Republican candidates came forward in support of Trump, said- boycott the elections

Indian-American Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has urged his rivals to follow him and abstain from voting in the US states of Maine and Colorado, which disqualified party frontrunner Donald Trump from contesting the White House race this year. Is done. Maine and Colorado made the 77-year-old former president ineligible to run for president in the states this year due to his role in the 2021 attack on the US Capitol. Trump’s disqualification was based on the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which officials say bars anyone who takes an oath to support the U.S. Constitution from holding office in the future if they are involved in insurrection.

The 38-year-old biotech entrepreneur said his goal is to disarm the two states that have removed Trump from their ballots by boycotting his elections. Trump is currently the frontrunner among Republican Party candidates, facing several legal hurdles ahead of the November 5, 2024 presidential election. The Hill newspaper quoted Ramaswamy as saying that if they (the states) are going to behave in that unconstitutional manner, then Republican candidates can actually stop this form of election interference. “I said I would remove my name from those ballots and I called on other Republicans in the race to do the same,” he said.

The report said that Republican Party presidential candidate Indian American former US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis have all made efforts to prevent Trump from participating in the election. Have protested.