Ex-Obama Strategist Delivers Surprise Warning Over Trump Ballot Case
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David Axelrod, CNN commentator and former Obama adviser, explained why kicking Trump off the ballot "worries" him ahead of the 2024 election.
David Axelrod, CNN commentator and former adviser to President Barack Obama, warned of a “very strong reaction” if the Supreme Court upholds the decision by Colorado’s highest court to kick Donald Trump off the presidential primary ballot in 2024.
Axelrod appeared on CNN just one day before SCOTUS is set to hear oral arguments Thursday over the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to strike Trump from the state’s ballot, citing the insurrection clause in the Constitution.
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows removed the former president from the state’s primary ballot under the clause in a similar ruling back in December.
Axelrod, who declared that the decision to boot Trump from the ballot would “rip the country apart” if upheld, told CNN’s Erin Burnett that the move would be “very, very disruptive” in this country.
“I think it will create a huge reaction and that worries me. It worries me because partly because of Donald Trump. There’s so much cynicism about our institutions already and the strength of our democracy are these institutions,” Axelrod said.
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