If you're looking for Taylor Swift tickets, GOP presidential candidate and Ohio Gov. John Kasich isn't your man.

But don't take our word for it.

According to a column in the Collegian, the University of Richmond's campus news site, Kasich — while visiting the school on Monday — made a confusing quip at a female student who raised her hand with a question.

"I'm sorry, I don't have any Taylor Swift concert tickets," he reportedly said.

The student, the Collegian's 18-year-old features assistant Kayla Solsbak, hit back with a column Tuesday, slamming the candidate for "the hypocrisy of his condescension" and calling his entering the forum to the hit song "Shut Up and Dance With Me" – not a T-Swift jam, by the way – "a half-hearted attempt to connect with young voters.

"I didn't go to a town hall forum for Taylor Swift tickets, Gov. Kasich. I went because it's my civic duty to be an informed voter. Please start treating me like one," she wrote.

After the article was published, another student penned a rebuttal, arguing that Kasich's comments were taken out of context in an effort to play the "sexism card."

Kasich, the response argues, made the comment "because the level of excitement being exuded by the author was that of a teen Taylor Swift fan trying to get tickets to a concert."

