DeSantis floats taking Biden off the ballot using same reasoning as Colorado Supreme Court

URBANDALE, Iowa – At the Westside Conservative Club Wednesday morning, Gov. Ron DeSantis mulled the possibility of taking President Joe Biden off the ballot, should other states apply the same line of reasoning used by the Colorado Supreme Court in taking former President Donald Trump off its primary ballot.

The governor floated using the same logic as the court to take Biden off the ballot. The court said Trump violated the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution; specifically, that he engaged in rebellion or insurrection.

“There was no trial on any of this,” DeSantis said. “They basically just said, what, you can’t be on the ballot? I mean, how does that work?”

The governor said the ruling has no “limiting principle” and that by the same logic, other states could remove Biden for perceived constitutional violations.

“Could we just say that Biden can’t be on the ballot because he let in 8 million illegals into the country and violated the constitution, which he has?” DeSantis said. “Can we just say, oh, well, they have money coming to Hunter [Biden]?”

He said that the U.S. Supreme Court will reverse the Colorado court’s ruling.

“They’re doing all this stuff to basically solidify support in the primary for [Trump], get him into the general, and the whole general election is going to be all this legal stuff,” DeSantis said. “Look, it’s unfair, they’re abusing power, 100%.”

“I think they have a playbook that unfortunately will work,” he said. “It will give Biden, or the Democrat or whoever, the ability to skate through this thing. That’s their plan. That’s what they want.”