John Kasich’s Entitled Approach
After a second-place finish in New York, the Ohio governor is emboldened.
Erica Grieder is a senior Editor at Texas Monthly. From 2007 to 2012, she covered Texas as the southwest correspondent for the Economist, to which she still contributes. Her writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the Spectator, the Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and the New Republic. Her first book, Big, Hot, Cheap and Right, was published in April 2013 by Public Affairs Books. She lives in Austin.
After a second-place finish in New York, the Ohio governor is emboldened.
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