Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy was disappointed when other Republican candidates chose not to follow his decision to remove their names from the Colorado primary ballot in solidarity with former President Trump, but said the gesture is his way of “leading[ing] For example.”
“It is an unconstitutional and flagrant violation of the way we conduct elections in this country. This is not the way we do things in the United States of America. “We the people are the ones who select our leaders, not unelected cliques of Democratic judges and clerks,” Ramaswamy told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo about the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove Trump from the ballot of the state.
The esteemed businessman and Republican firebrand joined the show, along with his wife, Dr. Apoorva Ramaswamy, to explain his decision to remove his own name from the ballot and discuss the youth vote.
“The reason I made this statement is very practical,” he continued, reflecting on the Colorado vote.
“If every Republican in the Colorado GOP primary also says, ‘We’re not participating,’ then this blatant act of election interference has no impact, so I wanted to lead by example and say that if you’re going to eliminate by force Trump, name of that ballot, then I would also voluntarily withdraw and asked Chris Christie, Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis to do the same. “I must say I was disappointed to hear radio silence or worse from those other candidates who said they still wanted to pick up their delegates.”
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy was disappointed when other Republican candidates decided not to follow his decision to remove their names from the Colorado primary ballot. Fox News
Ramaswamy said he didn’t see much value in gathering a “small” number of delegates while tolerating “blatant election interference,” but said candidates promising to remove their names from the ballot would help the Republican Party “solve this problem.”
“I am running to win these elections. It would be a lot easier for me, for us, if Donald Trump wasn’t in the race to win, but why are we winning? It is to protect a constitutional republic. And that is the first principle that we must defend above all else, that is why I made the decision I made,” he said.
The court’s 4-3 ruling last Tuesday disqualified the former president on the grounds of the 14th amendment of the US Constitution, citing his conduct during the Capitol riots on January 6, 2021.
However, the ruling is suspended until January 4 due to probable appeals.
Ramaswamy, after the news about the decision broke, emerged victorious.
The Colorado court’s 4-3 ruling last Tuesday disqualified former President Trump from appearing on the ballot based on the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution, citing his conduct during the Capitol riots on January 6, 2021. REUTERS
He published in Xcriticizing the measure with language similar to Sunday’s segment, writing in part: “This is what a *real* attack on democracy looks like: In an un-American, unconstitutional and *unprecedented* decision, a cabal of Democratic judges are excluding Trump from the elections in Colorado.”
He went on to lay out his promise to remove his own name from the state ballot unless Trump’s is restored.
He also made a “demand” that other candidates do the same.
Although none have similarly committed to removing their names, Trump’s rivals in the White House showed solidarity with him in their own way.
“The left invokes ‘democracy’ to justify its use of power, even if that means abusing the judiciary to remove a candidate from the polls based on spurious legal grounds. SCOTUS should back down,” DeSantis wrote in a social media post, criticizing what he considered judicial overreach.
Former UN ambassador Nikki Haley told reporters: “We don’t need judges making these decisions. We need voters to make these decisions. That’s why I want to see this in the hands of the voters. “We’re going to win this the right way.” CRISTÓBAL HERRERA-ULASHKEVICH/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Former UN ambassador Nikki Haley told reporters: “We don’t need judges to make these decisions. We need voters to make these decisions. That’s why I want to see this in the hands of the voters. “We’re going to win this the right way.”
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, perhaps one of Trump’s most outspoken opponents on his own side of the aisle, said: “I don’t think any court should stop Donald Trump from being president of the United States. “I think the voters of this country should stop him from being president of the United States.”
Fox News’ Paul Steinhauser and Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report.
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