It took four far-left Colorado Democrat Supreme Court judges to unify former President Donald Trump’s GOP rivals behind him. But they did it.
Here’s a headline from Newsmax:
Even Trump’s GOP Rivals Rally to His Defense After ‘Unfair’ Colo. Ballot Ruling
Newsmax (where, full disclosure, I am a TV contributor) reports:
With less than a month to go before voting begins, Donald Trump’s Republican rivals are rallying to his defense 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, the GOP front-runner’s opponents cast the landmark court decision — the first time in history the 14th Amendment has been used to disqualify a presidential candidate — 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.
“Look, it’s unfair. They’re abusing power, 100%,” he told an audience in Urbandale, Iowa, on Wednesday morning. “But the question is: Is that going to work? And I think they have a playbook that unfortunately will work and it’ll give Biden or the Democrat or whoever, the ability to skate through this thing. That’s their plan.”
The court’s ruling — Trump has vowed a speedy appeal to the Supreme Court — once again highlighted a defining dynamic of the GOP primary: While the trail of lawsuits and criminal charges following Trump had been expected by many critics to seriously damage his candidacy, they have instead had the opposite effect, particularly among Republicans. Primary voters — including many who had been open to backing rival candidates — have rallied around the former president, who has cast himself as the victim of a politically motivated effort by Democrat President Joe Biden and his administration to damage his chief political rival.
“I think that it confirms Americans’ deepest suspicions that many of our institutions can be weaponized against them. So it serves as a proof point for the former president,” said Republican strategist Devin O’Malley, who served as communications chief to former Vice President Mike Pence’s campaign.
Over there at Fox was this focus on longtime Trump GOP opponent and former Ohio Gov. John Kasich:
Kasich slammed the effort to bar Trump from the 2024 ballot in Colorado as ‘going nowhere,’ deriding it as ‘pure partisan ridiculous stuff’
At NBC, the headline was this:
Trump’s rivals defend him, demonstrating his grip on the GOP
At Politico, this was the headline:
GOP rallies around Trump after Colorado ballot ruling
His Republican primary rivals said they want to beat him, but not this way.
And on and on — and on and on — went similar headlines.
It is an amazing moment to watch Trump opponents, whether on the Colorado Supreme Court or in those various legal entities from the U.S. Justice Department to Georgia or New York, stumble around trying to “Get Trump” — and, in doing so, cause his poll numbers to soar.
The pollsters at InsiderAdvantage headline this:
And that was just before the Colorado Supremes stepped in it.
As the Christmas holiday finally arrives, with the opening of the 2024 election season now just over a week away, it is very safe to say that the Colorado Supreme Court has managed something that was once seen as impossible: to unify Trump’s rivals in defending him.
Amazing.
Merry Christmas.
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