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Republican lawmakers in at least three states are already working on legislation to remove President Joe Biden from the 2024 ballot after the Colorado Supreme Court removed former President Donald Trump from that state’s ballot earlier this week, claiming he incited an “insurrection” on Jan. 6, 2021.
Breitbart News reported that there are efforts underway in Georgia, Arizona, and Pennsylvania to take Biden’s name off the ballot. All three are critical swing states.
The state representatives are pushing back against what they perceive as Democrats’ “lawfare” tactics aimed at attacking former President Donald Trump. In response to the Colorado high court’s 4-3 ruling, which held that the United States Constitution’s “Insurrection Clause” prevents Trump from being featured on the state’s presidential ballot, the state lawmakers are taking action.
“We are joining forces to introduce legislation to REMOVE Joe Biden from the ballot in Georgia, Arizona, and Pennsylvania,” the lawmakers told Breitbart News. “The absurdity of radical Democrat judges removing Donald Trump from the ballot in Colorado will be a stain on the American political system for decades. By their very own interpretation of the law, Joe Biden is 100% not eligible to run for political office.”
“Democrats’ insane justification to remove Trump can just as easily be applied to Joe Biden for his ‘insurrection’ at the southern border and his alleged corrupt family business dealings with China,” they continued.
“Colorado radicals just changed the game, and we are not going to sit quietly while they destroy our Republic. To be clear, our objective is to showcase the absurdity of Colorado’s decision and allow ALL candidates to be on the ballot in all states,” they wrote. “To do that, we must fight back as Republicans against the communists currently running our great country.”
“While GOP elites are asleep at the wheel, the Democrats are very serious about destroying the American Republic,” political strategist Cliff Maloney told Breitbart News. “Thank God for patriots like Aaron Bernstine, Charlice Byrd, and Cory McGarr for stepping up to FIGHT back.”
Two of the states — Arizona and Pennsylvania — have Democratic governors, so any attempt to remove Biden via legislation will be difficult. But former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Thursday there are more than a dozen states where Republicans control the legislature and the governorship and could easily boot Biden off their ballots if push comes to shove.
“I think this is potentially catastrophic. 1,360,000 Coloradans voted for Donald Trump in the last election. Four lawyers want to block him from being on the ballot. That means, basically, for every 340,000 Coloradans who voted for Trump, one lawyer is stopping them. That’s a level of establishment arrogance that is not sustainable,” he said.
The last great effort like this was the 10 states that refused to put Abraham Lincoln on the ballot in 1860. The American people are not going to tolerate it, and I hope the Supreme Court fully understands,” Gingrich continued. “The American people are not going to tolerate being told that they are not allowed to have a choice for who they want to have as president.
Newt believes Democrats' moves to take down Trump are aimed at stoking civil unrest so Biden's handlers can crack down ahead of an election they know they are likely to lose. Scary stuff. pic.twitter.com/LrPSggZZMv
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“This is not Venezuela. It’s not Nicaragua. It’s not Cuba. I think the Democrats are dangerously close to causing the kind of confrontation that would be truly disastrous for the country,” he added.
“And if we are going to get into a real knockdown, drag-out fight, which would be crazy, let me emphasize. Where we are right now with what the Democrats are doing right now is insane and is in danger of tearing apart the whole society,” the former Speaker and Georgia Republican said.
“But you could imagine a circumstance in hard-line Republican states where they have absolute control of the legislature and governorship. There are probably 15, 20 states that could strip the Democrats off the ballot. That would be nuts. That would be totally wrong, but that’s what they are setting up,” said Gingrich.
