Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s strategy is honing in on taking out Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) even as the anti-Trump wing is eager for the governor to drop out of the presidential race.

Kasich came in last place at the Nevada caucuses on Tuesday, but you’d never know it by the optimistic tone his campaign struck as they came out swinging the next morning.

Early Wednesday, the campaign touted a just-released Quinnipiac poll “as a stark reminder for Republicans who want to win the White House that Governor Kasich is far and away the best candidate to carry Ohio in November” — topping Hillary Clinton 54-37 percent in a head-to-head matchup in Ohio and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) 54-35 percent.

The campaign filled the governor’s schedule with stops during the week in Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee.

They launched a large ad buy in Vermont talking of the governor’s “hard scrabble life in a rusty steel town” and a Massachusetts ad stating “over 400,000 new jobs have been created through his leadership.”