In a haze of self-awareness John Kasich descended the fire escape of an Elks Club in New Hampshire last weekend. This was a day before the Iowa caucus, when all of the presidential hopefuls were campaigning in Iowa, except for him. Instead, he was entertaining a small crowd of supporters for his 85th Town Hall meeting. At one point he even did a Houdini impression, by tucking his arms into his shirt and then pulling his shirt over the top of his head.

“I would like to do ‘Town Halls’ like this everywhere I go,” he said to a handful of journalists and bloggers outside of his tour bus. “I would like to be able to put gang planks up and walk around the crowd and take questions because people need to hear you. I am not comfortable with the notion of just TV advertisements, I would really like for people to ask me hard questions.”

The moderate Republican is known for his somewhat libertarian views of government, while also retaining a bit of liberal flair, enough to earn him the endorsements of The Boston Globe, The New York Times and seven out of eight newspapers in New Hampshire.

A notable moment from the Town Hall meeting was when Kasich said that he will propose a bill to end all government regulation. He made this statement in front of a large green scoreboard that tallied the country’s debt down to the last digit. The probability of his winning the Iowa caucus was negligible according to a recent Quinnipiac poll that placed Kasich eighth among Republicans presidential candidates in the state. That may have been a contributing factor to Kasich’s bus tour of New Hampshire the day before. There is basically no way Kasich can win the election at this point, and I'm sure he's well aware, but many may not be cognizant of the apocalypse as it's happening. Furthermore, no one can never know what is going on in the mind of John Kasich, unless you are John Kasich or have placed his mind in a vat somewhere and with electrodes, synced up to him. Yet, when asked why he wasn’t in Iowa that day he said, “Look, the challenge of Iowa is there is five media markets, in order to go from city to city you have to fly. When I go from city to city or community to community, I take a bus in New Hampshire.”

Governor Kasich will continue to focus his campaign efforts in New Hampshire before the state’s primary on Tuesday, Feb. 9, when he will face off with front runners Trump and Cruz in the Granite State.