Former President Donald Trump is decisively removed from the state’s presidential primary ballot by Maine’s Democratic secretary of state.
In the wake of the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to strike Trump from the ballot, Shenna Bellows has taken a significant step. The 14th Amendment’s Section 3 served as the foundation for the decision.
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Trump’s eligibility is being decided upon after the U.S. The Supreme Court decides whether his participation in the Civil War-era uprising disqualifies him from holding office.
The Trump campaign plans to file a state court appeal in Maine against Bellows’ decision. The nation’s highest court will probably have the last say over whether Trump’s name appears on the ballot in Maine and other states.
Bellows claims that because Trump broke Section 3 by participating in the January 6, 2021, Capitol incursion, he is no longer eligible to hold public office.
Residents of Maine, including a diverse group of former lawmakers, voiced concerns, and a decision was made to address Trump’s inclusion on the ballot.
“This is not a hasty decision,” Bellows stated in her 34-page ruling.
“I am mindful that no Secretary of State has ever deprived a presidential candidate of ballot access based on Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. I am also mindful, however, that no presidential candidate has ever before engaged in insurrection.”
The Trump team quickly attacked the decision.
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Campaign spokesman Steven Cheung issued a statement saying, “We are witnessing, in real-time, the attempted theft of an election and the disenfranchisement of the American voter.”
Cheung called Bellows a “hyper-partisan Biden-supporting Democrat” and a “virulent leftist,” according to the New York Post.
Maine has the unusual distinction of being one of the two states that divides its votes, despite having only four electoral votes.
If Trump decides to run for the GOP nomination in the general election, eliminating him from the Maine ballot could have major ramifications in what is anticipated to be a fiercely contested race.
Colorado was one of the states that Donald Trump lost by a wide 13 percentage points in the 2020 election. But if he wins the Republican presidential nomination once more, he might not spend a lot of time campaigning in the state come November.
