Livonia – Ohio Gov. John Kasich is pulling out all of the stops to win Michigan’s March 8 Republican presidential primary, even heaping praise on Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo.
At a campaign town hall event Tuesday in Livonia, the two-term Ohio governor invoked the MSU coach while talking at length about the need for better leadership coming from the White House.
“Let’s talk for a second about Tom Izzo. I mean that guy is magic,” Kasich said, garnering some applause from a 500-person crowd that seemed equally divided between MSU and University of Michigan fans.