With less than a month to go before voting begins, Donald Trumpā€˜s Republican rivals are once again rallying to his defense, this time after Coloradoā€™s Supreme Court ruled to remove him from the stateā€™s presidential primary ballot under the U.S. Constitutionā€™s insurrection clause.

Just as they had following Trumpā€™s successive indictments as he racked up 91 criminal charges, the GOP front-runnerā€™s opponents cast the landmark decision ā€” 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 ā€” as inappropriate, a ā€œstuntā€ and an ā€œattack on democracy.ā€

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis charged the courtā€™s ruling was a plot to ensure Trump wins the nomination because Democrats view him as the weakest Republican candidate.

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    For the life of me I just canā€™t understand whoā€™s donating to these people. Like who are their supporters? They literally arenā€™t trying to win. Their entire thing is cow-towing to a different candidate. Whatā€™s the point of them even being there? Like I get most of them are it to make money I get that. But why are people paying them?

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      Corpo donors probably donā€™t care about them winning the presidency. Theyā€™re doing it to get their foot in the door when the primary candidates inevitably end up in office positions.

      Donations from the general public? I have no fuckin idea what the reasoning there could be

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      I figure itā€™s a race for second in the hope that the first place guy will get disqualified and/or imprisoned. So they try to look like the obvious replacement for the guy the base canā€™t have.

      Or, if Trump is able to run, they want to be on his good side just in case.