The move by the Colorado Supreme Court to remove former President Donald Trump from the ballot of the March 5 Republican presidential primary there and the general election should he be nominated in Nov. 2024 is causing Republicans including his opponents to predictably circle the wagons around Trump, and it appears to be causing fissures among Democrats as well who see the move will only help Trump.
Writing for NBC News, Jonathan Allen, Katherine Doyle and Dasha Burns write, “Colorado hands Trump a political gift by barring him from the ballot,” in which even Democrats worry that the push to disenfranchise Trump and his millions of supporters will backfire and help Trump in the general election against incumbent President Joe Biden, who is already trailing Trump in national polls with less than a year to go to the election.
The story says that the Biden campaign is actually worried about the blowback involved, quoting a source saying of the White House and the Biden campaign: “They’re pissed… [because it makes it look] like Colorado is attempting election interference through non-elected Democratic-appointed justices with funding from ‘shady leftwing donors.’” The source added, “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.”
