Non-Trump GOP Rivals Still Unwilling To Use Trump’s Jan. 6 Coup Attempt Against Him
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Even after the Colorado Supreme Court found that Trump’s actions disqualified him from federal office, his rivals attacked the court rather than blame Trump.
WASHINGTON ― With voting now just 26 days away, the non-Donald Trump candidates are again opting not to exploit his greatest vulnerability: The continuing legal consequences of his Jan. 6, 2021, coup attempt.
After Tuesday’s decision by the Colorado Supreme Court that Trump had, in fact, engaged in an insurrection and was therefore ineligible under the Constitution to hold federal office, his rivals for the 2024 GOP nomination are attacking the justices who issued that ruling, rather than Trump for his actions leading up to and on that day.
“There was no trial on any of this. They basically just said: ‘Well, you can’t be on the ballot.’ How does that work?” said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Wednesday morning at an appearance in Urbandale, Iowa. “Could we just say that Biden can’t be on the ballot because he let in 8 million illegals into the country and violated the Constitution, which he has? Could we just say, ‘Oh, well, they have money coming to Hunter, whatever?’”
“The last thing we want is judges telling us who can and can’t be on the ballot,” former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley told reporters Tuesday night in Iowa, the site of the first election contest of the 2024 primary season on Jan. 15.
Even former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has been the most critical of Trump’s post-election behavior, said the matter was not for the courts. “It would cause a lot of anger in this country if people had the choice taken away from them,” he told a New Hampshire audience Tuesday evening.
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