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.
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.
Fun fact: it’s still killing #GOP suckers disproportionately.
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Yeah, what better way to ensure victory than to restrict ballot access? Let’s test that theory by letting both him and DeSantis be on the ballot only in Mississippi!
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.
He doesn’t have to. Republicans have never allowed the truth to get in the way of a good victimhood narrative before. Why start now?
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
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.”
Now go look at hard it is to change your registered party in Colorado. It takes about 5 minutes. And I think the only thing it really affects for most people is which primary they vote in. So while there’s one more step than “think you’d like to” it’s not by much.
Ok. Let’s assume I am, in fact, currently registered as a Democrat. Am I never allowed to change that affiliation?
Oh, I can change that affiliation?
What are the requirements to change my party affiliation again? Is “I think I’d like to vote in the Republican Primary” a sufficient reason?
That’s fair. But it’s also true that the actual Republican petitioners in the case (five of the seven) are very long time Republicans who have been notable in party politics in the state.
Oh, Ronny Two-boots is absolutely a professional victim. He’s a disgusting, cowardly human being that only knows how to punch down. Here’s hoping the DoJ is just sitting on the Human Trafficking charges till he’s out of office.