Republican Kasich says Trump, Cruz lead to 'path of darkness'
Source: Reuters
Republican presidential candidate John Kasich portrayed himself on Tuesday as an antidote to what he called the divisive politics of rivals Donald Trump and Ted Cruz and criticized them as wanting to take the United States down a "path of darkness."
Kasich's "two paths" speech in New York City was an effort to distinguish himself from both Trump and Trump's chief rival for the Republican presidential nomination, U.S. Senator Cruz of Texas, and carve out a space for himself as a positive, reasonable conservative.
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Kasich - running a distant third behind Trump and Cruz and with no chance of capturing the Republican nomination unless he can emerge from a contested convention in July - did not mention Trump and Cruz by name but left no doubt as to who he was talking about.
He lashed out at Trump proposals to deport 11 million illegal immigrants and impose protectionist trade policies. He ridiculed Cruz's idea for a business flat tax, calling it a value-added tax. These are examples of a path of darkness, he said.
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