If it wasn’t for all those cooking housewives, John Kasich wouldn’t be going anywhere.

The Ohio governor raised eyebrows Monday when he credited “many women who left their kitchens” to campaign for him in his state.

“How did I get elected?” he rhetorically asked an audience in Fairfax, Virginia. “I didn’t have anybody for me, we just got an army of people and many women who left their kitchens to go out and go door-to-door and to put yard signs up for me.”

He lamented, “Now you call homes and everybody’s out working.”

During a question and answer portion of his event, a young woman chided him for his remark.

“Your comment earlier about the women who came out of the kitchen to support you, I’ll come to support you, but I won’t be coming out of the kitchen,” she said.

“I got ya,” he replied.