The following article by Robert Costa was posted on the Washington Post website August 13, 2018:
President Trump taunted Ohio Gov. John Kasich on Monday, asserting that his increasingly vocal Republican rival is “very unpopular” and a “failed presidential candidate,” and to blame for the narrow margin in last week’s special congressional election in the state.
Kasich responded with an impish tweet: an image of Russian President Vladimir Putin breaking into a grin and laughing.
The salvos were the latest in the feud between Trump and Kasich, who is considering challenging Trump in the 2020 presidential race and has become one of the president’s sharpest GOP critics.