Vivek Ramaswamy has the perfect solution to Trump's exclusion from the Colorado ballot. He thinks all the Republican candidates should remove themselves in solidarity, a la McCain calling for suspended campaigns after Bush and the banks tanked the economy in 2008.
In a video posted on Xitter, Vivek xitted his brilliant idea: "I pledge to withdraw from the Colorado GOP primary ballot until Trump is also allowed to be on the ballot, and I demand that Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, and Nikki Haley do the same immediately - or else they are tacitly endorsing this illegal maneuver which will have disastrous consequences for our country."
Don't you just love the way they paint themselves all as victims who will also conquer the evil judges? The Colorado court found as a question of FACT that Trump hatched an insurrection on January 6th and is therefore ineligible to hold public office again. This isn't about keeping him off the ballot; this is about giving insurrectionists their due.
But Vivek, attention whore that he is, had to make the Grand Gesture for everyone to see and ooooh/ahhhh over. What a sacrifice! How great of him!
Well, the reactions have been a bit of a mixed bag. The Colorado Republican Party did him one better:
Yeah, that's the ticket. Trump still has the problem of being ineligible for any federal office, having violated his oath of office, but sure, GOP. You do you.
Others were celebratory:
And others just pointed out the cold truth. Love the "Andrew Yang of Jill Steins" comment.
And this really is at the heart of the issue:
I'm going to repeat myself for the people in the back. The Colorado district judge found as a matter of FACT that Trump engaged in an insurrection. The 14th amendment bars any candidate from holding federal office who did such a thing. The Colorado Supreme Court found as a matter of FACT that he is disqualified under the 14th amendment. We either believe in the rule of law or we don't.
As for Vivek, who made all his money bilking people with his pharmaceutical company, I will just leave Dan Crenshaw's comment as the final word.
Yes, he should. But he wants that VP slot desperately, and needs attention even more. So he won't.
