Like Lincoln, barring Trump won’t stop his victory at the poll, says expert on U.S. election

Simon Ateba, a U.S. based journalist of Cameroonian descent who has been covering the White House and U.S. Africa relations, has predicted that the Colorado Supreme Court banning of former President Donald Trump from contesting the 2024 election would not stop his victory in the November poll.

The Supreme Court in the Democratic state of Colorado on Wednesday, ruled that Donald Trump’s name should be removed from the 2024 U.S. presidential ballot over some of his actions on January 6, 2021 that were considered to be acts of insurrection.

But in a post on X, Ateba said the court’s decision is not likely to stop Trump’s victory at the poll in November. He recalled that similar action didn’t also stop Abraham Lincoln from emerging as U.S. President after 10 states controlled by the Democratic Party removed his name on the ballot because of his stance against slavery.

He said: “Just like Colorado now, the Democrats, who were mainly slave owners, barred Republican presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln from appearing on the ballots in 10 Southern states during the 1860 presidential election. But Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th President of the United States, becoming the first Republican president in American history.

“NOTE: These states were South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Virginia.

“NOTE: Lincoln did not appear on the ballots in those Southern states because they did not support his candidacy due to his anti-slavery stance. The Democrats wanted to keep slavery forever.

“NOTE: Those slave states chose to support other candidates or not include his name on their ballots. However, despite not being on the ballots in those states, he won the election with a majority of electoral votes from the states where he was on the ballot.

“MY TAKE: It’s ironic that the Republicans now are described as the racists, people who hate black people when actually, they brought slavery to an end, and the Democrats wanted to keep black people enslaved, even going to war to secede. May God help us not repeat history.”