Biden's top opponents don't support attempts to get Trump off the ballot: 'We have to support democracy'

Former President Donald Trump won the unanimous support of Democrats fighting to unseat President Joe Biden from the top of their ticket in one of their key legal battles.

(Video: NewsNation)

On Friday, NewsNation host Dan Abrams did what the Democratic National Committee has refused to do for the 2024 election cycle, and that was give party opponents seeking to unseat Biden a platform to hear his voice Consistent with this theme, when asked about legal challenges to Trump's ballot access, the candidates gave several reasons why they were in favor of leaving the final decision up to voters.

“He has not been convicted of the crime of insurrection,” noted writer Marianne Williamson as the first forum member to come forward with the question. Sitting between Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips and commentator Cenk Uygur, she continued: “It hasn't been, and so for a judge to just say that, I think it's very dangerous.”

“People who love Donald Trump will vote for Donald Trump. We could impeach him 91 more times, he could be in jail, people will vote for him. Anything we do to try to obstruct Donald Trump, that's not the way we're going to win the 24 . We will win on the 24th by giving the American people a better life,” Williamson argued. “We'll beat him in trouble. We won't beat him in court.”

With the Supreme Court scheduled to hear arguments in February on the Colorado case that moved to remove the former president from the ballot, a decision that will likely affect similar challenges across the country, the Turkish-born Uyghur related his own situation with Trump's.

Asked specifically if the 14th Amendment provided grounds to keep the GOP figure off the ballot, he said, “No, I don't. I think the voters should decide, whether it's us in the primaries at the polls, or whether Donald Trump in a primary or general election. If we believe that democracy is at stake, we should actually participate in democracy. We should support democracy.”

“But I want people to understand, the 14th Amendment is a complicated issue both in Section 1, as it applies to me, Section 3, as it applies to Donald Trump, and for the courts to decide,” said the host of “The Young.” Turks” he continued before discussing his own legal case trying to justify foreign-born natural citizens running for the country's highest office.

Reasoned thinking gave way to hyperbole when the congressman chimed in with his take on the US Capitol breach on January 6, 2021, unlike Williamson, as he stated, “I was stuck in the chamber of the House on January 6. quiet part loudly, Donald Trump inspired an insurrection.”

“All my colleagues in the Senate and the House know, we tried to prosecute him and we failed,” Phillips recalled. However, instead of continuing to beat a dead horse, the Minnesota legislature determined that the final decision should be up to the public.

“Do I think the Democratic Party should be looking for legal channels to beat Donald Trump? No! In the same way they shouldn't be going through the same channels to keep us out of the polls,” he said. “We should let voters – Americans be the judge and the jury”.

According to Phillips, voters will begin to weigh in on Jan. 15 in Iowa, when caucuses officially kick off the nominating process with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley leading the pack of remaining candidates in the challenge. Trump for the delegates.

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A native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College, where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and seeker of truth, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and dog, and when he's not researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel ·the.

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