Republican presidential candidate, Ohio Gov. John Kasich speaks during a town hall at Penn State Brandywine Campus. (Credit: AP) COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Gov. John Kasich on Tuesday advised state electors not to vote for him in an anti-Donald Trump protest. Kasich, a Republican who ran unsuccessfully for president, told The Associated Press Tuesday that he is not a candidate for president, the election was held and Trump was the winner. “The country is divided and there are certainly raw emotions on both sides stemming from the election,” Kasich, in his second and last four-year term, said in a statement. “But this approach, as well meaning as it is, will only serve to further divide our nation, when unity is what we need,” he said.