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Ramaswamy calls for all GOP hopefuls to withdraw from CO ballot after judges boot Trump

December 20, 2023 | | Print Article

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy reacted strongly to the Colorado Supreme Court’s brazen effort to influence the 2024 election by banning GOP frontrunner Donald J. Trump from the ballot.

A fierce critic of the corrupt establishment, the political newcomer called for his fellow Republican White House hopefuls to withdraw from the state’s ballot in a show of solidarity with Trump against the leftist court’s attack on democracy.

“I pledge to withdraw from the Colorado GOP primary ballot until Trump is also allowed to be on the ballot, and I demand that Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, and Nikki Haley do the same immediately – or else they are tacitly endorsing this illegal maneuver which will have disastrous consequences for our country.” Ramaswamy wrote on X, previously Twitter, along with a short video denouncing the Tuesday ruling.

“This is what an *actual* attack on democracy looks like: in an un-American, unconstitutional, and *unprecedented* decision, a cabal of Democrat judges are barring Trump from the ballot in Colorado. Having tried every trick in the book to eliminate President Trump from running in this election, the bipartisan Establishment is now deploying a new tactic to bar him from ever holding office again: the 14th Amendment,” the biotech entrepreneur said in an earlier post to X after news of the court’s decision broke.

Democrats and their anti-Trump allies have in Ramaswamy’s words “bastardized” the Constitution to use language from the Civil War-era amendment to eliminate the only serious threat to their consolidated power by defining an election integrity protest that spiraled badly out of control as an “insurrection” as if the January 6, 2021 chaos at the Capitol had a serious chance at overthrowing the entire U.S. government.

“The 14th Amendment was part of the ‘Reconstruction Amendments’ that were ratified following the Civil War. It was passed to prohibit former Confederate military and political leaders from holding high federal or state office. These men had clearly taken part in a rebellion against the United States: the Civil War. That makes it all the more absurd that a left-wing group in Colorado is asking a federal court to disqualify the 45th President on the same grounds, equating his speech to rebellion against the United States,” Ramaswamy wrote in his lengthy X post.

Other GOP candidates in the shrunken field also reacted to the Mile High madness in Denver.

“The Left invokes “democracy” to justify its use of power, even if it means abusing judicial power to remove a candidate from the ballot based on spurious legal grounds. SCOTUS should reverse,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wrote on X, sharing a tweet of dancing bananas from Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) who slammed the “lawless thuggery masquerading as jurisprudence.”

Former South Carolina governor and U.S. ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, the establishment’s pick told reporters, “we don’t need to have judges making these decisions. We need voters to make these decisions. So I want to see this in the hands of the voters. We’re going to win this the right way,” Fox News reported.

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One-issue candidate, former New Jersey governor Chris Christie who was campaigning in the critical early-voting state of New Hampshire said that the ruling was “probably premature” because Trump hasn’t been convicted for his role in J6 yet.

“I do not believe Donald Trump should be prevented from being President of the United States by any court. I think he should be prevented from being President of the United States by the voters of this country,” he said, according to Fox News.

One Republican who isn’t on the ballot, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) who is clearly no fan of Ramaswamy, suggested that he should withdraw in other states too.

In another post to X, the Texas lawmaker said, “You can have your own opinions, but here’s the thing: American citizens have the right to vote for whoever they want. That’s democracy,” expressing optimism that the United States Supreme Court would smack down the Colorado ruling.

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Always quick to respond, Ramaswamy zinged Crenshaw.

“The Framers of the 14th Amendment would be appalled to see this narrow provision—intended to bar former U.S. officials who switched to the Confederacy from seeking public office—being weaponized by a sitting President and his political allies to prevent a former President from seeking reelection. Our country is becoming unrecognizable to our Founding Fathers,” Ramaswamy said.

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