Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel attacked the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 ballot
She called it “election interference” in a post to X, and said the RNC’s legal team “looks forward to helping fight for a victory.”
GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy called the court’s decision an “actual attack on democracy.”
In a post on X, Ramaswamy pledged to withdraw from the Colorado GOP primary unless Trump is allowed to be on the ballot. He called on other candidates — Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie and Nikki Haley — to do the same, arguing, “or else they are tacitly endorsing this illegal maneuver which will have disastrous consequences for our country.”
“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,” he wrote.
Christie would not comment directly on the decision since he said he had not yet read it. But he commented that, generally, he believes it would be “bad for the country” if Trump were kept off a ballot by a legal decision, adding there hasn’t yet been a criminal trial proving Trump has incited an insurrection.
“But what I will say is this, I do not believe Donald Trump should be prevented from being president of the United States by any court. I think he should be prevented from being president of the United States by the voters in this country,” he said.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said the ruling was “nothing but a thinly veiled partisan attack.” He said voters should be able to decide the nominee.
“Regardless of political affiliation, every citizen registered to vote should not be denied the right to support our former president and the individual who is the leader in every poll of the Republican primary,” Johnson said.
The post was updated with more reactions to the Colorado court ruling.
