Ramaswamy pledges to withdraw from Colorado GOP presidential primary if Trump isn't allowed on the ballot

Republican presidential primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy announced that he plans to withdraw from the Colorado GOP primary unless former President Donald Trump is permitted to be included on the primary ballot.

"This is what an *actual* attack on democracy looks like: in an un-American, unconstitutional, and *unprecedented* decision, a cabal of Democrat judges are barring Trump from the ballot in Colorado. Having tried every trick in the book to eliminate President Trump from running in this election, the bipartisan Establishment is now deploying a new tactic to bar him from ever holding office again: the 14th Amendment," Ramaswamy tweeted.

"I pledge to *withdraw* from the Colorado GOP primary unless Trump is also allowed to be on the state’s ballot, and I demand that Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, and Nikki Haley to do the same immediately - or else they are tacitly endorsing this illegal maneuver which will have disastrous consequences for our country," he wrote.

Ramaswamy made the announcement in response to the news that the Colorado Supreme Court had declared that Trump's name should not be included on 2024 presidential primary ballots.

"Accordingly, we conclude that because President Trump is disqualified from holding the office of President under Section Three, it would be a wrongful act under the Election Code for the Secretary to list President Trump as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot. Therefore, the Secretary may not list President Trump's name on the 2024 presidential primary ballot, nor may she count any write-in votes cast for him," the court wrote.

"But we stay our ruling until January 4, 2024 (the day before the Secretary's deadline to certify the content of the presidential primary ballot)," the court noted. "If review is sought in the Supreme Court before the stay expires, it shall remain in place, and the Secretary will continue to be required to include President Trump’s name on the 2024 presidential primary ballot until the receipt of any order or mandate from the Supreme Court."

Several justices dissented.

Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement that the decision would be challenged.

"The Colorado Supreme Court issued a completely flawed decision tonight and we will swiftly file an appeal to the United States Supreme Court and a concurrent request for a stay of this deeply undemocratic decision," Cheung said in the statement.

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