# How will the GOP establishment try to kill the Trump nomination?

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**Created:** [February 11, 2016, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-gop-establishment-try-to-kill-the-trump-nomination/745812 "2016-02-11T13:39:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-gop-establishment-try-to-kill-the-trump-nomination/745812/13 "2016-02-11T15:21:23Z")

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> [@running\_coach](#):
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> Kasich is as bad as the rest, he’s just very quiet about it. Someone posted a list of his positions in one of the election threads.

Here it is. From the [most recent](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=783343&highlight=Kasich) Republican debate thread.

> [@Republican Debate 2/6/16](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-debate-2-6-16/745376/73):
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> 1-Advocates defunding Planned Parenthood.  
> 2-Supported and signed a law making it illegal for rape crisis centers to point out to rape victims that if they become pregnant, abortion is an option.  
> 3-Advocates removing carbon emissions and coal-fired plants from the EPA and giving pollution control to the states.  
> 4-Signed a bill to do eliminate the state’s renewable energy program.  
> 5-Supports fracking in Ohio state parks and forests.  
> 6-Signed legislation allowing the Governor to sell state mineral rights to the highest bidder (though the program was never implemented).  
> 7-Supports the Keystone pipeline.  
> 8-Advocates selling all of the state’s prisons to private contractors.  
> 9-Opposes medical marijuana and the legalization of marijuana. Thinks the President should somehow “stomp out” (his words) marijuana.  
> 10-Opposes public employee collective bargaining. Opposes collective bargaining for in-home medical carers and repealed by executive order his predecessor’s order which implemented it.  
> 11-Supports a federal Balanced Budget Amendment.  
> 12-Supports a school voucher program and state funding of private schools.  
> 13-Supports the teaching of intelligent design.  
> 14-Supports sending US ground troops to fight ISIS.  
> 15-Opposes the Iran treaty.  
> 16-Supports more military spending.  
> 17-Opposes same sex marriage.  
> 18-Wants to remove the 14th Amendment’s birthright citizenship provision.  
> 19-Supports a border wall.  
> 20-His initial cabinet of 22 members was all-white until criticisms led him to begin appointing minorities.  
> 21-Has supported and signed laws limiting voting rights.
> 
> On another note, why do the Republicans call ISIS/ISIL “The Caliphate”? Weren’t they the ones complaining because Obama says ISIL claiming it was to confuse people about his talking about ISIS?

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