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Watch Kasich squirm --- if he is not truthful in his negative ads I will sue him just for fun!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 20, 2015

Kasich let loose on Trump in his own anti-Trump Twitter tirade, accusing Trump of flip-flopping on issues and supporting Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton, and criticizing certain policy statements the real estate mogul has made. He even suggested Trump was a fan of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who many Republican candidates characterize as a foe of the United States.

.@realdonaldtrump thinks Ukraine should stay out of NATO. DT??VPhttps://t.co/vYjzYtwDu0

— John Kasich (@JohnKasich) November 20, 2015

It’s a long way from when Kasich refused to criticize Trump during the first GOP debate in August — he said then that Trump was “hitting a nerve in this country” — but not too far off from his attack on Trump in last week’s Republican debate in Milwaukee.

When asked about Trump’s anti-Kasich tweets, a spokesman for Kasich’s campaign, Rob Nichols, told ABC News: \"This is hilarious to watch. No one loses it that bad unless, for some reason, they're feeling very insecure.”

New Day for America said it had already spent $11.5 million on television advertising on New Hampshire- and Boston-area media from the summer through the Granite State's primary in early February. This campaign will take $600,000 from that existing buy and add $1.9 million more, approximately 70 percent of which will go to television advertisements and the rest of which will be spread across radio, digital and mail advertising, David said.

Kasich’s chief strategist, John Weaver, sent an email to Kasich supporters late tonight soliciting donations “to help us push back” against what he called Trump’s \"epic twitter rant.\"

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