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.
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.
The amount of sheer illogic needed to make each Republican the victim of a Democrat plot is hilarious.
Remember when telling people to get COVID shots was a Democratic plot to kill Republicans because Democrats knew they’d just do the opposite of whatever they were told?
Same thing here.
I see DeSantis’s statements as a grifter testing new material. They already know most of their base can be won over by strong man talk and logical fallacies because Trump won using both. Here, DeSantis is pushing even further outside of logic to see if his marks will swallow it.
I wonder how he squares the fact that the petitioners were Republicans and independents - you know, people who are qualified to vote in the Republican primary.
The only requirement to vote in the Republican Primary is “I think I’d like to vote in the Republican Primary this year.”
https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/FAQs/primaryElectionsFAQ.html
Q2. Who can vote in a Primary Election?
A2. During either the Presidential or June primary:
- Voters affiliated with a major party: may cast a ballot for candidates of the party they are affiliated with.
- Voters affiliated with a minor party: if there is a minor party contest those affiliated with that minor party may cast a ballot for those candidates.
- Unaffiliated voters: An unaffiliated voter may cast a ballot for any one political party. If an unaffiliated voter returns a ballot with more than one political party, the ballot will be rejected and none of the votes will be counted.
If you are registered with a specific party, you may not vote in another party’s primary in the state of Colorado, even if you “think you’d like to.”
“Hey fuys i know we’re all running against him, but maybe if we all suck his dick at the same time he and his supporters won’t be so mean to us, I’m sure this time will be different”
I guess what they don’t seem to understand (or are unwilling to understand) is that the more they prop him up, the less influence they have over the party and the much lower chance they have to win the presidency.
Of all the people to stand behind to the end of the earth, they choose this guy?
Not only that, but he has shown time and time again that loyalty only goes one way, and he will throw them under the bus the first chance he gets.
an “attack on democracy.”
No you see, this is the real attack on democracy, not the attack on the capitol building intended to overturn the democratic results of the election.
