From the last Morning Jolt of the week:

Somebody Needed to Hit Kasich Earlier. Much Earlier.
There will be a lot of recriminations about how this race turned out, but here’s one point that may get missed easily: Sometime in the past month, or even earlier, Marco Rubio needed to turn to John Kasich and make the case that the Ohio governor was an unacceptable standard-bearer for the Republican party.
Kasich always ran far enough behind that attacking him always seemed like a waste of debate time and resources. But being the folksy, gosh-golly-gee, “back in Ohio” guy who never attacks anyone else works relatively well if everybody else gets nasty enough. And that’s exactly what happened in the March 3 Detroit debate. Trump, Cruz, and Rubio got in a three-way brawl, and since then Kasich has won 437,215 votes and Rubio has won 293,589. Kasich left the other guys to do the heavy lifting of attacking the front-runner and watched as people gravitated to him as the nice guy who’s tired of these nasty negative attacks.
Rubio — or perhaps Jeb Bush, or anyone else who saw Kasich as stylistic competition — should have said something like . . .
“One of the hardest challenges facing the Republican party is convincing people that there is no free lunch. You can’t get something for nothing. The Democrats are always going to insist that they can promise the moon and someone else will pay for it. Look at Obamacare — they promised lower premiums, you can keep your plan, you can keep your doctor. And during this fight, not only did John Kasich buckle under the pressure and expand Medicaid in his state, over the objections of many of his state’s Republicans, he contended that his critics didn’t understand Christian charity, and smugly offered to buy Bibles for them. At the time we were trying to educate the American people on the full consequences of Obamacare —​ the giant costs it would inflict on individuals and states in the long run — Governor Kasich echoed the Democrats and insisted anyone who opposed adding a lot more people to the Medicaid rolls was cold-hearted and un-Christian. How condescending. How smug. How insulting. With Republicans like that, who needs Democrats?”