Ohio Gov. John Kasich said running the state remains his top priority even as he campaigns elsewhere for the Republican presidential nomination. “We don’t sacrifice anything here for, you know, for anything else that might be down the road,” Kasich told reporters after opening the Ohio State Fair on Wednesday. The governor has made recent campaign visits to Iowa, South Carolina, Michigan and New Hampshire since announcing his White House bid last week. Though he said he remains “constantly in touch” while he’s out of town. “It’s not like I’m going to be away all the time — it just doesn’t work that way,” Kasich told reporters. “You go in and out of places and have an ability to get home, because when I’m home, that’s what I like the best.” But Kasich said he has had fun campaigning outside his perennial presidential battleground state. “I don’t want this to be a trip to the dentist,” he told reporters. “I want to enjoy myself, and I want the people to enjoy themselves.” Kasich joined his wife and twin daughters in cutting the ribbon to start the annual fair in Columbus. The governor spoke briefly to fairgoers at the opening ceremony. “I don’t want to hold things up, because nobody wants to hear a bunch of politicians talking here at the fair when we can get in there and start enjoying it,” he said. …
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