According to Mediaite, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) responded to the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to bar Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot due to his alleged role in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. DeSantis criticized the ruling, characterizing it as a left-wing tactic to use the power of the state to advance their agenda.
DeSantis questioned the absence of a trial and the limiting principles behind the decision, suggesting that the U.S. Supreme Court would likely reverse it. He raised the hypothetical scenario of preventing President Biden from the ballot based on his policies, such as letting in millions of undocumented immigrants. DeSantis argued against the abuse of power by the left, emphasizing that the U.S. Supreme Court would likely overturn such rulings.
He further analyzed the left’s strategy, asserting that they aim to solidify support for Trump in the primary and then use legal challenges to dominate the general election. DeSantis expressed concern that the left’s playbook might work, creating a scenario where the general election revolves around legal issues, distracting from the failures of the Biden administration.
DeSantis positioned himself as an alternative, suggesting that the left’s strategy would be less effective if the election focused on the failures of the left and the nominee’s ability to address those issues. He highlighted the need to frame the election around the country’s future and emphasized that the left’s maneuvers, including the Colorado Supreme Court decision, were part of a plan to set the stage for 2024.
In conclusion, DeSantis criticized the media and the left for employing what he termed as stunts to distract from substantive issues. He urged a shift in focus towards the issues facing the country, positioning himself as a candidate who could effectively prosecute the case against the left, akin to his track record in Florida.
And you see that with the Colorado Supreme Court. I mean, look, if somebody is convicted or something of some of these things, there was no trial on any of this. They basically just said, what, you can’t be on the ballot. I mean, how does that work? What’s the limiting principle for that? Why could we just say that Biden can’t be on the ballot because he let in 8 million illegals into the country and violated the Constitution, which he has? Can we just say, oh, well, they have money coming to Hunter or whatever.
So I think the U.S. Supreme Court is going to reverse that. But here’s the larger thing. What the left in the media and the Democrats are doing, they’re doing all this stuff to basically solidify support in the primary for him, get him into the general, and the whole general election is going to be all this legal stuff. And look, it’s unfair. They’re abusing power 100%.
“But the question is, is that going to work?” DeSantis continued, making the case that Trump is a liability for the GOP if he becomes the nominee.
“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,” he argued, adding:
That’s what they want. What they don’t want is to have somebody like me who will make the election, not about all those other issues, but it’ll make the election about the failures of Biden, the failures of the left, and how we’re going to be able to turn the country around. If that’s how the election’s framed, we will win. But they are setting this stuff up.
I mean, how do you how do you have the timing, the way they’ve done it with all these things? They’re doing this for a reason. They have a plan in terms of what they’re trying to accomplish. And do we want to have 2024 to be about this trial, that case, this case having to put hundreds of millions of dollars into legal stuff? Or do we want 2024 to be about your issues about the country’s future with the nominee that’s going to be able to prosecute that case against the left, just like I’ve been able to do in Florida? That is a path to winning.
And I think they’re putting us, what the media and the left are doing with all these little these stunts, whether it’s the Colorado Supreme Court, whether it’s others, and there’s going to be other Supreme Courts that are going to probably try to do this, too. Maybe they’ll wait for the end of these trials when there’s when there’s if there’s conviction. But they’re going to the liberal courts are gonna try to do this. So that’s what we be walking into and it’s not fair. But that doesn’t give us our best chance to be able to win and to be able to do this. In a way. It’s a hard enough job as it is.
