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Anthony J Hilder on December 21, 2023

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Even Trump's GOP Rivals Rally to His Defense After 'Unfair' Colo. Ballot Ruling https://www.newsmax.com/politics/trump-campaign-rivals-colorado-ballot-court/2023/12/20/id/1146705/?ns_mail_uid=6027034f-006f-40ef-b94b-fe4719b97a24&ns_mail_job=DM560516_12212023&s=acs&dkt_nbr=0105040gp8zb Home | Politic... View MoreEven Trump's GOP Rivals Rally to His Defense After 'Unfair' Colo. Ballot Ruling https://www.newsmax.com/politics/trump-campaign-rivals-colorado-ballot-court/2023/12/20/id/1146705/?ns_mail_uid=6027034f-006f-40ef-b94b-fe4719b97a24&ns_mail_job=DM560516_12212023&s=acs&dkt_nbr=0105040gp8zb Home | Politics Tags: Trump campaign rivals Colorado ballot court Even Trump's GOP Rivals Rally to His Defense After 'Unfair' Colo. Ballot Ruling Wednesday, 20 December 2023 07:53 PM EST With less than a month to go before voting begins, Donald Trump 's Republican rivals are rallying to his defense 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, the GOP front-runner’s opponents cast the landmark court decision — the first time in history the 14th Amendment has been used to disqualify a presidential candidate — 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. “Look, it’s unfair. They’re abusing power, 100%,” he told an audience in Urbandale, Iowa, on Wednesday morning. “But the question is: Is that going to work? And I think they have a playbook that unfortunately will work and it’ll give Biden or the Democrat or whoever, the ability to skate through this thing. That’s their plan.” The court's ruling -- Trump has vowed a speedy appeal to the Supreme Court -- once again highlighted a defining dynamic of the GOP primary: While the trail of lawsuits and criminal charges following Trump had been expected by many critics to seriously damage his candidacy, they have instead had the opposite effect, particularly among Republicans. Primary voters — including many who had been open to backing rival candidates — have rallied around the former president, who has cast himself as the victim of a politically motivated effort by Democrat President Joe Biden and his administration to damage his chief political rival. “I think that it confirms Americans' deepest suspicions that many of our institutions can be weaponized against them.

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December 21, 2023