Donald Trump won a symbolic landslide victory Tuesday in the first state to be removed from the 2024 ballot.
Associated Press called President Trump’s Colorado Republican primary is 7:09pm MST. With 42% of the results known, Trump had secured 61% of the vote to Haley’s 35.5%.
Trump’s victory in Colorado came a day after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a Colorado Supreme Court ruling that removed Trump’s name from ballots.
The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision that only Congress can deny candidates access to the ballot has restored Trump’s name to state ballots across the country, a decision still pending in the courts. The other lawsuits were annulled. The lawsuit alleges that President Trump is under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which disqualifies certain public officials deemed to have committed insurrection from holding public office, even though no court has ever found him guilty of such an act. He argued that the “Insurrection Clause” applied to President Trump.
Mr. Trump would have appeared on the ballot regardless of yesterday’s ruling because the Colorado order was stayed by the Colorado Supreme Court until the U.S. Supreme Court took action. The result was a symbolic victory for Mr. Trump, who has spent significant time and resources fighting 14th Amendment cases in courts across the country.
This was the first time the Supreme Court had ruled on the Insurrection Clause.
Colorado was one of the last Super Tuesday states considered relatively favorable for Haley, but her projected Tuesday night totals were underwhelming.
The final allocation of delegates has not yet been determined. To win one of the state’s 37 delegates, candidates in Colorado’s Republican primary must reach 20% of the vote through a complex delegate-allocation process. Ms. Haley will reach her low threshold, but Super Tuesday has not been kind to her in Colorado or any other state.
Some states, such as Colorado, award delegates proportionally according to a formula that varies from state to state, while many states, such as California, which have large delegates, award delegates to candidates who meet a certain threshold. (50% in California).
Bradley Jay is Breitbart News’ Capitol Hill correspondent. Follow him on X/Twitter. @BradleyAJay.
