US Republican presidential candidate John Kasich said on Monday that women “left their kitchens” to support him in a 1978 Ohio state senate race, triggering pushback from voters and rivals.
US Republican presidential candidate John Kasich said on Monday that women “left their kitchens” to support him in a 1978 Ohio state senate race, triggering pushback from voters and rivals.
“How did I get elected ” Kasich asked rhetorically during a campaign event in Virginia. “Nobody was — I didn’t have anybody for me. We just got an army of people... Many wo-men, who left their kitc-hens to go out and go door to door, and to put yard signs up for me. All the way back, when, you know, things were different. Now you call homes and everybody’s out working. But at that time, early days, it was an army of the women that really helped me get elected to the state Sen-ate,” Mr Kasich added.
Kasich, who now serves as Ohio’s governor, first ran for the state senate in 1978. A woman attending the Virginia town hall later quipped: “First off, I want to say — your comment earlier about the women came out the kitchen to support you I’ll come to support you, but I won’t be coming out of the kitchen.”
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was quick to jump on Mr Kasich’s remarks to suggest he was out of touch with women. “It’s 2016. A woman’s place is... Wherever she wants it to be,” Ms Clinton tweeted.
