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Republican presidential candidate Asa Hutchinson said Sunday that former
President Trump’s actions on Jan. 6 likely violated the 14th amendment of the
U.S. Constitution and that he is therefore disqualified from taking the nation’s
top office ever again. 

Hutchinson, one of the few Republicans who has been outwardly critical of Trump,
announced he qualified for this week’s GOP presidential primary debate and said
he would sign the required pledge to back the party’s eventual nominee.

In making his case, however, Hutchinson invoked an argument from some legal
scholars claiming that Trump might not be qualified to be president. 




“I’m not even sure he’s qualified to be the next president of the United States.
And so you can’t be asking us to support somebody that’s not perhaps even
qualified under our Constitution. And I’m referring to the 14th Amendment. A
number of legal scholars said that he is disqualified because of his actions on
January 6,” Hutchinson said in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.”



On how the legal argument would play out in practice, Hutchinson, the former
Arkansas governor, said he thinks “there should be a court declaration. And so
there would have to be a separate lawsuit that would be filed, in which there
would be a finding that the former president engaged in insurrection, and that
would disqualify him.”

“That’s one avenue,” he said. “The other way would be that if a specific state
made that determination on their own, then that would put the burden on someone
else challenging that. Either way, it winds up in court for a specific finding.”

“But I expect those lawsuits to be filed,” he continued. “I expect some states
to take that action, but I think it’s a serious jeopardy for Donald Trump under
our Constitution, not being qualified.”

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(Bloomberg) -- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will be center stage in a Milwaukee
debate Wednesday that features eight Republican candidates for president, taking
the spot that would have been occupied by front-runner Donald Trump.

The Republican National Committee announced the eight qualifying candidates
after Monday night’s deadline passed. They also include Ohio businessman Vivek
Ramaswamy, former Vice President Mike Pence, former Ambassador and South
Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, former New
Jersey Governor Chris Christie, former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson and
North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum.




Trump is not participating in the debate despite his overwhelming polling lead,
saying he didn’t wish to elevate his rivals. He instead plans to do an interview
with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson on X, the social media network formerly
known as Twitter. 

So DeSantis gets top billing — and the center spot alongside Ramaswamy — by
virtue of his higher poll numbers among the remaining candidates. 

The debate deadline poses a moment of truth for some lower polling candidates
who did not make the cut: Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, Michigan businessman Perry
Johnson, Texas pastor and business executive Ryan Binkley and California talk
show host Larry Elder.

Read More: Trump Says He Will ‘Not Be Doing the Debates’ With Rivals




Suarez claimed last week that he had met the polling criteria, but the surveys
he submitted did not meet the party’s criteria for quality. Johnson had also
claimed to have qualified. 



The Miami mayor previously said any candidate who did not qualify for the debate
should drop out. His campaign did not immediately respond to questions Monday on
his plans. 

In order to make the stage, candidates had to raise money from at least 40,000
donors and get 1% support in at least three polls. Those numbers will increase
for the second debate next month in California, as the party seeks to avoid a
repeat of the unwieldy debates of 2015 that were conducted over two separate
nights because there were so many candidates. 

Candidates also had to sign a pledge that they would support the party’s
eventual nominee. Trump has said he wouldn’t sign it. 

Former Texas Representative Will Hurd, a fierce Trump critic, also won’t be
debating in Milwaukee. Even if he had met the polling and donor requirements, he
said he could not support Trump if he became the nominee.

Fox News, which is hosting the Wednesday night forum, said Monday it would
restrict access to the debate venue for representatives of non-participating
candidates — meaning that Trump supporters won’t get to make the case for the
former president in “spin rooms” after the debate. But Fox spokeswoman Jessica
Jensen Ketner said other news organizations covering the debate could still
bring in Trump supporters as guests. 

(Uopdates with details on list in second paragraph.)

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