Gov. John Kasich is that gnat you just can’t swat away, annoying the anti-Trump voters who are looking to consolidate behind one candidate.

On Tuesday, Kasich didn’t even accrue any delegates to add to his stockpile of 143 — the least of any candidate remaining in the presidential race. He’s not going to get to 1,237 delegates, he doesn’t qualify under the current rules to even be considered for the nomination at the convention — so what exactly is he doing by staying in the race?

If Kasich is waiting for his shining moment, he already had it when he won his home state of Ohio, but rest assured he will not achieve victory anywhere else. Since his win in Ohio, Kasich hasn’t gained any momentum or delegates. Donald Trump now needs to win 53 percent of the remaining delegates, Sen. Ted Cruz needs 82 percent, and Kasich needs an impossible 116 percent to clinch the nomination.

When everyone else saw there was no path forward for their candidacy, they dropped out. Gov. Jeb Bush, Gov. Scott Walker, Dr. Ben Carson, Sen. Marco Rubio — just to name a few.

So is Kasich staying in to actually deny Cruz and enable Trump even though he has publicly shot down a joint-ticket? Or is he staying in because he thinks if he drops out he risks his supporters turning to Trump instead of Cruz, handing Trump the nomination?

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Who knows. All that anyone knows is that Kasich doesn’t want to be vice president. “I will not be anybody’s vice president, just so you know,” Kasich said at a town hall in Wisconsin.

Cruz is the only candidate in the Republican field who can challenge GOP front-runner Trump. In recent days the Establishment has been coalescing around Cruz, who was previously seen as an enemy to the Establishment.

Kasich has argued that he doesn’t believe Cruz can win any of the moderate East Coast contests, such as Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Rhode Island. While Kasich is trumpeting his “almost” wins in states such as New Hampshire and Massachusetts, that doesn’t mean he can carry the states in a region where he has come in second to Trump. Current polling from Franklin & Marshall has Kasich second to Trump in Pennsylvania, which borders his home state of Ohio. But even if he wins there, he would have only won two states — six states short of what’s needed to qualify for an open convention.

As it stands now, Cruz has won a total of nine states — enough to meet the eight-state threshold to qualify for the nomination at the GOP convention in July, according to the current rules. But the catch of the rule is that the winner of the state needs to secure a majority of the delegates. So far, Cruz has won a majority of the delegates in five out of the nine states he has won. While in recent weeks, Cruz has been able to secure a consensus around his campaign as the only candidate to beat Trump, his numbers are still well short of what’s needed to even qualify — meaning that Kasich’s one state gives him less of a shot.

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Every convention has the right to set the number of states needed to secure a nomination as mentioned in Rule 40 — meaning there is no way to predict what will happen until the delegates for the convention are selected. Therefore, rules can be changed up until the day before the convention.

In previous years, the rule stated that a candidate needed to win a majority of delegates in five states, so if the rules changed back to its previous standard only Cruz would qualify.

Kasich is trailing both Trump and Cruz when it comes to delegates, state victories, and he is an insider who is lacking Establishment support. Needless to say his path to the nomination is over.

Yet on and on he goes.