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John Kasich: 'Zero chance' I will be on the ticket with Donald Trump Kasich on Trump VP slot: 'Zero chance'

John Kasich had two words at the ready on Tuesday when asked if he'd be Donald Trump's running mate: "Zero chance."

“Zero chance," the Ohio governor repeated during an in-studio interview with "CBS This Morning" ahead of a major speech he is set to deliver titled "Two Paths."

Kasich continued, "Look, I am running for president of the United States. and that’s it. If I'm not president, which I think I have an excellent shot to be, I will finish my term as governor and then maybe I’ll be a co-host on this show. You never know.”

"Zero" is also how Kasich described the amount of pressure he is feeling to get out of the race, after a string of primaries left him with zero new delegates.

"Am I under pressure? The person that's under pressure is the woman with a couple kids whose husband walks out on her," he remarked, "I'm having a great time."

Abraham Lincoln, Kasich remarked, was also behind in the race going into the 1860 primary — he trailed William Seward on the first two ballots before claiming victory on a subsequent vote.

Previewing his speech, Kasich also ripped into the Republican Party's leadership for its dearth of proposals on improving the lives of Americans. “What are we doing? Where have our ideas been? What are we doing to solve a lot of the serious problems?” he asked.

“How is it possible that the Republicans did not come up with a plan to make sure that anybody that has a pre-existing condition in health should not ever be denied health insurance? I mean, how did we never do that?," continued Kasich, who has been criticized on the right for accepting President Obama's Medicaid expansion. "I'm saying that the Republicans should have been doing that, they should have been doing that when they had control. They spend too much money, they blew the budget, and look, all I’m trying to say is, the party has a tendency to be against things more than being for things.”