Kasich: We need to rebuild from bottom up

Republican presidential candidate John Kasich talked about his experiences on the campaign trail giving hope to those who are struggling, adding that the country works best when it’s strong from the bottom up. 

During the CNN town hall on Thursday night, he talked about a woman he spoke with who was epileptic and asked for the candidate’s help. He also brought up a man who drove from New York to see him in New Hampshire.

{mosads}”He was crying at the end of the town hall, hugging me, he said: ‘I should’ve warned my son about testicular cancer because now the cancer’s in his lungs.’ And I said, ‘Sir, let it go, you’re not responsible for this.’ ” 

Kasich said the man the next day told someone, “I felt like there was something lifted off of my shoulder.” 

“One of the things that I’ve felt, that I’ve said in the campaign is we all need to slow down a little bit. There are a lot of people out there who are lonely and are looking for a place to tell people about their issues,” Kasich said.

The glue of America, he said is in people’s communities and families. And he emphasized that people should slow down.

“You got to celebrate other people’s wins and sometimes you got to sit with them and cry because that’s what we need in this country,” he said.

He said it’s up to the people to “rebuild this country” and renew its spirit. He referenced his own hometown, saying that the people who lived there didn’t wait for someone to come in and help them.

“We worked together,” he said, emphasizing that the country needs to be strong from the bottom up, not from the top down.

“What really inspires us are the stories of people who are just like us who change the world,” he said.

Kasich had shared an emotional moment with a supporter at a campaign earlier on Thursday.