Trump to face new bid to remove him from 2024 ballot after Supreme Court ruling: Latest

The one-term senator from Arizona announced on Tuesday that she would serve the remainder of her term before stepping down from the Senate at the end of the year, rather than run for re-election. Following her win in a nail-biter election as a Democrat in 2018, Ms Sinema joined the Senate in January of 2019.

Despite appearing on the network by phone this morning, Donald Trump is again complaining about his one-time favourite network, Fox News.

The former president wrote on Truth Social:

How many times is FoxNews going to put on RINO Bush apologist Marc Thiessen. He was wrong about me in 2016, and in 2020 I got more votes than any sitting President in history, but the Election was RIGGED. My record on Endorsements is unmatched by anyone, EVER! Put on people who understand what is going on in politics…And while you’re at it, GET RID OF KARL ROVE!!!

On a more positive note he seems very happy with how Super Tuesday is going, posting: “GREAT VOTER ENTHUSIASM TODAY. THAT IS A VERY GOOD THING!”

Donald Trump appeared by phone on Fox and Friends this morning, delivering some boilerplate talking points in a friendly atmosphere as he prepares himself for Super Tuesday.

Here are a few choice quotes from his appearance, in which he claimed that Hamas’s 7 October attack on Israel would not have happened if he had been president, that Little League games are being cancelled because of migrants sleeping in city parks and that Nikki Haley “misrepresents facts” (!)

On the Supreme Court’s ballot ruling in his favour

“There should be no question. If you win or lose, you have to win or lose at the ballot box, not the courtroom. It was a well-crafted decision and both sides were respectful of it.”

On the spectre of “migrant crime”

“We have to beat Biden, he is the worst president in history. The borders are an embarrassment. People are coming from jails and mental institutions, nobody has seen anything like this. They are coming from jails and prisons and mental institutions and insane asylums and there are terrorists. What they are doing is incredible, they are poisoning our country. We will close the border and deport the people and get them out, no country can sustain what we’re going through right now.

“We have a different country than even two years ago, this migrant destruction of our country. Look at New York and Chicago and Los Angeles. We have a much different country in many ways, also from a voting standpoint, people mostly happy three years ago are devastated right now. They can’t go to hospitals or schools and can’t use playgrounds. I read where Little League is being cancelled because you have migrants living all over the parks and fields. Our country is a mess. We will make a heavy play for New York and Virginia, states that generally don’t go Republican, I think will go Republican a lot. I think frankly the Democrats have themselves a big problem.”

“You had a horrible invasion that would have never happened if I was president. Iran was broke, no money for Hamas or Hezbollah, this would have never happened. They wouldn’t have done it to me. They have no respect for Biden and frankly they got soft and what happened is incredible. It never should have happened. Russia would never have attacked Ukraine, never. You know it, everybody knows it and that wouldn’t have happened. This is on Biden.”

On his New York fraud trial

“The decision was made by a crooked judge, a 100 per cent crooked clubhouse judge. With an equally crooked attorney general. Who campaigned on ‘I’ll get Trump’. People are leaving New York. Businesses are fleeing New York because of that decision. They use statutes to go after me. Never used before.”

“She misrepresents facts, she is not doing very well against Biden. I want everybody to come together and have a unified party, our real opponent happens to be named Biden and he’s a disaster, the worst president in this history.

“Whether she likes hearing that or not, there is no path for her to win. Today I should win hopefully every state. I won North Dakota last night 87 to practically nothing. There is no path. You saw the vote in Texas, that is a poll. 100 per cent for Trump. No path. What is she doing other than hurting the Republican Party? Democrats gave her a lot of money, because as a certain person, Gavin Newsom, said, she is the best option for Democrats. That is right. She lost when you had a Republican primary and Democrats were allowed to vote. I still won and won in South Carolina against her. There is no path for Nikki Haley. I wish Nikki the best, she stood up and said ‘I will never run against our president’ and then she ran. So those things, you don’t like to see. You like to see people that are truthful.”

Talk show host Seth Meyers mocked Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign rallies as he branded them, “Half mega-church, half ComicCon with way worse merch.”

The comic trolled the one-term former president and pointed out how Mr Trump had even played a rendition of the US national anthem sung by convicted insurrectionists.

Amelia Neath has the story:

CNN’s Manu Raju reports that Senator John Thune did not inform Donald Trump before announcing his intention to lead the Republican Party in the Senate following the upcoming retirement of Senator Mitch McConnell as Minority Leader.

Mr Thune and the former president had spoken the weekend before Mr McConnell made his announcement.

…with a bizarre rant broadcast live from Mar-a-Lago.

Ariana Baio looks at the immediate implications of the Supreme Court’s ruling on states’ ability to remove him from primary ballots: