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re: 2024 ELECTION: DeSantis Drops OUT of Race & Supports TRUMP
Carnage in Colorado Over TRUMPS' Disqualification: Supreme Court Justices Who Opposed Decision Say It Will Cause Chaos
Childish Republicans Threaten to CANCEL States' Primary and Switch to Caucuses After TRUMP Removed From Colorados' Primary Ballot Due to Insurrection Clause
State GOP issued the threat after Vivek Ramaswamy threatened boycott..TRUMP is vowing to appeal the decision
State court found he engaged in 'insurrection,' triggering 14th Amendment ban
Daily Mail 21 DEC 2023
The Colorado Republican Party has threatened to nix the states' planned primary election if Donald Trumps name isn't allowed on the ballot, replacing it with a caucus instead after a bombshell state supreme court ruling.
The state GOP issued the threat on X after Trump competitor Vivek Ramaswamy threatened to try to take his own name off the ballot in protest.
The threat came during the continuing fallout of the dramatic Colorado Supreme Court ruling barring TRUMP from the ballot under the 14th Amendment's clause on people who have committed 'insurrection' against the U.S.
Even one of the justices serving the state's highest court said in opposing the decision that there was no 'due process', warned it would cause chaos and said he has 'never seen anything like it' in his legal career.
Democrats have won Colorado in the last four general elections and Biden was victorious by 13 points in the state that will have 10 electoral college votes in 2024.
But the result in the Republican primary will still be crucial in deciding who will be on the ticket next November.
Colorado's Republican Party responded when Ramaswamy threatened to pull his name off the ballot and urged rivals Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis and Chris Christie to do the same.
'You won't have to because we will withdraw from the Primary as a Party and convert to a pure caucus system if this is allowed to stand,' the party tweeted.
State GOP chair Dave Williams told NBC News, 'We're at the mercy of the U.S. Supreme Court' and that the state was 'figuring it out as we go.'
'But we'll make our preparations to convert to a caucus while this is all playing out. And if it [a Supreme Court ruling] does not go in our favor, we'll plan to do a caucus. But if it does go in our favor, then nothing will change.'
It is not clear that the state party would be able to pull off such a move. Coloradans voted to switch to a primary in 2019. It would require sign-off from the national GOP, where Trump has outsized influence, but would require state support and might need to overcome a court challenge.
The office of Colorado's Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold, who is ordered in the ruling not to put Trumps name on the ballot, would not likely go along with the new scheme.
'Colorado law does not allow a presidential primary election to be cancelled at the request of a political party,' said Jack Todd, a Griswold spokesman.
'If the Colorado Republican Party attempts to withdraw from the presidential primary or ignore the results of the election, this would likely be a matter for the courts,' he said.
Republicans React to TRUMPS' Disqualification on Colorado Ballot
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WHAT DOES SECTION 3 OF THE 14TH AMENDMENT SAY?
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.
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