Kasich: The GOP Can’t Win ‘By Scaring Every Hispanic in This Country to Death’

John Kasich has virtually no chance of becoming the GOP nominee, but he’s not going down without a fight, and today he made it clear the Republican party has serious outreach problems.

According to ABC News, Kasich spoke with reporters at the California Republican convention in San Francisco last night and said, “Do the Republicans actually think that they can win an election by scaring every Hispanic in this country to death?”

He said that “scaring them to the point that they are afraid that their families are going to be torn apart and disrupted” only hurts the party in a national election.

In the same vein, Kasich also addressed the Trump protesters that showed up last night (some of whom assaulted a Trump supporter):

“When you live on the negative side, when you feed people’s anger––you see what happened here today? I heard about it. People chaining themselves to a fence trying to prevent somebody from coming––I mean, you see what’s happening? Okay? Well, I may not be winning those votes right now, but over time I believe the people will like to live where they can be hopeful.”

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