John Kasich evidently doesn’t like to be reminded that, well, he’s basically a big loser with no hope of ever becoming president. He’s only won one state. In most other contests, he’s come in dead last. The chances of him getting chosen as the party’s nominee are slim to none, yet he keeps on hanging in there, for some inexplicable reason. He’s insistent on pretending that he’s got a chance — and he doesn’t like being reminded that, well, he kind of actually doesn’t. Kasich was talking about how he’s the only candidate who can actually win, when Financial Times reporter Demetri Sevastopulo pointed out that Kasich has only won one state. And Kasich did not like that at all.

“Governor, if you get to the convention in Cleveland and you’ve only won Ohio, do you think you’re qualified to be the nominee?” Financial Times reporter Demetri Sevastopulo asked Kasich in a New York deli.

“There’s no ‘if’ in there,” Kasich responded. “There’ll be ‘when.’ At the end of the day, I think the Republican Party wants to pick somebody who can actually win in the fall.”

Sevastopulo then tried reiterating his question, only for Kasich to turn the tables on the reporter instead.

“But if you’ve only won Ohio… ” he began before Kasich interjected.

“Can I finish?” Kasich asked.

“Can you answer my question?” Sevastopulo retorted.

“I’m answering the question the way I want to answer it,” Kasich said.

Kasich then grabbed Sevastopulo’s recording device and turned it around to face the reporter.

“You want to answer that?” he asked. “Here, let me hold that. Let me ask you — what do you think? Come on.”

“No, you’re the candidate,” Sevastopulo said.

To make matters worse, the entire thing was caught on video.

It’s got to hurt to be reminded that, well, no one likes you and you’re basically a big loser who can’t stop losing. The only state Kasich was able to win, after all, was his home state. If he’d lost Ohio, that would have been a huge embarrassment. (Just ask Marco Rubio.) So, sure, he managed to get the people who voted him into office in Ohio to vote for him again. But given that, shouldn’t he expect to be getting questions like this? Or are we supposed to play along with his little charade? Ladies and gentlemen, for your entertainment, John Kasich will play the role of a demented wannabe presidential candidate who thinks he still has a chance to win.

And notice that he didn’t actually answer the question, either. Having only won one state, what makes him think he’s qualified to be the candidate? Because he wants to be president? Well, so do a lot of people, John. So what? Voters have made it overwhelmingly clear that they don’t want him. So again, why is it that he’s qualified to be the Republican nominee?

Kasich may not like being asked tough questions, and that’s fine. But it also comes with the territory. If he doesn’t want to get asked about how he can expect to win when he’s just a big, fat loser, then he should do what almost everyone in the country has wanted him to do for months and months now: drop out. Why delay the inevitable?