With less than a month to go before voting begins, Donald Trump‘s Republican rivals are once again rallying to his defense, this time 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 as he racked up 91 criminal charges, the GOP front-runner’s opponents cast the landmark decision — the first time in history the 14th Amendment has been used to disqualify a presidential candidate and one the former president has vowed to appeal — 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.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Nobody on those debate stages is actually running for president. They’re all auditioning for Trump’s VP slot. Except perhaps Vivek Ramaswamy, who seems to be trying to use his presidential run to launch some sort of career as a right wing media personality.
I agree with that. It’s a kind of performance art piece with that goal. Additionally, it makes Trump look more attractive to the extreme right part of the base. They all look at him ignoring the debates and see it as a sign of how strong he is rather than how afraid he is.
I disagree, they’re also hoping to gain Trump’s supporter base if Trump is out of the election, I’ve already heard “We’ll avenge Trump” rhetoric from Desantis