Haberman: Trump Privately Very Worried SCOTUS Will Rule Against Him On Ballot Removal

While former President Donald Trump likes to talk a big game in public, in private he is apparently very worried about how the Supreme Court may rule on some states’ decisions to keep him off the ballot this year.

On Friday’s edition of CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, anchor Kaitlan Collins (filling in for Wolf Blitzer) asked political analyst Maggie Haberman about how Trump was reacting to his latest round of legal issues after two states — Colorado and Maine — moved to remove him from the ballot in the general election in November. And while there’s something to be said for painting himself as a victim as a political strategy, Haberman indicated that Trump’s worries behind the scenes are very real:

Collins: [Trump] himself doesn’t seem to have said anything about this. How’s he reacted privately to being removed from the ballot, not just in Maine, but in other states as well?

Haberman: Privately, he’s saying similar things to what he’s saying publicly, Kaitlan, which is “this is election interference,” and making all the political arguments that we have gotten used to. This isn’t something that his folks are seeking out. It’s yet another set of court cases when they already have a pretty full load of those.

But some of his political advisers do think there is political advantage, at least in the short term. In Colorado, he’s still on the ballot. So even as that case is likely to go forward to the Supreme Court, he is on the ballot because the decision of the ruling there has been stayed. In Maine, we don’t quite know yet what’s going to happen.

They believe, generally speaking, he and his advisers, that they will have success at the Supreme Court. But he has also voiced some concern that a court that has, you know, he appointed three of the justices to the Supreme Court and gave the conservatives a supermajority. He is concerned that they are going to look as if they’re trying not to rule in his favor and might rule against him. We will see.

Watch the video above via CNN.

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