Vivek Ramaswamy Pledges to Withdraw from Colorado Primary Unless Trump is Reinstated [Video]

As Breaking Digest previously reported, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled to disqualify Trump from the 2024 ballot on Tuesday.

All seven justices of the Colorado Supreme Court were appointed by Democrats, Four of whom voted in favor of disqualifying Trump and three dissented.

The four judges who voted in favor of removing President Trump are:

All 7 Colorado Supreme Court Justices were appointed by Democrats. 3 of them dissented with the ruling to bar Trump.

Here are the 4 that voted for. pic.twitter.com/oDl6c8acX9

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The leftist justices accused Trump of an insurrection despite the fact that Trump hasn’t faced charges related to insurrection or rebellion against the United States.

Democrats are attempting to dictate the selection of the Republican Party nominee, similar to how the Communist Party controls nominations in present-day Hong Kong. This is a hallmark of a totalitarian regime.

Following this, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy announced on Tuesday evening his withdrawal from the Colorado primary until President Trump is reinstated.

Ramaswamy also demanded that the other candidates – Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, and Nikki Haley do the exact same thing to not let the Democrats get away with what they’re doing to Trump.

🚨BREAKING: Vivek Ramaswamy pledges to WITHDRAW from the Colorado GOP primary unless Trump is also allowed to be on the state’s ballot.

Also, Ramaswamy demands that Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, and Nikki Haley to do the same immediately. Ramaswamy is a man with integrity! pic.twitter.com/dHW9ItE7eO

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Here’s the official statement from Vivek Ramaswamy on X:

They have just tried to bar President Trump from the Colorado ballot using an unconstitutional maneuver that is a bastardization of the 14th Amendment to our U.S. Constitution. This was a provision, section three, that was designed to bar Confederate members, people who switched to the Confederacy, from actually being able to serve. That’s very different than what’s at issue here, to say the least.

This is a hollowed out husk of what the country was built on. The basic principle that we the people, select our leadership, not the unelected elite class in the back of palace halls. That’s old world Europe, not the United States. That’s why I’m making a pledge today that I will withdraw. I pledge to withdraw from the Colorado GOP primary ballot unless and until Trump’s name is restored.

And I demand that Ron DeSantis and Chris Christie and Nikki Haley do the same thing, or else these Republicans are simply complicit in this unconstitutional attack on the way we conduct our constitutional republic.

I refuse to be complicit in that. I think what they’re doing is wrong, and I think it’s up to Republicans to step up and stand up with a spine for our country’s future. That’s really what’s at stake, whether we, the people, actually have a say in deciding who leads this country. Yes, it would be easier for other Republicans like me, who are running in this race, to say, hey, if Trump is sidelined, there’s our opportunity.

I think the most useful thing that every GOP candidate can do right now is to join me in that pledge. I’ll say that I will withdraw from that Colorado GOP primary ballot until Trump’s name is restored. This belongs to the people, not to the unelected democratic cabal of judges in Colorado or any other state.

And I demand that Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley and Chris Christie do the same thing, or else they’re complicit in what this security state is trying to do to shut down Trump. I stand by that, and I expect them to do the right thing.

Watch:

I pledge to withdraw from the Colorado GOP primary ballot until Trump is also allowed to be on the ballot, and I demand that Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, and Nikki Haley do the same immediately – or else they are tacitly endorsing this illegal maneuver which will have disastrous… pic.twitter.com/qbpNf9L3ln

— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) December 20, 2023

From The Post Millennial:

Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy spoke out after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump could be removed from the Colorado 2024 ballot for the crime of insurrection, for which Trump has neither been charged nor convicted.
“This is what an actual attack on democracy looks like,” Ramaswamy said, “in an un-American, unconstitutional, and unprecedented decision, a cabal of Democrat judges are barring Trump from the ballot in Colorado. Having tried every trick in the book to eliminate President Trump from running in this election, the bipartisan Establishment is now deploying a new tactic to bar him from ever holding office again: the 14th Amendment,” he said.

“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,” Ramaswamy continued.

“Today’s decision is the latest election interference tactic to silence political opponents and swing the election for whatever puppet the Democrats put up this time by depriving Americans of the right to vote for their candidate of choice.

“The 14th Amendment was part of the ‘Reconstruction Amendments’ that were ratified following the Civil War. It was passed to prohibit former Confederate military and political leaders from holding high federal or state office. These men had clearly taken part in a rebellion against the United States: the Civil War. That makes it all the more absurd that a left-wing group in Colorado is asking a federal court to disqualify the 45th President on the same grounds, equating his speech to rebellion against the United States.