Ramaswamy promises to pull out of Colorado primary in response to Trump getting banned from ballot

Vivek Ramaswamy pledged to pull out of the Colorado primary if former President Donald Trump is not allowed to be on the ballot.

Mr. Ramaswamy said the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling that Mr. Trump engaged in insurrection and thus ineligible to be on the state’s ballot is “what an actual attack on Democracy looks like.”

“Having tried every trick in the book to eliminate President Trump from running in this election, the bipartisan Establishment is now deploying a new tactic to bar him from ever holding office again: the 14th Amendment,” Mr. Ramaswamy said in a statement.

“I pledge to withdraw from the Colorado GOP primary unless Trump is also allowed to be on the state’s ballot, and I demand that Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, and Nikki Haley to do the same immediately — or else they are tacitly endorsing this illegal maneuver which will have disastrous consequences for our country,” he added.

Mr. Ramaswamy, a former biotech investor, has been running a Trump-inspired longshot bid for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.

He has separated himself from the rest of the pack with his overt public praise of Mr. Trump.

“Today’s decision is the latest election interference tactic to silence political opponents and swing the election for whatever puppet the Democrats put up this time by depriving Americans of the right to vote for their candidate of choice,” Mr. Ramaswamy said.