Conservatives who are upset that the Colorado Supreme Court blocked Donald Trump from the state's GOP primary ballot have a serious hypocrisy problem, a former GOP staffer said on Saturday.
Kurt Bardella, a former staffer for Republican Senator Olympia Snowe and Republican Congressman Darrell Issa, appeared on MSNBC's Ayman, where he was asked about the Colorado case. He drew a connection between the Supreme Court's task in this case and the one that decided the 2000 election.
"Al Gore would love to hear Republicans' take, now, that justices should not be determining the outcomes of presidential elections," Bardella said.
He added that "the people" already decided that Trump lost.
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"From all this talk of Republicans about the people's vote, the people did decide. They decided that Donald Trump lost and the Republicans did not accept that, and now they fomented an insurrection attempt to overthrow the government," Bardella said. "You cannot say no the people should decide when you try to overthrow the will of the people on the floor of the United States House of Representatives the evening of January six where 150 Republicans voted to throw out the results of a free and fair election. You can't keep having it both ways. Which one is it, folks?"
He continued:
"By the, way I love how also they're saying now, well listen, we should have states' rights decide everything when it comes to things like abortion, but when a state like Colorado exercises state sovereignty, they want to overrule it."
