In a while after the Colorado Superb Court docket issued its bombshell ruling that Donald Trump is disqualified from the state’s GOP number one poll, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick advised doing the similar to President Joe Biden over immigration.
On Tuesday night time, Patrick instructed Fox Information host Laura Ingraham: “Seeing what happened in Colorado tonight, Laura, makes me think — except we believe in democracy in Texas — maybe we should take Joe Biden off the ballot in Texas for allowing 8 million people to cross the border since he’s been president, disrupting our state far more than anything anyone else has done in recent history.”
Patrick was once on Fox Information to protect a brand new Texas legislation that makes illegal border crossings a state crime, permitting native police to arrest migrants who move the border and giving native judges the ability to reserve deportation. The legislation was once enacted as Biden reportedly considers stricter border measures in trade for help to Ukraine. Immigration rights teams have already sued Texas over the legislation.
It’s unclear how Texas officers would even start to pass about taking Biden off the poll — an concept Patrick floated whilst disregarding the Colorado Superb Court docket’s ruling as undemocratic in the similar breath. The Colorado determination may, then again, impact different presidential applicants but even so Trump.
On Tuesday night time, GOP hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy vowed to voluntarily pull his title off the poll in Colorado in cohesion with Trump, and he insisted that his closing number one competitors do the similar.
“I pledge to withdraw from the Colorado GOP primary ballot until Trump is also allowed to be on the ballot,” he wrote on X, “and I demand that Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, and Nikki Haley do the same immediately — or else they are tacitly endorsing this illegal maneuver which will have disastrous consequences for our country.”