Colorado throws a wrench into Donald Trump's best laid election plans.

As of now, he is not a qualified candidate in the state of Colorado.

If the US Supreme Court does not take the case or intervene, and Donald Trump will not be on the

presidential primary ballot. It's a purely partisan ploy and the Supreme Court

ought to take this up as soon as possible.

2024 was already shaping up to be unpredictable and destabilizing

and that was before Colorado.

We'll talk about what next year could bring us tonight on Washington Week.

This is Washington Week with the Atlantic.

Good evening and welcome to Washington Week. Well, it's been a hell of a year.

Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, a revolution in AI,

a wildly dysfunctional Congress, that's an understatement,

an ex-president under indictment, and a potentially cataclysmic

election on the horizon. In other words, Merry Christmas! We're not going to talk

about all of this tonight because we don't have five hours to get to everything but we're going to get

to a lot of it and joining me to plow through tonight are Lisa de Jardin, the congressional

correspondent for PBS News Hour, Adam Harris, my colleague and a staff writer at the Atlantic,

Zolan Cano Youngs is a White House correspondent for the New York Times,

and Susan Page is the Washington Bureau Chief for USA Today.

Okay, we have like 23 minutes, not five hours, sorry.

But we're going to do this.

But let's before we do the what's coming down the road, let's talk about the road.

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