I do not want to speculate whether or not Kasich will jump into the POTUS sweepstakes-—way to early for that.
But I am originally from OH and his Kasich’s victory carrying all of the state’s heavily Democrat urban counties and winning about 1/3 of the black vote in that state is nothing short of being a smashing victory by any reasonable measure. People pay attention to thing like that.
His impressive reelection win though won’t impact a presidential race, even in OH, in my opinion. Except for Romney and Dewey in 1944, haven’t all the GOp candidates won their home states? Even Ford took MI in 1976.