While some of you who watched February 18’s GOP Town Hall might have assumed John Kasich’s earnest admission that he’s a huge fan of Fall Out Boy and Linkin Park was an authentic little hiccup, you have obviously not been paying attention. To the newly-discovered delight of us all, Kasich’s musical flirtation with the latter has been long established.
Last year, the presidential hopeful reportedly attempted to bond with some random people just trying to get their drink on at a biker bar (which prompted the New Republic to ask “who is John Kasich even pandering to?”). As Politico’s Katie Glueck tweeted, when the politician was asked to “elaborate” on his love of LP, he only answered with a quick rejoinder: “Well I like Linkin Park and I’m not talking about Chicago.”
His fandom can feasibly be documented as far back as 2013, when, as a very grown man, he tweeted to his constituents about attending one of their concerts in 2013—a concert that, in his estimation, was an “awesome performance.”