Chrissie Thompson

cthompson@enquirer.com

John Kasich, a possible 2020 candidate, planned to give a speech less than 48 hours after polls close in this election, casting his vision for the future of the Republican Party after his vocal opposition to current GOP nominee Donald Trump.

But that plan was dashed Wednesday morning.

The Ohio governor, who refused to back Trump after losing to him in the GOP presidential primary, was going to give the speech Thursday at the American Enterprise Institute, a free-enterprise think tank in Washington, D.C., two people with knowledge of the plans told The Enquirer.

Kasich is mulling a possible 2020 bid for president, although he does not plan to launch that bid Thursday, the people said.