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Jonathan Capehart:

My gosh, David.

I don't buy it. The idea that this is a cabal of liberal elites attacking democracy, going after Donald Trump, is ridiculous, one, because these challenges are being brought by Republicans. There are Republicans who are trying to keep Donald Trump off the Republican primary ballot. That is definitely the case in Colorado.

And the same people who brought that case are involved in all the other cases. The other thing is that these aren't random — the Maine secretary of state is not some random official. This is someone who didn't just make up this decision out of whole cloth. She had a hearing a week ago, an eight-hour-long hearing, where she had all sorts of briefs, all sorts of testimony, and she came to her decision.

The key thing here is that this case is going to go before the Supreme Court, because the one thing the Supreme Court does not like is dissonance within the country. You have got Colorado and Maine saying he's got to be off the ballot. You have Michigan, and I believe today California said Trump is on the ballot. You can't have a hodgepodge of decisions around the country involving something this major.

So the Supreme Court is going to have to decide this case. And, as the Minnesota secretary of state said to me last weekend, he sees the Supreme Court deciding unanimously either all states have to have him on the ballot or all states have to have him off the ballot.

But there's not going to be this split-the-baby decision.

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