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Donald Trump speaks during a March 11 news conference at the Mar-A-Lago Club, in Palm Beach, Florida. | AP Photo New Trump ad slams Kasich in Ohio

Donald Trump released a blistering new ad slamming John Kasich in Ohio on Friday, hitting him for his past ties to Lehman Brothers and absence from his home state while on the campaign trail.

“After John Kasich helped Wall Street predator Lehman Brothers destroy the world economy, he decided to run for governor of Ohio," a fast-talking narrator intones.

Kasich worked as managing director of Lehman Brothers' investment banking division in Columbus, Ohio, until the bank went under in 2008. "I wasn't involved in the inner workings of Lehman, I was a banker. I didn't go to board meetings or go and talk investment strategy with the top people. I was nowhere near that," Kasich told the Dayton Daily News in 2010. "That's like, it's sort of like being a car dealer in Zanesville and being blamed for the collapse of GM."

The video then cuts to a map of the U.S., with states where Kasich has spent a great deal of time and resources campaign shaded in blue, with a red question mark over Ohio.





"John Kasich has been an absentee governor, spending most of his time everywhere, but Ohio, especially Michigan, the latest disaster in his failing presidential bid," the spot continues, before hitting the governor on his role in expanding Medicaid under Obamacare.

"We don’t need him in Ohio, and we certainly don’t need him in Washington. John Kasich: Just another all-talk, no-action politician," the spot concludes.

Kasich recently overtook Trump in a recent Fox News poll of likely primary voters in the state, though the Manhattan real-estate mogul has led in a majority of recent surveys.

Trump's anti-Kasich advertisement follows a series of similar negative ads taking on Marco Rubio in his home state of Florida.