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The Playbook Podcast

December 6, 2023: Colorado's Supreme Court weighs Trump's eligibility

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

News, Daily News, Government, Politics

3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The Colorado Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today on whether Trump should be disqualified from the ballot in 2024 based on alleged violations of the 14th amendment. The case, which legal reporter Kyle Cheney explains is almost bound to end up being heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, has implications both for the 2024 election and legal precedent for years to come. Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels interviews legal reporter Kyle Cheney.

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0:00.0

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0:06.6

Hey, good morning. I am Playbook co-Arthur Eugene Daniels. It's Wednesday, December 6th.

0:12.2

Here's what's driving the day. First up, we are likely to see a procedural vote that will

0:17.6

almost certainly fail. It will be on President Biden's Ukraine, Israel, and

0:22.6

border funding requests $106 billion that the president requested quite some time ago.

0:29.7

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has moved to set this vote up because essentially,

0:34.5

senators need a deadline to get them to focus. But the negotiators that have been kind of figuring out what would actually go in a bill like this

0:43.3

continue to seem very, very far apart.

0:46.3

So keep your eye on that, likely to fail, but still will kind of give everyone a sense of where this thing is going.

0:53.3

Also, it's debate day for Republicans are going to hit the stage.

0:58.5

Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida.

1:01.8

Nikki Haley, the former UN ambassador in governor of South Carolina.

1:06.7

Businessman Vivek Ramaswamy.

1:09.6

And just under the wire here, former governor of New Jersey,

1:13.6

Chris Christie.

1:14.6

The four of them will hit the stage at the University of Alabama.

1:17.6

And one thing that has remained true throughout this debate cycle is that Nikki Haley Star continues

1:23.6

to rise every time that she does one of these.

1:25.6

After the last debate, you started to see

1:27.9

her poll numbers go up even more. And more importantly, she's gotten more donors and more backing.

1:33.0

Right now, we do not have any other debates scheduled before people start voting in Iowa on January 15th.

1:41.2

That could change. That could change. But at this point, this is their last

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