Trump ruled ineligible to run for President

Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret said:
It feels most of the time that people are trying to convince themselves that trump can't or won't win.
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Well, I thought he would in his first run and was undecided last time but I don't think so this time. I think there are enough people who would normally vote REP who actively dislike him who will stop him in the main vote.

The other candidates in his own party have time on their side. Someone like DeSantis is only relatively young and can wait. I think if he's allowed to stand he will win the nomination but as a party they must worry about events between that date and the election.

I think the main danger comes from the other side. Biden is already the oldest President and should be passing the torch.
 
Unravel_Morrison said:
Well, I thought he would in his first run and was undecided last time but I don't think so this time. I think there are enough people who would normally vote REP who actively dislike him who will stop him in the main vote.

The other candidates in his own party have time on their side. Someone like DeSantis is only relatively young and can wait. I think if he's allowed to stand he will win the nomination but as a party they must worry about events between that date and the election.

I think the main danger comes from the other side. Biden is already the oldest President and should be passing the torch.
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From the very first time he announced his intent to become president to the moment he stepped into the white house, everyone treated his candidacy as a joke akin to a Kanye west or Kermit the frog attempt at the presidency. Seems similar this time.

The bloke attempted to overturn democracy. There's absolutely no way he should not be in jail. The fact he isn't speaks to me of the US inability to deal with him. This is a country which jail's people for offences deemed minor in the UK. they are scared to do anything to him because of the support he still has and the risk of public unrest.
 
There's a lot of Trump dominos teetering right now and it won't take much to send them all crashing.
He stands to lose a huge amount of his wealth (possibly all of his liquidity) for starters. That'll affect him mentally and financially.
If Colorado can take him off the ballot legally then a lot of other states will do so too and at that point his lead of Haley won't matter as she'll potentially win more primaries due to his absence on so many ballots.
Even before you get to the existing court cases you now have new evidence that he and Rona Romney 😉 engaged in election interference in Michigan so that could further add to his legal woes.
A lot of the GOP and their backers have realised that he and his Maga crowd are election losers outside of the base and having him lose to Haley via the nomination process is the easiest way for them to get rid of him without getting blood on their hands. That's why it was the GOP who brought the Colorado case and why it's GOP witnesses who are going to testify against him in court. This idea that it is a political witch-hunt by the Democratic Party is a fallacy as the ones who will convict him with their evidence were all part of the Trump team.
 
Mendieta14 said:
these type of judgments only gain him more fans and followers
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I don't know if they do.

They might, but feels more likely it just further entrenches the views of those idiots who were always going to vote for him anyway.

Not sure it's likely to win him many more new followers/voters, but I'm far from an expert on American politics.
 
Ziggy said:
Virginia have voted to bin now as well✊️
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Eh? No they haven't.

A supposedly rival Republican candidate had filed a lawsuit to remove Trump from the ballot, but the judge dismissed it because said Republican doesn't even have any offices in Virginia, nor has he done any advertising there.

Other states are going to follow Colorado's lead though, and it will be Republicans doing the filing.

For the GOP to stand any chance of keeping their party together, they need to somehow prevent Trump from winning the primary.
 
Juninhoburger said:
Was always going to be a long shot, to be fair.
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You're making it sound like Michigan allowing him to be on the ballot means this whole issue is now decided. It isn't.

More states will probably remove him from the ballot (as mentioned, Maine has already done so) and others will not.

This will eventually end up with the SCOTUS. Only after they've ruled, will this reach a conclusion.
 
Liamo said:
You're making it sound like Michigan allowing him to be on the ballot means this whole issue is now decided. It isn't.

More states will probably remove him from the ballot (as mentioned, Maine has already done so) and others will not.

This will eventually end up with the SCOTUS. Only after they've ruled, will this reach a conclusion.
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Where did I ever say that? I said trying to remove him from Michigan, a key battleground state, would always be a long shot.

I've always said that other states will (and definitely should) follow. Colorado has already ruled he took part in an insurrection, under the fourteenth amendment he literally cannot run for office as a result.
 
SCOTUS will be desperately trying not to rule on this, but they're going to have to at some point. Either way, it's bad for Trump.
 
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