I think he made the same kind of mistake that you just did above when you wrote "lamp stand".
If you read the article, he said "lamp post". He's wrong, of course, but I think it was just one of those slips that happens in life.
FWIW, it's easy to check throughout FR and discover that I'm a Trump supporter. I'm also a retired Army chaplain and a Christian minister. I'm not going to say that Trump made an awful slip-up uniting Christ and the Passover when it is directly said by the Apostle Paul, and is alluded to throughout the entire New Testament. My point is simply that Kasich is not wrong on his Christianity.
He might have picked a bad setting.
Ok, that is silly. It is not the same level of mistake. In my case I was talking about the word of Kasich, which might be a little less important than the word of God. I also said something that was nearly equivalent and not completely different.
Secondly, if one is running for President, it is not the time to try to do apologetics with the same people you are trying to convince to vote for you. Kind of like hey vote for me, and btw the guy your religion rejects as an apostate, he is actually the true Messiah...let me see if I can get my facts straight to convince you....Talmud you say? Hmmm, ok...uhm....