Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft said that while he didn’t want to do it, he had to remind people of how “severe” the situation is.
A top Republican official in Missouri is threatening to remove President Joe Biden from appearing on the ballot as retaliation for the determination in two other states that Donald Trump doesn’t qualify because he “engaged in insurrection.”
“What has happened in Colorado & Maine is disgraceful & undermines our republic,” Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft wrote on the social media site X on Friday. “While I expect the Supreme Court to overturn this, if not, Secretaries of State will step in & ensure the new legal standard for @realDonaldTrump applies equally to @JoeBiden!”
Ashcroft’s post came shortly after the Supreme Court agreed to review a decision by Colorado’s high court that found Trump could be barred from the state’s primary ballot because of his actions leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
- Trump: Does insurrection, disqualified from running
- Biden: Doesn’t commit insurrection or any other crimes that might disqualify him from running.
- GOP: We’ll step in & ensure the new legal standard for Trump applies equally to Biden
Whataboutism politics in action. They’re not even defending him, it’s just, “Well if you’re going to do that we’ll just do it back to you!”–
GOP: We’ll step in & ensure the new legal standard for Trump applies equally to Biden
Well jokes on them because Biden couldnt get trump back on the ballot in any of the states hes kicked off in even if he wanted to, cuz it really has nothing to do with Biden and he has no control over whats states decide to do or how they interpret the constitution.
And I think if anyone of them do take Biden off the ballot it’ll trigger some kind of law suit because they currently cannot show any cause for taking him off.
They really think it was done for political reasons and is just a team sport
Agreed. We need to stop pretending GOP leadership are idiots and treat them like the organized threat they are.
I think that they are both idiots, and an organized threat to democracy. Like the CIA during the Project Condor years. Those guys were mostly morons, but they had a firehose of money, and tons of manpower. Very similar to the GOP at this point.
Don’t you just love it how they all completely ignore and fly over the actual reason why trump is being dumped? They just claim it’s a disgrace that trump is dropped, as if random people decided to do this on a whim, but will NEVER mention why they made that decision. Never mention that trump instigated an insurrection, we wouldn’t want people to get the wrong idea now, would we?
“What has happened in Colorado & Maine is disgraceful & undermines our republic,”
What happened in the national capitol on Jan6 is disgraceful and undermines the republic.
The people trying to clean up after that mess are not the problem, you pandering old windbag.
Ashcroft is a real piece of shit garbage. Even shittier than his father, which is saying something. The embodiment of the Mitchell and Webb “Are we the baddies?” Nazi bit.
