BOULDER, Colorado—It didn’t take long for Donald Trump and John Kasich to mix it upWednesday over economic policy at the Republican presidential primary debate.
Mr. Kasich, the Ohio governor, took a broadside at the so-called outsider candidates without government experience, saying his “greatest concern is we’re on the verge of picking someone who cannot do this job.”
He cited proposals by other candidates to slash Medicare and Medicaid, deport illegal aliens, and other ideas that he described as “fantasy.”
“Folks, we’ve got to wake up,” Mr. Kasich said at the debate held at the University of Colorado’s Coors Event Center. “We cannot elect someone who does not how to do the job.”
Meanwhile, the businessman Trump challenged Mr. Kasich for taking credit for Ohio’s economic rebound, saying the recovery can be attributed to hydraulic fracturing and the oil and gas boom.
“John got lucky with a thing called fracking,” said Mr. Trump, adding that Mr. Kasich’s remarks came because “his poll numbers tanked, that’s why he’s at the end [of the stage].”
• Valerie Richardson can be reached at vrichardson@washingtontimes.com.
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