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Republican lawmakers in three swing states have announced their plan to remove President Joe Biden from their state ballots.
Aaron Bernstine of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Cory McGarr of the Arizona House of Representatives and Charlice Byrd of the Georgia House of Representatives released a joint statement on Thursday announcing their plan to remove Biden from the 2024 general election ballots in those three states.
Newsweek reached out to Bernstine, McGarr and Byrd via email and phone, as well as the White House and Biden's campaign via email for comment.
The move comes in the wake of the Colorado Supreme Court's 4-3 decision that former President Donald Trump, who is the GOP front-runner for the 2024 presidential nomination, would be barred from the state's primary ballot. The ruling cited the 14th Amendment, which bans U.S. officials who take an oath to uphold the Constitution from holding office in the future if they engage in insurrection. The court believed that Trump could not hold office again because of his involvement in the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.