Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who is running as an independent for president in 2024, issued a warning after Colorado\u2019s Supreme Court blocked former President Donald Trump from the ballot because of his involvement in the attack on the Capitol in January 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018If Trump is kept out of office through judicial fiat rather than being defeated in a fair election, his supporters will never accept the result. This country will become ungovernable,\u2019 Kennedy, who initially launched a Democratic primary challenge to President Biden in April before switching to an independent 2024 bid in October, wrote on X.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018It\u2019s time to trust the voters. It is up to the people to decide who the best candidate is. Not the courts. The people. That\u2019s Democracy 101,\u2019 Kennedy said. \u2018When any candidate is deprived of his right to run, the American people are deprived of their right to choose.\u2019<\/p>\n
Calling for a swift reversal, Kennedy said the 4-3 Colorado decision deeming Trump ineligible for the White House under the U.S. Constitution\u2019s insurrection clause \u2018contributes to the perception that the elites are picking the President by manipulating the legal system, and through other interventions.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018Every American should be troubled by the Colorado Supreme Court\u2019s decision to remove President Trump from the ballot,\u2019 he wrote on X. \u2018The court has deprived him of a consequential right without having been convicted of a crime. This was done without an evidentiary hearing in which he is given the basic right of confronting his accusers.\u2019<\/p>\n
In an earlier thread, Kennedy argued the U.S. would condemn foreign governments if they acted the way the Colorado Supreme Court has.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018When a court in another country disqualifies an opposition candidate from running, we say, \u2018That\u2019s not a real democracy.\u2019 Now it\u2019s happening here,\u2019 Kennedy said. \u2018I\u2019m not a Trump supporter (if I were, I wouldn\u2019t be running against him!) But I want to beat him in a fair election, not because he was kicked off the ballot. Let the voters choose, not the courts!\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
Speaking to Fox News Digital, Mark Gorton and Tony Lyons, co-founders of Americas Voice 2024, a super PAC supporting Kennedy\u2019s 2024 presidential campaign, highlighted similarities between the Colorado Trump ruling and efforts to censor Kennedy and block the longtime Democrat from the Democratic ticket.<\/p>\n
\u2018Generally, these kinds of tactics to keep somebody off the ballot are the same kinds of tactics that the DNC (Democratic National Committee) used against him when he was campaigning in New Hampshire. And they were saying that they were going to penalize him in Georgia and South Carolina,\u2019 Lyons told Fox News Digital, describing efforts he says the DNC is taking to block third-party candidates from ballots on a state-by-state basis.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018They\u2019re going to do everything in their power to keep Bobby Kennedy off the ballot because they don\u2019t want him on the stage with Joe Biden. And the RNC (Republican National Committee) doesn\u2019t want Bobby on the stage with Donald Trump because he has better ideas, better arguments and better policies,\u2019 Lyons said. \u2018They\u2019re using these tactics as a way to avoid dialogue and debate, to disenfranchise the American public, to, you know, take away voting rights that have been, you know, hard fought for 50 or 60 years. All of these tactics are anti-democratic tactics. And so I think that Bobby Kennedy is absolutely right to stand up for the right of even an opponent when he believes that what\u2019s being done is not the right thing and unconstitutional.\u2019<\/p>\n
Noting how Kennedy is not a Trump supporter, Gorton echoed those sentiments, describing Kennedy as \u2018a man of principle\u2019 working against the \u2018dirty games\u2019 of the political establishment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018The DNC is not just trying to do one thing to stop one candidate. They\u2019re throwing the kitchen sink at every, you know, every Democratic letter. And whether it\u2019s voting or rules for how you run the primary or ballot access or censoring people, it\u2019s the same, you know, large-scale organization or large-scale network of people that instead of putting forth a candidate and letting the people choose, are constantly trying to corrupt and manipulate the system,\u2019 Gorton told Fox News Digital. \u2018The DNC \u2014 it\u2019s amazing because they run around and are constantly talking about threats to democracy. Yet they\u2019re the ones who are saying the American people shouldn\u2019t get a choice, and they\u2019re manipulating the system, and they\u2019re censoring people. And that\u2019s the ethic of the people in D.C. today, where they feel like they\u2019re entitled to rule and that anything they do in the service of their own power is acceptable.\u2019<\/p>\n\n
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who is running as an independent for president in 2024, issued a warning after Colorado\u2019s Supreme Court blocked former President Donald Trump from the ballot because of his involvement in the attack on the Capitol in January 2021.\u00a0 \u2018If Trump is kept out of office through judicial fiat rather than being <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}