Ramaswamy vows to 'withdraw' from Colorado ballot over Trump removal

Republican Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has vowed to withdraw from the GOP primary ballot in Colorado This decision comes in response to a recent ruling by the states Supreme Court which removed former President Donald Trump from the ballot due to his involvement in the January 6 2021 Capitol attack In a narrow 43 decision Colorados highest court invoked the 14th Amendments insurrection clause to kick off TrumpThe court concluded that Trumps actions including spreading false claims of election fraud and directing supporters to the Capitol amounted to engaging in insurrection Colorado has thus become the first state to prevent Trump from seeking the presidency based on his role in the Capitol attack The Hill reportedThe insurrection clause bars the holding of any officeunder the United States if a person engaged in insurrection after swearing to support the Constitution as an officer of the United States The Colorado Supreme Court determined that this clause applies to the office of the president the report addedI pledge to withdraw from the Colorado GOP primary unless Trump is also allowed to be on the states ballot and I demand that Ron DeSantis Chris Christie and Nikki Haley to do the same immediately or else they are tacitly endorsing this illegal manoeuvre which will have disastrous consequences for our country Ramaswamy posted on X calling out his fellow candidates in the GOP presidential primaryThis is what an actual attack on democracy looks like in an unAmerican 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 his post also readAnother key GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie also weighed in on the Colorado Supreme Courts decision arguing that it is voters and not the courts that should decide if Trump should be prevented from being reelected to the White House according to The Hill What I will say is I do not believe Donald Trump should be prevented from being President of the United States by any court Christie said adding I think he should be prevented from being the President of the United States by the voters of this countryIn a statement Tuesday Christie said he doesnt believe its good for the US if Trump is kept off the ballot by a court I think its bad for the country if that happens Christie said adding Now the other reason I believe that is because you know he will have had to incite insurrection be a part of an insurrection for him to be excluded Theres been no trial of him on that The Hill reportedThe Colorado Supreme Court has removed former US President Donald Trump from the states 2024 ballot ruling that he isnt an eligible presidential candidate because of the 14th Amendments insurrectionist ban CNN reported As per CNN the ruling will be placed on hold until January 4 pending Trumps appeal to the US Supreme Court which could settle the matter for the nationThe state Supreme Court decision only applies to Colorado but the historic ruling will roil the 2024 presidential campaign Colorado election officials have said the matter needs to be settled by January 5 which is the statutory deadline to set the list of candidates for the GOP primary scheduled for March 5The majority wrote in its unsigned opinion President Trump did not merely incite the insurrection Even when the siege on the Capitol was fully underway he continued to support it by repeatedly demanding that Vice President Mike Pence refuse to perform his constitutional duty and by calling Senators to persuade them to stop the counting of electoral votes These actions constituted overt voluntary and direct participation in the insurrectionWe conclude that the foregoing evidence the great bulk of which was undisputed at trial established that President Trump engaged in insurrection President Trumps direct and express efforts over several months exhorting his supporters to march to the Capitol to prevent what he falsely characterised as an alleged fraud on the people of this country were indisputably overt and voluntary the opinion added as per CNNThe court in addition rejected Trumps free speech claims writing President Trumps speech on January 6 was not protected by the First Amendment All seven justices on the Colorado Supreme Court were appointed by Democratic governors Six of the seven subsequently won statewide retention elections to stay on the bench The seventh was only appointed in 2021 and hasnt yet faced voters as per CNNThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in 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