- Trump easily defeated Nikki Haley in Colorado after the state tried to remove him from the ballot
- The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 on Monday that Trump must remain on the state ballot
- Trump supporters in Colorado celebrated the unanimous decision to keep the former president on the ballot as they headed to the polls
Former President Donald Trump won the Republican presidential primary in Colorado after the Supreme Court unsuccessfully tried to remove him from the ballot.
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled 4-3 in December that Trump could not appear on the ballot, citing his role in the Jan. 6 riots on Capitol Hill protesting the 2020 election. in the 14th Amendment banning insurrectionists from holding office, the state court ruled Trump ineligible to run for office.
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday just before Tuesday’s election that Trump should remain on the ballot, arguing that each state did not have the legal authority to disqualify a candidate.
Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump, speaks at his Mar-a-Lago estate,
Judges of the United States Supreme Court
As Colorado voters went to the polls on Tuesday, many Trump supporters praised the Supreme Court for ruling to keep the former president on the ballot.
Jeff, a voter from Byers, Colorado, told the Daily Mail on Tuesday that he was encouraged by the Supreme Court’s decision.
‘I thought it was crazy not to let the people decide. They are not allowed to decide for us. I didn’t think it would be unanimous. It made me feel a lot better.’
Mark, a voter at the polls in Bennett, Colorado, agreed.
“I didn’t think there was any reason why they should have taken Trump out of the ballot. He hasn’t been convicted or anything,” he said. “The fact that the Supreme Court ruling was unanimous, that says something, what Colorado wanted to do was wrong.”
Early voting in the state began on February 26, but voters were still required to return their ballots on Tuesday.
Colorado’s Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswald said she was “disappointed” by the ruling.
“We believe that states like Colorado (and) states across the country have the authority to disqualify oath-breaking insurrectionists from our ballots,” she said in an interview on ABC News.
In Fort Morgan, Colorado, Shayla, a Trump supporter, said she waited until Election Day to vote in the presidential primaries.
“Honestly, I wanted to make sure Trump was on the ballot,” she said.
She said she supported Trump but urged him to get off social media.
“I think he does a lot for our country, he just needs to get off social media,” she said. “No Facebook, no Twitter, none of that nonsense.”
With 84 percent of the vote, Trump led with 63 percent of the Republican vote with 407,524 votes and only 216,742 votes for Haley.