Rep. Jerry Carl (R-AL.) claims efforts to disqualify Donald Trump from the ballot under the 14th Amendment for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot is “the new COVID for 2024.”
“I’ve come to the conclusion this is the new COVID for 2024. In 2020, they had us locked down. We couldn’t get out and vote. We could do all this absentee voting. Everything was built around fear,” Carl said in a Fox Business interview, failing to mention that Trump was president in 2020. “So now the new fear and what the Democrat Party is trying to do here is to tear Trump down and say he’s unqualified to run for this office.”
“That is not their job to determine that, that’s we, the voters,” he continued. “No one has the right to be taken off a ballot because a secretary of state or someone in a position thinks they can do it. It just doesn’t work that way. So we’ve got to push back.”
On Thursday, Maine’s Secretary of State Shenna Bellows concluded that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution prohibits Trump from serving in office again due to his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and disqualified him from the ballot.
Bellows’ office said the decision will not be enforced until the courts rule on the issue.
Maine was the second state to disqualify Trump from the ballot after Colorado last week. The Trump campaign will appeal the rulings.
