Colorado supreme court ruled that they can take Trump off the ballot, now it looks like California is trying to do that as well. Meanwhile, republican states are threatening to retaliate in kind.
This seems unprecedented for US, does anybody know what happens in this scenario?
If the Republican party establishment wants, they can use this to nullify Trump, get a massive fundraising boost, and a huge boost to whomever their candidate happens to be. 1) It gets Trump out of the way. 2)The Repubs can scream about how its the deep state/Demmacommie Plot/Judicial overreach. 3) The Repub candidate can spend the entire election cycle talking about nothing else besides who a small group of unelected individuals stepped all over democracy and if YOU ONLY ELECT, RON DESANTIS, HE PROMISES YOU THAT HE WILL DRAIN THE SWAMP!!
Who do they have?
DeSantis? He is the most uncharismatic fascistic cretin that legitimately gives people the creeps. He is deeply unpopular, his ideas are insane and have no support, and he’s most likely a psychopath and deeply mentally unwell.
Ramaswamy? There is a 0% chance that republicans willingly elect a brown person. Let alone an immigrant brown person. He is also deeply uncharismatic and unpopular.
Who else do they have? Nikky Haley? The runner polling at single digits?
They'll vote for whoever has an R by their name. It doesn't matter who it is.
Only if they’re charismatic and roughly aligned with their ideals. The charisma why Trump blew it out of the water but McCain floundered. Someone like DeSantis looks and sounds like an actual demon, and the only supporters of his I’ve seen have been actual deranged Nazis.
I also stand by it that a large number of republicans would never vote for a black, brown, POC, indigenous, LGBT, or Asian candidate. Their campaign would be dead in the water.
I mean, Trump has some pretty queeny vibes and it didn't scare off the republican man'o'sphere types.
I think if Trump isn't interested in getting out of their way then the Republicans can't get past him this easily. They would need him to either actually get behind whoever they put forward (unlikely) or be completely silenced in a way that they can pull off pretending that he would be behind their guy.
But it does give them a "law and order" excuse for why their hands are tied and its in the Republican party voter's duty to vote for whoever IS actually on the ballot with an R by their name.