DeSantis Resists Ramaswamy’s Call To Withdraw From Colorado Primary

Although most of former President Donald Trump’s 2024 GOP primary opponents issued statements denouncing the Colorado Supreme Court decision citing the 14th Amendment as an excuse to exclude his name from the state’s ballot, some have taken a more aggressive stance than others.

Vivek Ramaswamy, for example, signaled that he would voluntarily remove his own name from the Colorado presidential primary ballot. 

“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 in a social media post on Tuesday.

Ramaswamy called on the rest of the Republican field to do the same in order to prevent the state from interfering in the 2024 election. 

For his part, however, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said that he has no plans to abandon his campaign in the Centennial State.

“No, I think that’s just playing into the left,” he said during a Newsmax interview whether he would withdraw from the Colorado primary race. “I think the case will get overturned by the Supreme Court, but 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, but I do anticipate that decision was political and will get reversed.”

DeSantis also took to social media to express his thoughts about the Colorado decision, sharing a post from U.S. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) that called it “lawless thuggery” and issuing his own reaction.

“The Left invokes ‘democracy’ to justify its use of power, even if it means abusing judicial power to remove a candidate from the ballot based on spurious legal grounds,” the governor argued.

Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley similarly opposed the judicial interference in a statement at a campaign event in Iowa.

Although she reiterated her belief that she, not Trump, should be the next president, she concluded: “I will beat him fair and square. We don’t need to have judges making these decisions; we need voters to make these decisions.”