Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos on Wednesday scoffed at a claim by John Kasich that he would care about the interests of African Americans. The new presidential candidate appeared on GMA and asserted, "...If you're black, if you're brown, if you're struggling, we care about you and we're going to work to make sure you're included in the American dream."

A suspicious Stephanopoulos responded, "You think your party is ready to accept that message?" This is nothing new for Stephanopoulos. On May 13, 2007, he speculated that the racists would vote Republican:

ABC's Sam Donaldson: '[Senator Barack Obama is] an African-American. Is the country ready? Well, I think it is. And he said he thinks it is. He said he thinks he'll lose some votes because of that, and so the question is, what does the word 'some' mean?....'

Moderator George Stephanopoulos: 'Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm naive, but Sam, I guess I think that anyone who's not going to vote for Barack Obama because he is black isn't going to vote for a Democrat anyway.'

— ABC's This Week, May 13, 2007.

More recently, Stephanopoulos was forced to apologize after secretly donating $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation.

Naturally, the former Clinton operative didn't question Kasich from the right. He did not press Kasich on his decision, as governor, to expand Medicaid. In 2014, the Republican defended his actions as the Christian thing to do: "I don't know about you... But when I get to the Pearly Gates, I'm going to have an answer for what I've done for the poor."

Instead, Stephanopoulos pressed Kasich on personality: "As you said yourself, you can be tough sometimes. To someone who questions whether you have the temperament to be president?

A transcript of the July 22 segment is below: