Minnesota secretary of state predicts Trump will either be on the ballot 'everywhere' or 'nowhere'

Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon said Saturday that the U.S. Supreme Court will "have to" take up former President Donald Trump's expected appeal of the Colorado court's decision to boot him from the 2024 primary ballot. 

On Tuesday, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump engaged in an insurrection during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, violating the 14th Amendment. 

“We’re never going to have a situation in this country where one or some cluster of states decides that Donald Trump is not on the ballot and everyone else decides he is,” Simon said during an interview with MSNBC. “He will either be on the ballot everywhere or nowhere, and the U.S. Supreme Court is going to make sure of that.”

Simon later added that there was a possibility that the Supreme Court would just return the case to Colorado for more argumentation or a different ruling. 

“There’s so many different ways that the Supreme Court could go, there are multiple off ramps for them, for example, to decide the case without deciding the ultimate issue, which is, did Donald Trump engage in or help an insurrection?” he said. “They don’t have to decide that. There are a number of ways they can dispose of the case and get an outcome without deciding that question.”

Other states such as Virginia, West Virginia and Arizona have also attempted to remove Trump from the ballot under the 14th Amendment, claiming that Trump participated in an insurrection during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. 

A West Virginia judge earlier this week dismissed the lawsuit to keep the former president off the ballot, arguing it lacked standing. 

Simon called the Colorado case "the canary in the coal mine."