John Kasich is not going to become president.

That’s the main point of this NBC News story , which says “influential Republicans are so far not enthusiastic about the potential presidential candidacy of (Kasich), not actively discouraging from him running but not urging him to do so either.” Ohio’s governor has been making the rounds in New Hampshire and South Carolina, “But there are no signs yet of a major movement to push Kasich into the race the way Democrats have urged both Hillary Clinton and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren to run,” NBC News says. Some Republicans “say that the views of Kasich, a moderate on some issues, so closely mirror those of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush that there is little need for him to enter the race or space for Kasich to distinguish himself,” according to the story. As we already know, “many conservatives strongly disagree with Kasich's emphatic advocacy of his decision to expand Medicaid through Obamacare in Ohio,” the story notes. "There is no hunger in the land for John Kasich," says Ramesh Ponnuru, an influential conservative writer and policy expert. He adds, "Jeb Bush is a much more attractive candidate if you are an establishment donor. If you think well maybe Jeb's not going to be able to make the sale, maybe then you go to Kasich, but even then Rubio's got to be pretty attractive." NBC News reports that Avik Roy, a conservative health care expert at the Manhattan Institute, “bluntly questioned Kasich on Medicaid at the Wednesday night dinner in New York and came away unimpressed.” Roy tells the network, “He is passionate about the Medicaid expansion while also claiming he wants to repeal Obamacare. I can't say that he answered that in a way that is intellectually coherent. I don't see how you could."