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“I’m really agitated with the fact that here she is calling on somebody else to resign with her history," Ohio Gov. John Kasich said Monday a day after Hillary Clinton called for the resignation of Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder. | AP Photo Kasich on Clinton: ‘She better watch what she’s saying’

John Kasich on Monday blasted Hillary Clinton for calling on Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder to step down or be forced out of office.

Clinton said for the first time Sunday that Snyder should either resign or be recalled.

“Now when Hillary starts talking about he should resign, what about her server in her house and the possibility that she had very classified information on that server? She better watch what she’s saying,” Kasich warned in an interview with Yahoo’s Katie Couric.

His tone toward the former secretary of state is in stark contrast to the one directed at his rivals. The Ohio governor has refused to personally attack his opponents throughout his campaign, despite the intense back-and-forth and mockery from Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio.

But Kasich didn’t spare the candidate he swears he will face in the general election.

“You know, that’s demagoguery out of her. I know her and I don’t like that,” Kasich said of Clinton's comments about Snyder. “I’m really agitated with the fact that here she is calling on somebody else to resign with her history, with the history of her family. Give me a break, OK?”

Kasich said Snyder has been held accountable for his role in the crisis in Flint, where the heavily African-American community has been burdened with lead-contaminated drinking water.

“In regards to Snyder, he’s gotta fix the place and I think he’s working to fix the place,” Kasich said. “I’ve not dug into everything that happened in Flint. I try to tell my people if we have a problem, tell us. Tell us what your problem is, admit it, come clean and let’s get on top of it and try to fix it.”

Snyder on Sunday tweeted a series of responses to Clinton’s remarks. “This was never about money,” he said in one tweet. “This was a failure of government at all levels that could be described as a massive error of bureaucracy.”

Snyder emphasized that political candidates will be leaving Michigan after its primary Tuesday but vowed that he will remain to “fix this crisis and help move Flint forward.”