Vivek Ramaswamy says he will BOYCOTT Colorado vote and his Republican rivals should do the same after 'cabal of Democratic judges' bans Trump

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy threatened to boycott Colorado's GOP primary in March over the state Supreme Court's decision to bar former President Donald Trump from the ballot.

The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday removed Trump from the 2024 Republican primary, ruling that he violated the 14th Amendment's insurrection clause for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

In a 4-3 decision by Democratic-appointed judges, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that the ex-president and 2024 hopeful are ineligible to run for president, angering the Trump campaign and Republicans, who said the decision was politically motivated.

Ramaswamy called the group a “clique of democratic judges” when he made his boycott threat.

“I pledge to *withdraw* from Colorado's GOP primary unless Trump is also allowed to appear on the state's ballot, and I demand that Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, and Nikki Haley immediately do the same—or they will endorse this tacitly illegal maneuver that will have disastrous consequences for our country,” Ramaswamy said posted on X on Tuesday evening.

In a long-winded post on Tuesday night

The Republican primaries in Colorado will take place on March 5, or “Super Tuesday” as it is called, when a large number of states hold their primaries.

“This is what a *real* attack on democracy looks like: In an un-American, unconstitutional and *unprecedented* decision, a cabal of Democratic judges excludes Trump from the ballot in Colorado,” Ramaswamy also said.

“Today's decision is the latest election interference tactic to silence political opponents and swing the election on the puppet Democrats have set up this time by depriving Americans of the right to vote for the candidate of their choice the 38-year-old entrepreneur added.

Ramaswamy, who has a law degree from Yale, said he did not accept the court's decision because Section 3 of the 14th Amendment does not apply to the presidency he argued.

He said Trump was not a former “officer of the United States” because that language was intended to designate an individual appointed by the president.

“The Framers of the 14th Amendment would be shocked to see this narrow provision—designed to prevent former American officials who defected to the Confederacy from holding public office—being weaponized by a sitting president and his political allies to to prevent a former president from seeking re-election. Ramaswamy said.

The Trump campaign said Tuesday evening that it planned to appeal the decision directly to the Supreme Court.

In a 4-3 decision by Democratic-appointed judges, the Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that former President Donald Trump (pictured) is ineligible to run for president, angering the Trump campaign and Republicans, who said the decision was politically motivated.

The Republican National Committee also pledged to help with the legal fight.

As for Ramaswamy, he has remained loyal to Trump despite running against the former president in the Republican primaries.

On the debate stage, the entrepreneur and political newcomer has taken particular hits from Nikki Haley, the former U.N. ambassador and South Carolina, who has slowly supplanted Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as the Republican runner-up.

Trump remains by far the frontrunner in the Republican primaries.

In Iowa, where Trump was campaigning on Tuesday night when the Colorado news broke, the ex-president has an average of support from 51.2 percent of potential Iowa caucusgoers, according to the Polling Average for Real Clear Politics.

By comparison, Ramaswamy gets 5.7 percent of the Republican vote in the Hawkeye State.