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Trump’s inelgibility for the state’s 2024 presidential ballot is nothing less than historic.
The Supreme Court declared him ineligible for the US White House under the Constitution's insurrection clause.
Although Trump can appeal to the US Supreme Court, and which his campaign said he plans to do. He has until January 4, under the state court’s ruling.
However in 2020, Trump lost Colorado by 13 percentage points and doesn’t need the state to win next year’s presidential election. But the danger for Trump is that more courts and election officials will follow Colorado’s lead and exclude Trump from must-win states, according to Associated Press.
Notably, Colorado's governors and both US senators are Democrats. Biden won the state and its nine electoral votes in 2020, and Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee in 2016, was victorious in 2016.
Former US President Donald Trump has faced dozens of lawsuits across the country this year claiming he’s ineligible for another term in the White House under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. The provision states that a person who took an oath to support the Constitution and then “engaged in insurrection" is ineligible to hold office again. Other cases were brought in Michigan, Minnesota, and Oregon among other states.
Trump has used legal actions against him to rally political support, framing the charges as a plot by the political establishment to keep him out of power. The Colorado ruling, coming just one month before the Iowa caucuses, could further galvanize Republicans around him.