If SCOTUS doesn’t step in soon things are about to get really interesting.
Texas Lt. Gov @DanPatrick flips script on Democrats after Trump gets barred from ballot in Colorado:
"Maybe we should take Joe Biden off the ballot in Texas for allowing 8 million people to cross the border since he’s been President.”
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) December 20, 2023
BREAKING: Ron DeSantis reacts to Colorado Supreme Court ruling at a campaign event this morning
"There was no trial on any of this! […] Could we just say that Biden can't be on the ballot because he let in 8 million illegals into the country, and violated the Constitution?" pic.twitter.com/JTdWPHZvNz
— Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) December 20, 2023
Some Republican officials outraged by the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to boot Donald Trump off the state’s primary ballot have suggested doing the same to President Biden in their states.
Trump was disqualified by a 4-3 decision on Tuesday after the Centennial State’s highest court concluded that the 77-year-old’s actions on Jan. 6, 2021, “constituted overt, voluntary and direct participation in the insurrection” by his supporters at the US Capitol.
Many Republicans peddling the tit-for-tat idea suggested it as a thought experiment to give Democrats a taste of their own medicine, rather than a serious legal undertaking.
“Seeing what happened in Colorado makes me think — except we believe in democracy in Texas — maybe we should take Joe Biden off the ballot in Texas for allowing 8 million people to cross the border since he’s been president, disrupting our state far more than anything anyone else has done in recent history,” Lone Star State Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham Tuesday night.
Breaking — California begins effort to remove Trump from 2024 ballot.
California Lt. Gov. @EleniForCA writes to Secretary of State Shirley Weber to “explore every legal option to remove former President Donald Trump from California’s 2024 presidential primary ballot.”
Letter here: pic.twitter.com/HoGZdjLmNy
— Christopher Cadelago (@ccadelago) December 20, 2023