Kasich on 2020 Unity Ticket with Hickenlooper: ‘The Answer Is No’

CHUCK TODD: Well, let me ask you about that, with both parties obviously there was some fun speculation about 2020 bubbling up. And the idea, you mentioned John Hickenlooper, the governor of Colorado, that you two are working together, trying to come up with a bipartisan fix here on the state exchanges and the health care law in general. And somebody floated the idea that it could be a 2020 unity ticket. Are you, could you imagine yourself leaving the Republican Party to do something like this?

GOV. JOHN KASICH: Chuck, look, Kasich/Hickenlooper. You couldn’t--first of all, you couldn't pronounce it. And secondly, you couldn't fit it on a bumper sticker. But here's what I do want to say, because Hickenlooper and I--

CHUCK TODD: That's not a denial.

GOV. JOHN KASICH: --are now working--

CHUCK TODD: Just because you can't fit it on--

GOV. JOHN KASICH: --no, the answer is no.

CHUCK TODD: --a bumper sticker.

GOV. JOHN KASICH: The answer is no, ok. But here's what--I do want people to think about this, because Hickenlooper and I work together cynics out there say, "Well, they want something." Because we want to stabilize health care and make sure that poor people have something people assume there's a motive. You know, sometimes people actually do things because they're trying to help somebody. And when we do that everybody ought not to say, "Well, what's in it for them?" This growing cynicism eats at the fabric of the spirit of our country. It’s not--it really aggravates--not much that aggravates me. That does.