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Kasich: I'm gonna get a 'heck of a lot' of Trump's voters

John Kasich has some news for Donald Trump: Not only is he staying in the race through the convention, but he also plans to take even more of the Republican front-runner’s support.

“Donald Trump said that I need to get out the race because I’m getting his voters,” Kasich told supporters during a town hall in Hempstead, New York, on Monday. “I’ve got news for him: I’m gonna get a heck of a lot of his voters, OK? That’s what’s gonna happen.”

The New York billionaire on Sunday questioned why Kasich is allowed to run despite having no mathematical path to securing the GOP nomination outright. “All he’s doing is just he goes from place to place and loses,” said Trump, who accused the Ohio governor of taking votes away from his campaign and called on him to drop out.

Kasich, who has been making an appeal to Trump’s voters in New York, suggested the businessman’s voters are gravitating toward him because he understands their anxiety.

“They’re worried that their job is not secure, that some politician’s gonna do something goofy or some business is gonna do something without thinking about him or her, and they’re out of work,” Kasich said. “They’re worried about the fact that they don’t get a pay raise.”