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‘Tit for tat’: DeSantis ‘looking’ at booting Biden from FL ballot – cites ‘invasion’ of 8M illegal immigrants

January 7, 2024 | | Print Article

Florida Governor and Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis admits that it’s “not the right way to do it,” but says he’s looking into ways to keep President Biden off his state’s ballot in response to efforts by states to boot off former President Donald Trump.

“Any time you have a partisan secretary of state, they’re gonna go after the other party’s candidate, and this is just gonna be tit for tat, and it’s not gonna end well,” DeSantis told reporters, according to Fox News Digital.

“You could make a case — we’re actually, I’m actually looking at this in Florida now,” the governor said. “Could we make a credible case that Biden, because of the invasion of eight million?”

“Again, I don’t think that’s the right way to do it,” he said.

But, the governor argued, it’s better than “fighting with one hand tied behind your back.”

“I think if this is going to happen for them . . . I don’t believe in fighting with one hand tied behind your back,” he stated. “Whatever the rules are applied to us, we’re going to fight back and play the rules the other way.”

As president, DeSantis vowed he would “end this stuff.”

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“You know, we’ve got a better way forward,” he said. “We’re not going to have to worry about those issues. And then when I become president, I’m going to be able to address all the lawfare and all the weaponization, and we’ll be able to end this stuff once and for all.”

Some of DeSantis’s detractors cheered him on.

“I don’t like DeSantis anymore… but do it!” exclaimed one user on X. “Kick Biden off the ballot for the insurrection at the border!”

Others questioned DeSantis’s motives.

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“DeSantis is only doing this because he wants it to be ok to keep Trump off the ballot too,” one user wrote.

The idea of disqualifying Biden isn’t “far-fetched” according to one user.

“This isn’t that far-fetched.. people keep thinking it’s crazy, but there is a path for disqualification of Biden in article 4 section 4,” one user wrote. “It would be a long shot, but not impossible… ”

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And still others believe that answering an unconstitutional action with an unconstitutional action would be a “horrible move.”

“I actually agree with Desantis on that one,” said one user. “But it would be a horrible move. Can’t fight fire with fire this time.”

As BizPac Review reported, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear Trump’s appeal to the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to kick him off the state’s ballot for the “insurrection” of January 6, 2021.

Section 3 of the 14th Amendment prevents individuals who took an oath to the Constitution and then engaged in insurrection from holding office.

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Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows also issued a ruling Dec. 28 finding Trump was ineligible to appear on the state’s ballot, which he appealed Tuesday, and, according to Fox News Digital, “the Illinois State Board of Elections (SBE) will hold a vote this month to decide whether to remove the former president’s name.”

Oral arguments in the Colorado case are set to begin on Feb. 8, 2024.

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