John Kasich serves up bacon Snapchat filter in New Hampshire
Snapchat users in New Hampshire woke up Wednesday morning to a greasy surprise.
As Ohio Gov. John Kasich toured the through the state, Granite Staters had the option to apply a filter to their snaps with the Republican president’s logo inscribed in bacon.
Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel, who was covering Kasich’s campaign, Snapchatted the candidate speaking with the filter, which exclaims “Good Morning New Hampshire’’ at the top of the screen.
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According to the Post, the filter was available for a limited time Wednesday morning.
Despite his past <a href=”calling for federal budget cuts in the U.S. House of Representatives, Kasich appears to be a fan of pork.
After eating three pork chops at the Iowa State Fair, Kasich is returning to the state later in September for a pork roast, according to the Des Moines Register.
So perhaps he was taking his love of pork and shrewdly applying it to Granite Staters’ love of breakfast.
“Budget pork isn’t our taste but who doesn’t love bacon and, of course, who doesn’t love Snapchat? You’ve got to have some fun with it all, right?’’ a Kasich spokesman told TIME on Wednesday.
This isn’t the first time a GOP hopeful has utilized the breakfast food in the 2016 presidential campaign. Last month Texas Sen. Ted Cruz shot a video in which he showed how the Lone Star State cooked bacon “a little differently.’’
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Apparently in the Republican primary — unlike inBritish campaigns — bacon is seen as a means of political gain.
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