Businessman and surging Republican presidential contender Vivek Ramaswamy has vowed to boycott Colorado’s Republican primary in protest of the shocking state supreme court decision to disqualify the former president from the 2024 general election ballot.
In an unprecedented 4-3 ruling, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump is ineligible under the 14th Amendment, a Civil War era statute that bars “former officers” of the United States who have engaged in “rebellion” or “insurrection” from running for office. Far-left legal groups have sought to disqualify Trump from the ballot in a number of states, including Colorado, but to no avail.
The former president is also not being charged with carrying out an insurrection in his January 6 indictment, nor has he ever been convicted of anything, though this did not stop the court from issuing the ruling. Trump has vowed to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, which is already reviewing a key facet of Smith’s indictment.
In a lengthy X post, Vivek Ramaswamy slammed the decision as an attack on American democracy and vowed to boycott Colorado’s Republican primary in protest of the ruling. “This is what an *actual* attack on democracy looks like: in an un-American, unconstitutional, and *unprecedented*