Ankeny, Iowa — John Kasich is holding a town hall in Iowa, and he says the phrase that is supposed to be the death knell for a Republican presidential candidate in 2016: “I’ve been in politics a long, long time.”
He says it because he believes that being president is about more than talk, but about experience and accomplishments.
“I like to talk about what I have done,” Kasich says, “because I think that if I show you I’ve done it a couple of times before and now I tell you I can do it again, I hope that the record of the past would convince ...