Biden insists he’s ‘okay’ with Trump being on the ballot in 2024 as multiple states try to kick him off – even though he’s trailing in the polls

President Joe Biden said he is “fine” with Donald Trump getting on the ballot in 2024, even though objections to the former president’s candidacy have been filed in at least 35 states.

“That’s fine,” Biden told reporters at the White House before heading to Florida to raise money in Trump’s backyard.

The president was less than an hour from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach when he attended a fundraiser at the Pelican Club in Jupiter. He told donors he thinks he can win Trump’s home state in the general election.

“I think we can win Florida,” Biden said.

Trump was disqualified from the primaries in Colorado and Maine, but he has appealed. The Supreme Court will hear arguments on the Colorado case next week.

The former president will remain on the ballot in Illinois after the state’s election board unanimously said Tuesday that it does not have the authority to decide whether he participates in an insurrection, which is the reasoning other states used to keep him off the ballot keep out.

Trump praised the ruling.

“Thank you to the Illinois State Board of Elections for voting 8-0 to protect our country’s citizens from radical left lunatics seeking to destroy it. The VOTE was 8-0 in favor of keeping your favorite president (ME!) on the ballot. I love Illinois. Make America Great Again!,” he wrote on Truth Social.

Trump is still vying for the Republican presidential nomination, but he won the first two contests and is at the top of the polls.

The voting challenges focus on whether Trump sought to reverse his 2020 defeat through the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol and whether that makes him ineligible to run for president again.

The cases are based on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which was enacted after the Civil War and disqualifies government officials “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” from office.

Trump claims he was not involved in an insurrection and accuses the states of attempting to interfere in the election. The former president is being sued in federal court and in the state of Georgia for his role in overturning the results of the 2020 election.

Of the 35 states where challenges have been filed, Biden carried 22 in the 2020 election and Trump 13. Trump also won a single electoral vote in Maine, which is split by congressional district.

Lawsuits over Trump’s voting status are taking place in Arizona, Alaska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

Challenges to Trump’s name on the ballot have been rejected in Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Rhode Island.

Michigan and Minnesota made it all the way to the respective states’ Supreme Courts, but judges in both states ruled that only the Republican Party can decide who appears on the primary ballot, regardless of the candidate’s qualifications.

Next week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Trump’s appeal a Colorado saying making him ineligible to vote for president in that state.

The country’s highest court has never ruled in a case involving Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

The amendment was passed in 1868 to prevent former Confederates from returning to office after the Civil War, but has rarely been used since.

Some legal scholars say the post-civil war clause applies to Trump his role when trying overturn the 2020 presidential election and encourage his supporters to do so storms the US Capitol after he lost to Joe Biden.

Dozens of cases have been filed across the country seeking to ban Trump from the presidency under Section 3.

The Colorado case is the only one to date that has succeeded in court.

Maine’s Democratic Secretary of State also ruled that Trump has violated the 14th Amendment and is no longer eligible for the White House, but her ruling is on hold until the Supreme Court makes a decision.