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The 2016 Ohio Republican presidential primary took place March 15 in the U.S. state of Ohio, as a part of the Republican Party's series of presidential primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election. The Ohio primary was held alongside Republican primary elections in Florida, Illinois, Missouri and North Carolina, along with the Democratic ...
The 2016 presidential campaign of John Kasich, the 69th governor of Ohio, was announced on July 21, 2015. He was a candidate for the 2016 Republican Party presidential nomination. He earned 154 delegates and won only one contest, his home state, Ohio .
The Green Party of Ohio participated in the March 15 primaries in Ohio, though they did not hold their presidential primary during the event. [29] Instead, delegates to the Green National Convention were awarded based on presidential preference through a nominating convention in Columbus on April 3.
The Ohio general elections, 2016 were held on November 8, 2016, throughout Ohio. The close of registration for electors in the primary election was December 16, 2015, and the primary election took place on March 15, 2016.
After finishing a distant third in Tuesday's Indiana primary, the Kasich campaign sent out a memo announcing the Ohio governor will remain in the race.
The 2016 schedule has been dubbed the "SEC Primary", since many of the participating states are represented in the U.S. collegiate Southeastern Conference. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] The participating states include Alabama , Alaska caucuses, Arkansas , Georgia , Massachusetts , Minnesota caucuses, Oklahoma , Tennessee , Texas , Vermont , and Virginia .
Vivek Ramaswamy is expected to announce a run for governor of Ohio after he was passed over for filling the state’s open Senate seat previously held by J.D. Vance. (AFP via Getty Images)
Ohio’s deep GOP history suggested there could finally be a breaking of the Trump fever; it was one of two states that neither Trump nor Ted Cruz won in 2016’s primaries, although Kasich’s ...