Posted on 12/28/2023 4:04:51 PM PST by CaptainK
PORTLAND, Maine — 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 in a decision that has potential Electoral College consequences.
While Maine has just four electoral votes, it’s one of two states to split them. Trump won one of Maine’s electors in 2020, so having him off the ballot there should he emerge as the Republican general election candidate could have outsized implications in a race that is expected to be narrowly decided.
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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.” Bellows made the ruling after some state residents, including a bipartisan group of former lawmakers, challenged Trump’s position on the ballot.
How can they do this? It is getting even more disgusting on the Left.There must be a few Dems that can see this is wrong.
Time once again to sink the Maine. /s
You Maine folks happy the democrat in office decided you can’t vote for who you want to? Just like the USSR/CCP politburo?
So you’re “free”, but not so free you can chose your leaders, right?
Trump was never going to be allowed to win. Even few elected Republicans are denouncing these actions.
The only good thing in Maine is the Lobstermen and the Maine CabinMasters
Every vote must count...except
Bush Central, Kennebunkport is there.
There is some honest reporting, right there. (/sarc)
Trump was never going to be allowed to win. Even few elected Republicans are denouncing these actions.
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It seems Republican politicians aren’t worried about their asses getting booted off of the ballots, nor do they care about what is happening to Trump.
However, they should be worried because the leftists want to kick about 150 to 200 Republicans out of Congress for supporting the ‘insurrection.’
It will be overturned this was done right after Colorado put him back on the ballot today… so they are accusing trump of trying to overturn himself because he was president at the time so he was trying to overturn himself good lord are some people beyond retarded
They do it because they know they can and they know the GOP is a bunch of weak, feckless pu$$ies that will do NOTHING to combat this.
IMO, the fresh daily seafood priced only slightly more than potatoes - and Old Orchard Beach, wide and flat and straight as an arrow, great for jogging.
“”Her decision came one day after Trump’s lawyers asked her to disqualify herself over tweets that they said showed bias. She called the U.S. Capitol attack an “insurrection” and bemoaned that Trump wasn’t convicted by the U.S. Senate after being impeached by the U.S. House.””
“bemoaned that Trump wasn’t convicted”
I suppose that was not relevant to her baseless attack on the former President.
Yet another insufferable prog commie.
PDJT was not arrested, there was no trial, no conviction, no nothing.
But her sorry butt “deemed” PDJT guilty.
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She sounds nuttier than AOC and that’s a hard thing to do.
As a result of this illegal action, Maine will be stripped of all the states electoral votes.
National boycott Maine lobster!
assclown face of tyranny
They are arrogantly pushing the limits to get Trump. They live in a bubble of woke types all in agreement keeping him off is like getting a sex offender out of the neighborhood or something. All in agreement against him.
They will have to be shown what rage they are igniting within the other side’s adherents. So far nothing much.
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