Rival Republican Missouri gubernatorial hopefuls Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft – son of far right former US Attorney General John Ashcroft – and state Senator Bill Eigel – the Nazi who literally staged a book burning just a few months ago – are engaged in a contest to see who can perform more loudly for disgraced former President Trump by figuring out some 14th Amendment-based pretext for disqualifying President Joe Biden from the 2024 ballot in the Show Me State.
In one corner is Ashcroft telling NBC News "If Democrat states are saying we're not going to let these Republicans run, you bet you're going to see the same thing happening from Republican states. And it's not good. If you're playing a basketball game and the other team doesn't have to dribble the ball, eventually you're going to say, 'Why am I worried about dribbling the ball?'" which we guess is supposed to mean something. Biden "let an invasion unstopped into our country from the border," while Kamala Harris "supported people that were rebelling against the US government during the riots in 2020," Ashcroft said, adding he's "99 percent certain the Supreme Court will stop" the Trump disqualification "but if they don't, chaos is ahead and we've got to avoid it."
Eigel meanwhile put out a statement saying he's introducing a bill to disqualify Biden, saying in a press release that "'By the Democrats' own standard, Joe Biden should be immediately disqualified and removed from the ballot for the 'aid and comfort' he has given our enemies. Our country is being invaded, because Joe Biden has swung our southern border wide open. President Biden has allowed more than 8 million people to stroll across our border illegally, causing more harm to this country than any other president in American history. My legislation exposes the absolute absurdity of Colorado's and Maine's decisions to remove President Donald J Trump from the ballot. If radical leftists continue to push lies and fairytales in an attempt to kick Trump off the ballot in their states, Republicans have no choice but to buck up and fight back-use the facts to remove Biden from the ballot before he destroys this country even further. Democrats only believe in democracy when it favors them – let's expose their double standard hypocrisy. We must stand our ground to protect the security of our nation and the sovereignty of our people.'"
"Bill Eigel is the only Missouri gubernatorial candidate to endorse President Trump in his 2024 re-election bid," Eigel's statement added at the end to underscore the abject cuckery afoot.
Neither Eigel nor Ashcroft explained why they won't just go in front of a judge to ask them to rule that either the "border crisis" or the 2020 racial unrest were "insurrections."