Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows says Trump shouldn’t be allowed to run due his assist of rebellion.
Former United States President Donald Trump has been kicked off the poll for the 2024 presidential main in Maine after a state official decided the Republican frontrunner is ineligible attributable to his assist of rebellion.
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, introduced the choice to take away Trump from the poll on Thursday, citing a clause within the US Structure that bars those that have “engaged in rebellion or rise up” from holding public workplace.
Bellows mentioned that Trump needs to be thought of ineligible for run because the storming of the US Capitol on January 6 had “occurred on the behest of, and with the data and assist of” the previous president.
“I don’t attain this conclusion flippantly,” mentioned Bellows. “Democracy is sacred … I’m aware that no Secretary of State has ever disadvantaged a presidential candidate of poll entry based mostly on Part Three of the Fourteenth Modification. I’m additionally aware, nonetheless, that no presidential candidate has ever earlier than engaged in rebellion.”
Trump is going through legal prices over his alleged position in attempting to overturn the end result of the 2020 election however the businessman-turned-politican has not been charged with rebellion associated to January 6.
The Trump marketing campaign mentioned shortly after the announcement that it could problem the choice in courtroom.
Regardless of being one of many least populous US states with simply 4 votes within the electoral faculty, Maine may play an outsized position within the 2024 election.
Trump carried the state’s rural 2nd district to safe one electoral vote in each 2016 and 2020.