DeSantis Rejects Ramaswamy’s Call to Withdraw from Ballot Over Colorado Trump Ban

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who’s competing for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, said that he will not heed fellow presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy’s call to withdraw from the primary ballot in Colorado after the state’s supreme court ruled to bar former President Donald Trump from the ballot. Mr. Ramaswamy condemned the Colorado Supreme Court’s 4–3 ruling, which makes President Trump the first candidate in U.S. history to be deemed ineligible to make a White House bid, and vowed to withdraw from the GOP primary ballot in Colorado. “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,” Mr. Ramaswamy wrote on X on Dec. 19....