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Colbert: Kasich needs Massachippissippi, NorthKentucksylvania

Carl Weiser
cweiser@enquirer.com
Stephen Colbert told John Kasich he seemed "reasonable," but pushed back against his opposition to marijuana.

The day after John Kasich won the Ohio presidential primary, "Late Show' host Stephen Colbert skewered the governor for suggesting he could win the Republican nomination.

"Because to secure the nomination at the convention in Cleveland this summer," Colbert said, "Kasich would have to get 116 percent of the remaining delegates. We'd have to make him governor of every remaining state, plus some states we don't even have yet."  Among those states: "North Kentucksylvania and Massachippissippi."

Kasich himself has acknowledged that his only realistic chance of winning the nomination is at a contested convention in Cleveland.

Colbert also showed Kasich getting "swallowed in a storm of confetti" and disappearing from the TV screen. The Kasich segment begins at the 5:15 mark:​