Over half of Americans approve of Colorado ruling to bar Trump from state's ballot: poll | The Hill
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by Nick Robertson - 12/20/23 10:57 PM ET
Over half of Americans approve of a Colorado Supreme Court ruling to bar former President Trump from the state's primary ballot, citing the 14th Amendment, according to a YouGov poll released Wednesday.
The online survey, published just a day after the ruling, found that 54 percent of respondents either strongly or somewhat approve of the decision, with 35 percent disapproving.
The former president now has the opportunity to seek review of the case from the U.S. Supreme Court, where the justices can ultimately decide whether Trump incited the Jan. 6 Capitol riots and whether arguments under the 14th Amendment can keep him off the ballot.
Nearly two thirds of Democrats, 63 percent, strongly approve of the ruling, according to the poll, with another 21 percent somewhat approving.
Independents were split, but a larger proportion support the decision, 48 percent to 35. Additionally, about a quarter of Republicans said they support the ruling, 12 percent strongly supporting it.
The ruling has received partisan support and criticism, with Democrats lauding it as upholding democracy while Republicans warn it could spell chaos for electoral politics.
It's unclear how the Supreme Court will rule when it likely takes the case. The same YouGov poll also asked respondents to estimate where the high court will land.
A plurality, 43 percent, expect the case to be overturned, while just 23 percent believe it will be upheld. Just a third of Democrats said they believe the Supreme Court will keep Trump off the ballot.
The YouGov poll surveyed about 3,500 people online over the course of Wednesday, with a margin of error of about 4 percent.
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... and the death threats by maga scum against the colorado supreme court judges that issued the ruling are now spiking.
Over half of Americans approve of a Colorado Supreme Court ruling to bar former President Trump from the state's primary ballot, citing the 14th Amendment, according to a YouGov poll released Wednesday.
I didn't know we had so many constitutional lawyers in the country. The poll might as well be one about if you like Trump or not, you would get the same exact results.
“I didn't know we had so many constitutional lawyers in the country.”
But we all understand we have too many sycophants who willingly refuse to accept the tenets written into the constitution. And doing so in the misused name of ‘patriotism’.
Like I said we have too many people that think they understand the tenets written into the constitution, like a constitutional lawyer, when in reality it is just partisan feelings.
We have people asking whether or not this is fair to Trump, when they should be asking how did the country get to the point where someone who enabled an insurrection is a candidate for president in a major American political party.
Fair to the law is a much more important question. This feels too much like partisan politics and I'm sure there are a lot of people who feel the same way.