Colorado GOP to have CAUCUS instead of primary if Trump ballot decision stands

justthenews.com ^ | 20 DEC 2023 | Madeleine Hubbard

[Chad C. Mulligan]

The Colorado Republican Party said it would start using a caucus system rather than participating in a primary election if the state supreme court's decision banning former President Donald Trump from the primary ballot remains in place.

After GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said Tuesday evening on X, formerly Twitter, that he would withdraw from Colorado's primary ballot if Trump is not allowed on, the state Republican Party responded: "You won't have to because we will withdraw from the Primary as a Party and convert to a pure caucus system if this is allowed to stand."

Trump vowed to appeal the Colorado Supreme Court's decision to the U.S. Supreme Court after the state judges ruled that Trump is ineligible to run for the White House for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Riot under the 14th Amendment's insurrection clause.

"We think this is an absurd ruling and we're going to do whatever we can to protect the rights of voters in Colorado and frankly across the nation and choose Donald Trump, if they so choose," Colorado Republican Party Chair Dave Williams told CNN after the court's decision.

"We're going to appeal this to the United States Supreme Court. We're a party to the case and we're not going to take this lying down. And if need be, we're going to withdraw from the primary and go to a strict caucus process that would allow our voters to choose Donald Trump if they want," he also said.

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[AnthonySoprano]

I think everyone is taking the Bait. They know the SCOTUS overturns this quickly.

The SCOTUS is poised to work with Jack Smith and see Trump is convicted BEFORE the Election. I listened to 30 mins of two Legal Scholars who don’t see why SCOTUS would expedite the case for Jack Smith unless they were sympathetic to Smith’s arguments - which add up to a need to Convict Trump before the Election, which is counter to how they handled Hunter and Joe.

[TomGuy]

Now some CO state official is saying the Republican party cannot change to a caucus format.

The ‘high’ courts need to intervene in all of this, make some decisions and clean up the mess they have allows lower courts to create.

[nonliberal]

Or they could ignore the ruling and put him on the ballot anyway.

[cableguymn]

They can always cross over to the Republican caucus. But Dems are lazy and most won’t show up.

[DoughtyOne]

And we know how the caucus process is gamed.

Let the SCOTUS smash this nonsense.

[justme4now]

Democrats did it in Florida.

[thinden]

What is ronna mcdaniel’s position on this ruling?

[Samurai_Jack]

Well, the democrats said that trump would be the end of democracy. What they did not tell you is that they were the ones that would end it with the symptoms of their trump derangement syndrome.