Donald Trump Jr. contacted a John Kasich aide about becoming the vice presidential nominee on the GOP ticket, Kasich told CNN's Jake Tapper.
"That's what one of them has told me, yes," the Ohio governor said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union."
Kasich added he "was never interested in being anyone's vice president."
"I'd be the worst vice president," he added. "I have too many opinions."
The New York Times had reported Trump Jr. offered to make Kasich the VP nominee and put him in charge of domestic and foreign policy, a report Donald Trump scoffed at.
Being Trump's VP isn't Kasich's only reservation either. He will not be voting for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton this November, he said.
"I don't know what's going to happen at the end," Kasich told Tapper.
Kasich has not yet given Trump his endorsement either.
"I've had a lot of people pound on me about you need to do this, you need to do this, this is about the party," he said. "And I love my party, but I love my country. And I have to be true to myself. I wish that I could be fully enthusiastic. I can't be."
Trump will have a hard time winning Kasich's home state of Ohio, the governor said. "He's going to win parts of Ohio where people are really hurting and where people of both parties have failed to fix our education system," he said. "But I still think it's difficult if you are dividing to be able to win in Ohio. I think it's really, really difficult."
Kasich had raised eyebrows by skipping the Republican National Convention in his home state.
"If I wasn't prepared to go there and get up and endorse a nominee, I just thought it was inappropriate to go into that convention hall," Kasich said. "Some people are really furious with me about that. But I did what I thought I needed to do.
"Believe it or not, I wanted to show respect to the nominee."
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