopher van Leeuwen

Location: Original Oyster House Pittsburgh, PA

Date: 04/19/16

RE: John Kasich Original Oyster House Pittsburgh, PA 04/19/16 ___________________________________________________________

Event Details:

http://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/04/john_kasich_to_campaign_in_pit.html

Attendees/Audience: 70

Press: 7 video cameras, 12 print and photographers

Summary of Event:

Key Points:

0:40 John Kasich: thank you for coming out I didn't expect to see anyone.

Guy: you're the only one who makes any sense.

JK: what about the Stillers (Steelers) are they going to be good this year?

Q: who's your pick Penguins or Rangers?

JK: people save you pick for baseball or football, my wife knows the owner of the Reds.

3:20 JK: I was asked the question what is Pittsburgh values? And what I grew up everyone took care of everyone around them, I don't think there is a single place where I've appeared in this country were Avenue not talked about McKees rocks, when I was a kid residence came in wet but it was Roberto Clemente who was a hero, I can remember my mother crying on two separate occasions one when the Pope died in the second time when Clemente died in that plane crash. Whenever I was a kid in had my sled good on the hill onto the street there was a lady who would tell my mother, I hated that lady, I look back and now I love her to she was watching out for me. Everyone is special. I can't believe I am standing here, I would like to talk longer but I got a fish sandwich waiting.

7:20 (walked slowly towards restaurants)

Guy: Drop out and endorse Cruz!

JK: it wouldn't be Pittsburgh if someone wasn't yelling at me.

9:20 JK: I have never wanted a picture taken and put on a wall, but if you take a picture of a man put on the wall that would make my life,  you mean I have to be president to make it on the wall, some of these guys appeared didn't win titles. Is that Frank Sinatra there?

12:00 Q: as a Pittsburgh boy is a great to come back?

JK: it's not like I don't come back I was just here not that long ago, I had a buddy here who said he never had the food in no he said he's going to be a regular, it's not like I'm a stranger to this place.

Q: why do you feel you be evil to connect to Pennsylvania voters?

JK: we will see, we should do well in some areas, the real issue is how much money can I put on television, what's our ground game going to be, were into the best we can hear, if they knew me they would vote for me because I'm one of them.

Q: Trump when he was here last week promised to bring back the steel industry?

JK: did he, well, the thing is in Pittsburgh which kind of move to new industries, instead of making widgets were now making computer chips, Pittsburgh has had a Renaissance, I think there's a place for heavy industry, over 60,000 manufacturing jobs in Ohio, if use advance manufacturing lower energy prices that you get from tracking you have a real possibility of being able to have more heavy industry come back, it's in our DNA, but that's a lot of promises, okay, and I don't make a lot of promises that I can absolutely deliver on.

13:46 Q: between here and the convention do you think you can get the momentum you need to build on?

JK: work hard from the oyster house. (Starts eating sandwich)

14:10 Q: hey Gov. what kind of sauces that?

JK: I'm not answering those type of personal questions. (cuts sandwich in half and gives half to Mike Schrempf)

15:00 JK: “can you believe this? All I wanted is to come and have a fish sandwich, bro.”

19:20 JK: the Steelers ruled a good reliable second string quarterback, because ben roethlisberger gets banged around all the time, sometimes I think less then he says he's banged around, one of the owners of the Steelers is here, hey, what are you promising next year?

23:37 JK: I have to pay, there will be trouble if I don't.

Server: $7.22 (Kasich gives $20)

JK: Just give me $11 back, give her the tip.

27:00 Q: how are you hoping to do in New York tonight?

JK: we are hoping to get some delegates, we really want to get a few delegates, I'm not going to make a prediction but we worked hard there, it's all about the delegates now, I had a meeting with some early this morning, it's all about accumulating delegates going into the convention, everybody is figured out that were actually going to go to competitive convention and open to mention, some people say shouldn't the guy who has a plurality or whatever the one who gets picked, what we have are rules, if you didn't get the magic number then you fall short and go through a process of multiple ballots, I'm the only one who beats Hillary by 12 points in the electoral college. One time I was a kid I got to go to the US still building in meet the CEO, and I Looking out the window and he simply looking at normally I'm looking up when I was a kid now I want to look down the series what it's like.

29:00 Q: how will you do in Pennsylvania next Tuesday?

JK: we will just keep working and struggle with it get into these districts where we think we have a chance to win delegates, will wait and see how much money we have to put ads on television, hopefully things like this get peoples attention, I think when people find out that I have these Pittsburgh values I think that helps as well, it's really a delegate battle from here on out.

Q: how important is that relationship to delegates?

JK: very important many of the states have a different process, each state setups its own rules, I'm not a delegate expert because that's not what I do, it's very important meet with them, and at a convention you'll have to tell all these delegates who you are, these delegates are going to want someone selected who actually can win in the fall, there is no point to being the nominee and getting crushed.

30:15 Q: This weekend you told politico…

JK: I don't think I talked to politico that all this weekend, what is it that I've might've said?

Q: they quoted you as saying that you would move the Dems to spots that they haven't been in years?

Q: politically I think I can compete in places, in the state of New York am only five points behind Hillary Clinton in a general election, there hasn't been a Republican who got that close in forever, I can kick the Pennsylvania Michigan Wisconsin, these are places where Republicans are written often don't generally do that well. Being from Ohio, will  put time in Ohio you don't take anything for granted. This will force the Democrats to spend money and time, with any of the other nominees you can write those states off, I don't think there's any way these guys can win Pennsylvania. The battleground states would be expanded for the first time, with the Republican nominee who can relate to blue-collar folks.

Q: you had 30% of the black vote in Ohio in the last election?

JK: we are pretty good support among African Americans community, it's a story that needs to be told, these things just don't go viral, have had a career with strong economic growth and jobs, and the foreign-policy expertise, and Ohio being executive they are returning the state around from a loss of over 200,000 job to gain of over 400,000 and not leaving anyone behind the mentally ill the drug addicted everyone gets a shot including our friends in the minority community. The message of hope and unifying, I may be a Republican did before I'm a Republican I'm American, were not Democrats or Republicans first were Americans.

35:40 JK: these young women are from Ohio and there were trying to give people who have made mistakes in their life a second chance, they just told me that they are hired 20 x offenders in their company, in other words the company has a philosophy of everyone getting a second chance, Michael Vick had one of the best statements ever and that is that you only have one chance to make a good second impression and I have always like that. I was in New Jersey and there was a pilot there and his partner, and they had just flown a little boy treated for very serious cancer, I asked him why do they do this and they said somebody has to do it, this is if they denied the airplane this boy might not survive and get the treatment he needs, those are Pittsburgh values, Pittsburgh values are everyone gets a second chance.

37:50 (JK awkwardly hangs baby out of car window posing for picture)

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