Shortly after Maine’s Democratic secretary of state removed Trump from Maine’s 2024 presidential ballot, the Trump campaign issued a statement slamming Maine’s Secretary of State.
In the statement, Trump’s campaign spokesperson, Steven Cheung, said, “We are witnessing, in real-time, the attempted theft of an election and the disenfranchisement of the American voter.”
Cheung continued, ‘The Maine Secretary of State is a former ACLU attorney, a virulent leftist and a hyper-partisan Biden-supporting Democrat who has decided to interfere in the presidential election on behalf of Crooked Joe Biden.’
Read the full statement below:
Trump Campaign Statement on Maine Secretary of State Ruling pic.twitter.com/0ZmNeKDTpR
— Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) December 29, 2023
Here’s what AP reported:
Maine’s Democratic secretary of state on Thursday removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot under the Constitution’s insurrection clause, becoming the first election official to take action unilaterally as the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to decide whether Trump remains eligible to return to the White House.
The decision by Secretary of State Shenna Bellows follows a ruling earlier this month by the Colorado Supreme Court that booted Trump from the ballot there under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. That decision has been stayed until the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether Trump is barred by the Civil War-era provision, which prohibits those who “engaged in insurrection” from holding office.
The Trump campaign said it would appeal Bellows’ decision to Maine’s state courts, and Bellows suspended her ruling until that court system rules on the case. In the end, it is likely that the nation’s highest court will have the final say on whether Trump appears on the ballot in Maine and in the other states.
Bellows found that Trump could no longer run for his prior job because his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol violated Section 3, which bans from office those who “engaged in insurrection.”
Trump campaign slams his removal from Maine ballot https://t.co/JnqFJjdvoU pic.twitter.com/jliz8UfKPt
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) December 29, 2023
Here’s what The Daily Mail reported:
But Trump’s campaign has released a statement that excoriates the secretary of state’s decision.
‘The Maine Secretary of State is a former ACLU attorney, a virulent leftist and a hyper-partisan Biden-supporting Democrat who has decided to interfere in the presidential election on behalf of Crooked Joe Biden,’ Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said.
‘We are witnessing, in real-time, the attempted theft of an election and the disenfranchisement of the American voter,’ he added.
‘Democrats in blue states are recklessly and unconstitutionally suspending the civil rights of the American voters by attempting to summarily remove President Trump’s name from the ballot.
‘Make no mistake, these partisan election interference efforts are a hostile assault on American democracy. Biden and the Democrats simply do not trust the American voter in a free and fair election and are now relying on the force of government institutions to protect their grip on power.
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