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"I ought to be running in a Democrat primary, I got more Democrats for me -- you have any Republican friends?" John Kasich said. | Getty Kasich jokes: I ought to be running as a Democrat

John Kasich joked ahead of Saturday night's debate that he's running in the wrong primary.

"I ought to be running in a Democrat primary, I got more Democrats for me -- you have any Republican friends?" the Ohio governor asked a Democratic voter who had told him that he was the only Republican who could possibly earn her vote.

At the campaign stop in Manchester, he also jokingly asked a woman who identified herself as an election day worker.

"Can't you just stuff the ballot for me? I mean, I signed this for you," he said, pointing to the paper he signed with a red Sharpie.

"Don't tell anybody," the woman responded, to which Kasich said, "OK, I won't. Shh..."

Kasich, no stranger to off-the-cuff remarks on the trail, told CNN's Gloria Borger on Friday that he would be "the worst vice president anybody could ever imagine."