which you knew you weren t going to be able to follow through on? you know, anderson, there s not a heck of a lot that annoys me. i had a thing happen to me, though. i had this democrat who this is really pretty remarkable. i made a video for my last state of the state address. and i had republicans who were leaders when we turned ohio around and i had some democrats. i had a great friend of mine. she s a former senator, nita turner who helped this policing commission we had and we sat down and brought greater relationships between police and community. i had a former union guy who helped me to be able to do a record amount of infrom structure and then i had this lady who talked to me about human trafficking. and i asked her to be in this video. the night before she called my staff and said, i don t want to be in the video because i don t want to be in there with republicans. that annoyed me because it shouldn t come to that. we shouldn t be i mean, that s petty. that s silly, ri
you say to the millions of republicans around this country who, like myself, fear that core conservative principles have been compromised by a willingness to accept winning over accountability for our commander in chief and the standardbearer de facto for the party of lincoln? well, core republican principles have been compromised. let me just tell you the way i see it. we have to keep the taxes low and not too much regulation and don t leave anybody behind and we need to have a strong national defense. that s i mean, there s a lot of other things. we ought to be concerned about the environment. we ought to give everybody a chance. and so economic growth is a key to it, but that s my definition of what it means to be a republican. i got some young people traveling around the country with me now, one guy s up from alabama, another guy is up from georgia. i said, why are you here and how is the republican party doing in your area?
they said we re here because we re kasich republicans. what does that mean? optimistic, hopeful. i m doing my best to define what it means to be a republican. sometimes i take a lot of heat for that. i accepted medicaid expansion. people didn t like that in the republican party. i said, wait a minute. if i can have a partnership with the federal government that can help 700,000 people in my state get help and talking about the prescription drug problem that covers people who have those problems, that s my definition of what s the right thing to do as a party. i won i first won election by a narrow margin. the last time i ran, i won like 86 out of 88 counties. i won significant numbers of democrats, african-american votes. you know why? bring people together and lift them. i d say the biggest challenge i have now is sometimes in my own party who say, why didn t you go for trump or, you know, why did you expand medicaid. you know, i try to explain it to them. if they get it, i feel gre
let s go try it. or their peers or somebody. that s the moment of truth. where my daughters are going to have to say no and they have the resilience. and the only way they ll get it is if we warn them about the dangers of these drugs and these are not just my opinion. these are the opinion of people who have been involved and busting these cartels and chasing this poison all of their adult lifetime. i actually sent a note to all of their families thanking these dea agents for putting themselves on the line. don t forget the politicians, martin luther king couldn t even get a meeting with the president. he got neighbors and he got republicans and democrats and
[ applause ] this is joseph he runs a nonprofit here in new york. he voted for you last year in the republican primary. what s your question? manhattan. i m president of manhattan, not of the united states, but i did all right here. one, obviously, thank you for coming here. my question is obviously political parties are defined by the values that we taught and also as well as the individuals within that party willing to fight for those principles. my question to you is what do you say to the millions of republicans around this country who, like myself, fear that core conservative principles have been compromised by a willingness to accept winning over accountability for our commander in chief and the standardbearer de facto for the party of lincoln? well, core republican principles have been compromised. let me just tell you the way i see it. we have to keep the taxes low and not too much regulation and don t leave anybody behind and