By this time, most Americans are aware of the unprecedented move by Colorado to block former president and current GOP frontrunner Donald Trump from the state’s presidential ballot. Since the leftist state’s ruling, many other blue states have all but sprinted in their attempt to follow Colorado’s lead. Of course, the ruling is all but guaranteed to be struck down by the Supreme Court with Trump being restored to the ballot, but that hasn’t stopped liberal bastions like Michigan, Maine, Vermont, and Massachusetts from furthering their efforts to take voting choices away from actual voters.
California, perhaps the most liberal of blue state strongholds, has also been giddy with excitement at the prospect of blocking President Trump from what looks, at least in early polling, to be a decisive victory over Joe Biden. Elected officials in the Golden State have already begun rattling sabers and plotting ways to follow the soon-to-be-reversed Colorado ruling before the March 5th presidential primary.
However, the most powerful Democrat in the state has a message for excited liberals hoping to bounce Trump off the ballot: Chill out. Perhaps recognizing that the Colorado Supreme Court had no legal right to kick Trump from the ballot, California Governor Gavin Newsom has encouraged state Democrats to slow their roll when it comes to the former president.
Colorado removed President Trump on the false premise that he fomented what the left calls an insurrection on January 6th, despite the fact the term has never been used in any legal proceedings against any of the J6 political prisoners. Further, Trump has never been charged with inciting an insurrection, as the left refuses to accept that the protests of that day didn’t come close to meeting the threshold of an actual insurrection. Perhaps saving face from the inevitable SCOTUS ruling is Newsom’s motivation, but whatever the case, he is not keen on blocking Trump from the state ballot.
In a Friday statement before Christmas, Newsom said: “There is no doubt that Donald Trump is a threat to our liberties and even to our democracy. But in California, we defeat candidates at the polls. Everything else is a political distraction.” Newsom may have been using political rhetoric to hide his real intentions. He knows that California, particularly the major cities, is deep blue and will carry the state despite most of California being red. Therefore, he is safe in appearing unbiased politically because he knows Trump likely has no path to victory in California.
It could be Newsom is promoting himself as fair politically as he plans for a 2024 run should Biden step down. It is highly doubtful that the California Governor is being honest with his intentions. However, if he joined the fray in an attempt to keep a rightful GOP candidate off of the ballot, it could be used against him after SCOTUS strikes down Colorado’s absurdly biased ruling.
Whatever the motivation for Gavin Newsom, at least he recognizes that President Trump should be on the ballot and that Colorado’s ruling was politically motivated. The California governor’s intentions are almost assuredly not pure, but the battle for the White House should be fair and not usurped by leftist states and their liberal Supreme Courts.
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