Oh, they absolutely have at least this in common: they want the same political reality of *populist* "conservatives" versus out-of-touch coastal liberals, and they ignore that the vast majority of voters are not close to either of those things.
I love how they ignore the fact that Johnson, Toomey, Rubio, Portman, etc. (and most other Republican Senators, for that matter) outperformed Trump or that Kasich was polling a lot better than Trump in basically every GE poll, ESPECIALLY in those Midwestern states everyone now fetishizes so much.
Kasich only polled well because he was seen as 'the anti trump' and had no real defined identity of his own. No real scrutiny was given to his record, positions or personality. Now he obviously could have won if he was the nominee (emphasis on could) but these polls really mean very little
