DeSantis says no to Ramaswamy’s name to take away himself from Colorado poll after Trump ruling
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis dismissed calls to take away his identify from Colorado’s major poll by fellow GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy in protest of the state’s excessive courtroom disqualifying former President Donald Trump.
“I think that’s just playing into the left,” Mr. DeSantis advised Newsmax’s “Newsline” Wednesday. “I’ve qualified for all the ballots. I’m competing in all the states, and I’m going to accumulate the delegates necessary. That’s the whole name of the game in this situation.”
The Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling Tuesday stated the previous president engaged in an rebel together with his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The 4-3 determination stated Mr. Trump is disqualified from holding the presidency beneath Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, and the courtroom eliminated his identify from the state’s March 5 GOP major poll.
Mr. DeSantis stated he believes the ruling in opposition to Mr. Trump is “political” and can “get reversed.”
Mr. Ramaswamy introduced Tuesday that he would take away his identify from the Colorado major poll and would put his identify again the poll provided that the ruling is overturned. He referred to as on Mr. DeSantis and the opposite candidates — former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley — to withdraw their names.
He referred to as the ruling an “attack on democracy.”
“I pledge to withdraw from the Colorado GOP primary unless Trump is also allowed to be on the state’s ballot, and I demand that Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, and Nikki Haley to do the same immediately — or else they are tacitly endorsing this illegal maneuver which will have disastrous consequences for our country,” Mr. Ramaswamy wrote on X Tuesday.
At a marketing campaign occasion Wednesday in Iowa, Mr. DeSantis stated the Colorado Supreme Court’s determination was an instance of Democrats and media allies working collectively to energise Mr. Trump‘s major base to allow them to deal with his authorized points within the common election.
“That’s their plan. That’s what they want. What they don’t want is to have somebody like me, who will make the election not about those other issues but make the election about the failures of Biden, the failures of the left, and how we’re going to be able to turn the country around,” Mr. DeSantis stated. “If that’s how the election is framed, we will win.”
