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“In my opinion he is by far the best-qualified Republican candidate and the only one who could win the general election,” said Ted Roosevelt IV, who served as a Navy SEAL in Vietnam for two years, of Ohio Gov. John Kasich. | AP Photo Theodore Roosevelt's great-grandson endorses Kasich

Theodore Roosevelt’s great-grandson endorsed John Kasich for president on Monday.

Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt IV, a managing director in investment banking at Barclays and a conservationist, said in a release that he’s known Kasich for years. The Ohio governor visited the home of Roosevelt’s great-grandfather in Oyster Bay, N.Y. this month.

“In my opinion he is by far the best-qualified Republican candidate and the only one who could win the general election,” said Roosevelt, who served as a Navy SEAL in Vietnam for two years and as a foreign service officer.

Kasich has racked up a number of high-profile endorsements in recent months, but it's done little to help his standing in the delegate race. It's mathematically impossible for the Ohio governor to win the GOP nomination outright, and he's hoping to prevail as a consensus candidate at a contested convention.