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House Speaker Mike Johnson also threw his weight behind the former president and rejected the ruling, calling it nothing but a thinly veiled partisan attack.

Trumps primary competitors joined the fray, including former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has staked his campaign on positioning himself as a foil to Trump.

Christie, answering a question at a town hall in Bedford, New Hampshire, said the ruling was probably premature because Trump hasnt been tried for inciting insurrection.

I do not believe Donald Trump should be prevented from being president of the United States by any court. I think he should be prevented from being president of the United States by the voters of this country, Christie said, adding that he had not yet had a chance to read the ruling that came out while he was en route to his campaign event.

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley echoed Christies remarks. We dont need to have judges making these decisions, we need voters to make these decisions, she said in Iowa, according to the Des Moines Register.

She added at a campaign event : Were going to win this the right way.

Vivek Ramaswamy pledged to withdraw his name from the Colorado primary ballot and encouraged his opponents to do the same.

The Framers of the 14th Amendment would be appalled to see this narrow provisionintended to bar former U.S. officials who switched to the Confederacy from seeking public officebeing weaponized by a sitting President and his political allies to prevent a former President from seeking reelection, Ramaswamy wrote in a social media post .

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, another of Trumps primary rivals, also attacked what he saw as judicial overreach. The Left invokes democracy to justify its use of power, even if it means abusing judicial power to remove a candidate from the ballot based on spurious legal grounds. SCOTUS should reverse, he wrote on a post on X.

GOP Whip Tom Emmer of Minnesota, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz were among the many other Republicans to denounce the ruling on social media.

This is extreme judicial activism that is designed to suppress the vote and voices of hundreds of thousands of Coloradans, which is absolutely unacceptable, Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert said in a post to X.

Kari Lake, who famously refused to concede her loss in the 2022 Arizona governor race, called for the Supreme Court to block the state courts ruling.

Shortly after the ruling was announced, a spokesperson for Trumps campaign said that the former president would file an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Lisa Kashinsky, Kelly Garrity and Eric Bazail-Eimil contributed to this report.

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