Former President Donald Trump's team is already trying to come up with a way to use his disqualification from the ballot in Colorado in campaign attacks against President Joe Biden, reported Politico on Thursday.
"During an appearance in Iowa early this month, Trump called Biden a 'destroyer of American democracy.' Trump argued that Biden was using the justice system against him, despite there being no evidence that the president has had any connection to the four indictments Trump is facing," the outlet reported. "The Trump campaign has distributed black and white signs to supporters that read 'Biden Attacks Democracy,' and at a recent event Trump stood underneath a large banner emblazoned with the same phrase."
According to Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung, this messaging will be a "big part" of the Trump campaign following the Colorado ruling, even though Biden didn't have any meaningful connection to that ruling. “We need to be able to highlight what Biden and his team are doing, disenfranchising voters on a wide scale, not just on a national scale, but in these states and what they’re doing is taking democracy out of the hands of the public, out of the voters.”
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Meanwhile, the Colorado Republican Party, which has suffered a long string of losses amid the state's leftward trend and is reportedly in a state of financial collapse, has been trying to get Trump to do a campaign stop in the state to energize the base there and draw attention to their own plight.
The Colorado Supreme Court's decision voiding Trump from the ballot is based on the Insurrection Clause of the 14th Amendment, declaring Trump ineligible due to a preponderance of the evidence, the standard required by state law, that he helped further the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The ruling is expected to be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
