Days after the Colorado Supreme Court barred former president Donald Trump from the state’s ballot, other states plan to follow suit ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
According to Town Hall, California’s Democrat Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis sent Secretary of State Shirley Weber a letter urging her to “explore every legal option to remove former President Donald Trump from California’s 2024 presidential primary ballot.”
“California must stand on the right side of history,” Kounalakis’s letter added. “California is obligated to determine if Trump is ineligible for the California ballot for the same reasons described in Anderson,” the case decided by Colorado’s high court on Tuesday evening. “The Colorado decision can be the basis for a similar decision here in our state,” Kounalakis insisted.
Some Republicans and political insiders, however, contend that the Colorado Supreme Court ruling would only increase support for Trump as he seeks to win the Republican nomination in 2024.
“They’re pissed,” one source familiar with discussions involving senior White House and Biden campaign officials said, adding that the ruling makes it look “like Colorado is attempting election interference through non-elected Democratic-appointed justices with funding from ‘shady left-wing donors.”
“We all hope Biden wakes up on Christmas morning to an A3 story in the Delaware News Journal saying that the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 in favor of Trump,” the person added.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who endorsed Trump last month, called the decision “a thinly veiled partisan attack” on Trump.
