“This pathetic gambit to rig the Election has failed all across the Country, including in states that have historically leaned heavily toward the Democrats.”
Following the Michigan Supreme Court's rejection of an appeal to take Trump off the ballot in the state over alleged 14th Amendment violations, 2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump celebrated the victory, and criticized the Colorado Supreme Court for being "the only state to have fallen prey to the scheme."
"The Michigan Supreme Court has strongly and rightfully denied the desperate Democrat attempt to take the leading Candidate in the 2024 Presidential Election, me, off the ballot in the Great State of Michigan," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "This pathetic gambit to rig the Election has failed all across the Country, including in states that have historically leaned heavily toward the Democrats."
Trump criticized the Colorado Supreme Court ruling from earlier in December, in which the court ruled 4-3 that he violated Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which prohibits a person from taking office again if they participated in insurrection.
"Colorado is the only state to have fallen prey to the scheme. That 4-3 Colorado Supreme Court decision, which they themselves stayed, thus keeping me on the ballot as we go up to the US Supreme Court, is being ridiculed and mocked all over the World.
"We have to prevent the 2024 Election from being Rigged and Stolen like they stole 2020 - just look at the complete mess we have as a result with Crooked Joe Biden violently destroying everything in his sight, from our once-great Economy to our once-fair Justice System. We have to save our Country from decline and the Radical Left. Make America Great Again!
Comparing Michigan to Colorado, Justice Elizabeth Welch wrote in the high court's ruling that the group bringing forth the appeal in Michigan "have identified no analogous provision in the Michigan Election Law that requires someone seeking the office of President of the United States to attest to their legal qualification to hold the office."
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