Former Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday argued that the states, not the Constitution, could decide if former President Donald Trump remains on their ballots for the 2024 election.
“There’s a view of the Constitution [under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment] that he should not be able to run for president,” Pelosi told ABC News. “That’s not the point. The point now is different states have different laws.”
Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis may give Pelosi a taste of that thinking in a way she won’t find palatable.
According to the conservative website Trending Politics, Florida is weighing whether to yank President Joe Biden’s name off its primary ballot, after the decision by Maine’s top elections official to ax Trump.
Read: Trump Appeals Maine Secretary Of State’s Decision To Boot Him From Ballot
Florida would do so because Biden has utterly failed to uphold his duty to enforce federal laws covering illegal immigration.
If Florida follows through, Democrats in the state would not have another candidate to vote for, since the Florida Democratic Party decided that Biden would be the only choice on the ballot.
“To have one election official decide that somebody is guilty of, quote, ‘insurrection,’ when there has not been a criminal conviction of anybody, much less the candidate himself, that opens up Pandora’s box,” DeSantis recently told reporters in Iowa, according to Trending Politics.
“I’m actually looking at this in Florida now,” DeSantis added.
“Could we make a credible case that Biden [should be removed] because of the invasion of 8 million [migrants]?”
The state is already backing Trump in his bid to get the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn last month’s decision by the four-Democrat majority on the Colorado Supreme Court to boot Trump under the 14th Amendment — which, in its effort to stop former Confederates from serving in the federal government after the Civil War, says nothing about the office of the president.
In Iowa, DeSantis insisted that he rejects “tit-for-tat” political payback. But he added that he also opposes “fighting with one hand tied behind your back.”
“Whatever the rules are applied to us, we’re going to fight back and apply the rules the other way,” he said. “I do think the U.S. Supreme Court is going to have to take the case. I do think they’re going to have to rein this in because I just think, if you look at it, it just becomes too different.”
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