DeSantis admits he’s 'looking' for 'credible case' to ban Biden from Florida’s 2024 ballot

Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis recently admitted that he was "looking" into ways he could ban President Joe Biden from appearing on the Sunshine State's 2024 presidential election ballot.

The Messenger reported that DeSantis remarked while campaigning alongside Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) that following Colorado and Maine's disqualification of former President Donald Trump from their states' Republican primary ballot, the GOP was in a "tit for tat" on ballot access that was "just not gonna end well." The term-limited Florida governor hinted at using the influx of immigrants at the Southern border as justification to disqualify Biden.

"You could make a case — I'm actually looking at this in Florida now [if we] could we make a credible case [to block Biden from the ballot]... because of the invasion of 8 million."

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While DeSantis effectively admitted there's not yet a credible case to justify disqualifying Biden from the Florida ballot, both Colorado and Maine have disqualified Trump due to his 2024 candidacy coming into conflict with Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution (also known as the "insurrection clause"). The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has agreed to hear Trump's appeal of the Colorado ruling, and a Maine superior court is due to rule on Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows' disqualification of the ex-president prior to the Pine Tree State's GOP primary.

The Colorado supreme court ruled 4-3 in the Anderson v. Griswold case that the January 6, 2021 riot at the US Capitol constituted an "insurrection," and interpreted Trump's actions as violating the clause's language that banned federal candidates from holding any "civilian or military" office who had "engaged in insurrection or rebellion" against the United States, or "given aid and comfort to the enemies thereof." Like Colorado's high court, Bellows also issued an administrative ruling that Trump was "not qualified to hold the office of president" due to his involvement in the January 6 insurrection.

DeSantis' estimate of eight million undocumented immigrants is not accurate. The Messenger reported that the actual number of immigrants who have entered the US since Biden became president in 2021 is closer to four million, and the vast majority of those immigrants came to the US legally.

Depending on SCOTUS' ruling, Trump may be disqualified from the ballot not just from Colorado and Maine, but from all 50 states if a majority of justices agree that Trump violated the insurrection clause.

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