Donald Trump Booted From Maine’s 2024 Presidential Primary Ballot

The Secretary of State of Maine has removed Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential primary ballot, citing an interpretation of the 14th amendment that would bar insurrectionists from holding office.

Maine joins Colorado as the second state in the U.S. to block Trump’s presidential bid after Colorado’s Supreme Court ejected him earlier this month after ruling that the former president engaged in insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.

“I do not reach this conclusion lightly. Democracy is sacred, and the highest court of this
State has repeatedly recognized that ‘no right is more precious in a free country than that of having a voice in the election of those who make the laws under which, as good citizens, we must live,’” Maine’s Secretary of State Shenna Bellows wrote in her decision published Thursday.

“The events of January 6, 2021 were unprecedented and tragic. They were an attack not
only upon the Capitol and government officials, but also an attack on the rule of law,” she continued.
“The evidence here demonstrates that they occurred at the behest of, and with the knowledge and support of, the outgoing President. The U.S. Constitution does not tolerate an assault on the foundations of our government, and Section 336 requires me to act in response.”

In a lengthy statement, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said the campaign would file a legal objection over the claim and called Bellows “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.”

“We are witnessing, in real-time, the attempted theft of an election and the disenfranchisement of the American voter,” Cheung said. “Democrats in blue states are recklessly and un-Constitutionally 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.”

The Secretary of State of Maine has removed Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential primary ballot, citing an interpretation of the 14th amendment that would bar insurrectionists from holding office.

Maine joins Colorado as the second state in the U.S. to block Trump’s presidential bid after Colorado’s Supreme Court ejected him earlier this month after ruling that the former president engaged in insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.

“I do not reach this conclusion lightly. Democracy is sacred, and the highest court of this
State has repeatedly recognized that ‘no right is more precious in a free country than that of having a voice in the election of those who make the laws under which, as good citizens, we must live,’” Maine’s Secretary of State Shenna Bellows wrote in her decision published Thursday.

“The events of January 6, 2021 were unprecedented and tragic. They were an attack not
only upon the Capitol and government officials, but also an attack on the rule of law,” she continued.
“The evidence here demonstrates that they occurred at the behest of, and with the knowledge and support of, the outgoing President. The U.S. Constitution does not tolerate an assault on the foundations of our government, and Section 336 requires me to act in response.”

In a lengthy statement, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said the campaign would file a legal objection over the claim and called Bellows “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.”

“We are witnessing, in real-time, the attempted theft of an election and the disenfranchisement of the American voter,” Cheung said. “Democrats in blue states are recklessly and un-Constitutionally 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.”