With less than a month to go before voting begins, Donald Trump‘s Republican rivals are once again rallying to his defense, this time after Colorado’s Supreme Court ruled to remove him from the state’s presidential primary ballot under the U.S. Constitution’s insurrection clause.
Just as they had following Trump’s successive indictments as he racked up 91 criminal charges, the GOP front-runner’s opponents cast the landmark decision — the first time in history the 14th Amendment has been used to disqualify a presidential candidate and one the former president has vowed to appeal — as inappropriate, a “stunt” and an “attack on democracy.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis charged the court’s ruling was a plot to ensure Trump wins the nomination because Democrats view him as the weakest Republican candidate.
What a weird ass primary. For anyone else they’d be leaping to take advantage of this ruling to take down the front-runner. Here they’re defending the guy they’re supposedly running against. They just seem like they’re the back-up candidates in case Trump gets arrested finally OR they’re really just running for the VP position, since Pence obviously isn’t getting picked up again.
I think they know that they can’t beat DJT in the normal process. They also know that if DJT gets sent to prison and they’re the nominee, DJT voters are very likely to stay home (and will be positively vengeful if the candidate had criticized DJT on the way out).
They (well, Haley and DeSantis) are in my judgment sticking as close as they can to DJT while desperately hoping that Scowling Jack Smith takes Trump down before the election.
