WASHINGTON DC (WSAU) – Several Colorado voters are being represented by a Washington, DC-based watchdog organization in a lawsuit that aims to prevent GOP front-runner Donald Trump from appearing on the state’s ballot in 2024 under the 14th Amendment.
The Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington (CREW), in a news statement on Wednesday, asserts that Trump “disqualified himself from public office by violating Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.”
According to this clause of the Constitution, no person in a position of authority “shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of six Republican and unaffiliated Colorado voters, Trump broke his oath of office after losing the 2020 presidential election “by recruiting, inciting and encouraging a violent mob that attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021, in a futile attempt to remain in office.”
A spokesperson for the Trump campaign, Steven Cheung, stated in a statement to ABC News that “the people who are pursuing this absurd conspiracy theory and political attack on President Trump are stretching the law beyond recognition.”
The Real Clear Politics average of the most recent polls on a potential rematch between Biden and Trump shows Trump gaining pace in the last two weeks, narrowing the margin to just seven-tenths of a percentage point. The Wall Street Journal’s most recent survey, which showed Biden and Trump tied at 46%.
The results that Trump has against Biden are not unique to just the WSJ survey. End-of-August polls from the Economist/YouGov, Morning Consult, Emerson, and the Messenger/HarrisX show Trump and Biden trading the lead by just one percentage point.
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