On Tuesday, Fox host Kilmeade interviewed Ashcroft on Fox & Friends and gave little pushback to his statements. Ashcroft suggested that Maine’s secretary of state might “throw people off the ballot based on mere allegation” and threatened that if so, such a precedent would be “applied not just to Republicans, but to Democrats equally.” Kilmeade failed to ask what allegations Ashcroft might use to remove Biden from the ballot or target other Democrats in this hypothetical situation. Kilmeade then suggested that Bellows barred Trump from presidential candidacy because she’s “a socialist who loves Joe Biden,” to which Ashcroft replied that Bellows is a “political hack, a bureaucrat with no legal training.” (Bellows has received a number of threats following her decision to disqualify Trump’s candidacy.) As the interview concluded, Kilmeade commented that the precedent set by Maine and Colorado “better stop” because “it’s just going to be ugly for the country.” He praised Ashcroft for being “ready for action if the Supreme Court doesn’t take action to stop what Colorado and Maine did.”

Source: CNN January 10, 2024 19:43 UTC