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Ohio Gov. John Kasich is campaigning Monday in Youngstown
YOUNGSTOWN
After going more than 16 months without a public appearance in the Mahoning Valley, Gov. John Kasich will be in the area twice campaigning in the final days leading to Ohio’s Tuesday primary.
The Republican governor will be at Brilex Industries Inc., 101 Andrews Ave. in Youngstown, for a town-hall meeting Monday. The doors will open at 9:30 a.m. with the one-hour event starting at 10 a.m.
Youngstown State University President Jim Tressel is being advertised as a “special guest.”
Tressel attended a private fundraiser Nov. 18 at the Canfield home of the Zoldan family to raise money for the presidential campaign of Democrat Hillary Clinton, who is also running for president. Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, headlined that fundraiser.
The Brilex stop is part of Kasich’s bus tour through the state that also includes a Sunday visit at the Spread Eagle Tavern and Inn in Hanoverton. Those attending that event are asked to be there at 5:30 p.m. with the one-hour rally starting at 6 p.m.
Kasich’s last public visit to the Valley was Oct. 30, 2014, when he was campaigning for re-election as governor. He and the rest of the statewide Republican ticket had a rally at Dearing Compressor & Pump Co. at 801 Midlothian Blvd. in Youngstown. All of the Republican statewide candidate were re-elected a few days later.
During his successful 2010 bid for governor, Kasich went to Brilex on Sept. 9 of that year to unveil a campaign policy on job training.
Polls show a close race in Tuesday’s Republican primary in Ohio between Kasich and GOP frontrunner Donald Trump.
Kasich has said his presidential campaign would end if he failed to win his home state’s winner-take-all-delegates primary. The winner of the Ohio Republican primary gets 66 delegates.
Trump has campaigned in Ohio and is returning Saturday with events in Cleveland and Dayton. He has no Mahoning Valley stops on his schedule.
U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Marco Rubio of Florida, the two other Republican presidential candidates, aren’t expected to campaign in Ohio.
The campaigns of the two Democratic presidential candidates – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Hillary Clinton, a former U.S. senator from New York and ex-secretary of state – have and will be in Ohio leading up to the primary.
But neither campaign has announced stops in the Mahoning Valley.