--- title: John Kasich Drops Out: Transcript of His Speech in Ohio description: Here is a transcript of the speech John Kasich gave when he ended his presidential campaign on Wednesday canonical: https://time.com/4318889/john-kasich-drops-out-suspends-campaign-speech-transcript/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-04T23:31:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T17:17:14.569Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read Kasich's Speech Dropping Out of the Presidential Race og:description: The Ohio Governor ended his campaign on Wednesday og:url: https://time.com/4318889/john-kasich-drops-out-suspends-campaign-speech-transcript/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltee8e60a69c03531d/698891f50b72e38f886e93e0/john-kasich-ends-campaign.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: John Kasich Announces End Of His Presidential Campaign og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Kasich's Speech Dropping Out of the Presidential Race twitter:description: The Ohio Governor ended his campaign on Wednesday twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltee8e60a69c03531d/698891f50b72e38f886e93e0/john-kasich-ends-campaign.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read John Kasich's Speech on Dropping Out of the Presidential Race  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly May 4, 2016 11:31 PM UTC  Republican presidential candidate Ohio Gov. John Kasich speaks to the media on May 4 in Columbus, Ohio, to announce he is suspending his campaign. Republican presidential candidate Ohio Gov. John Kasich speaks to the media on May 4 in Columbus, Ohio, to announce he is suspending his campaign.J.D. Pooley/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly May 4, 2016 11:31 PM UTC Ohio Gov. John Kasich [dropped out of the presidential race on Wednesday](http://time.com/4317997/republican-party-donald-trump-john-kasich-ted-cruz-indiana/?xid=homepage), making Donald Trump the [undisputed presumptive Republican nominee](http://time.com/4316170/indiana-primary-results-donald-trump-ted-cruz-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-republicans/). Here is a transcript of the speech he gave at a press conference in Columbus, Ohio. --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4318889/john-kasich-drops-out-suspends-campaign-speech-transcript/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4318889/john-kasich-drops-out-suspends-campaign-speech-transcript/"},"headline":"Read John Kasich's Speech on Dropping Out of the Presidential Race","datePublished":"2016-05-04T23:31:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T17:17:14.569Z","description":"The Ohio Governor ended his campaign on Wednesday","url":"https://time.com/4318889/john-kasich-drops-out-suspends-campaign-speech-transcript/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic","Ohio","john kasich","transcripts"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltee8e60a69c03531d/698891f50b72e38f886e93e0/john-kasich-ends-campaign.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltee8e60a69c03531d/698891f50b72e38f886e93e0/john-kasich-ends-campaign.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"John Kasich Announces End Of His Presidential Campaign","caption":"John Kasich Announces End Of His Presidential Campaign","creditText":"J.D. Pooley/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4318889/john-kasich-drops-out-suspends-campaign-speech-transcript/","name":"Read John Kasich's Speech on Dropping Out of the Presidential Race"}}]}] ```