Colorado judge did Democrats a favor by ruling for Trump in insurrection case: ex-adviser

Friday's loss handed down by a Colorado judge denying a try by voters to scratch Trump from the ballot is a "boon" for the Dems.

"By failing here, I think that Democrats did themselves a favor by not playing right into the president's hands," former Trump campaign senior adviser David Urban said during an appearance on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360". "[Trump's supporters] would have been shouting from the rooftops."

"This now, kind of, goes quietly into the night."

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Judge Sarah B. Wallace in Colorado formally rejected a lawsuit that was aiming to disqualify the 45th president from the 2024 presidential election ballot under the 14th Amendment.

In dismissing the case, the judge ordered "the Secretary of State to place Donald J. Trump on the presidential primary ballot when it certifies the ballot on January 5, 2024.”

Secretary of State Jena Griswold was also a defendant in the case.

The suit was brought in September by six Colorado voters arguing that Trump should be disqualified from holding office claiming he engaged in “summoning” and “inciting” a mob to halt the certification of the election on Jan. 6, 2021, that favored then President Elect Joe Biden, and therefore exposed himself to the 14th amendment.

The Civil War-era amendment states that anybody who "engaged in insurrection or rebellion" when sworn to protect the Constitution is ineligible from holding office.

Urban maintains that the former president would have been armed to the hilt with material to inspire his base to contest it as proof to say that nobody can beat me but the rigged witch-hunting courts.

"I think that if the judge were to have found that this was violative of the 14th amendment and took Donald Trump off the ballot in Colorado, it would have been a boon politically for the president because he would have pointed... that 'Here we are again!' 'Look what they're doing!' 'They're trying... an elected judge in the state of Colorado, partisan, is trying to do what Joe Biden can't, beat me.'"

Among similar lawsuits trying to nix Trump as a candidate that citizens could vote for, the Colorado case was considered by legal experts to be the most credible.

Similar suits were rejected in Minnesota and Michigan this month, although both cases could be refiled or appealed in some capacity.

Urban warns, "The Democrats would be wise to move on," he said. "I would think if the Democrats want to win — go to the ballot box, beat the guy fair and square in November."

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