The authorities of the American state of Maine announced yesterday Thursday (12/28) that the name of Donald Trump will not be on the ballot in the Republican Party's internal process to nominate the party's candidate for the 2024 presidential election. Just a week earlier, a similar decision was made in the state of Colorado.
The decisions in question that put a “block” on the candidacy of Donald Trump are connected to the attack of his followers on the federal Capitol on January 6, 2021.
“He is unfit to serve as president” given the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which bars anyone who has engaged in “treason” from being elected to any office, explained Maine Secretary of the Interior Shena Bellows, who is responsible for the organization of the elections, with its official document as reported by the Athens News Agency citing AFP and Reuters.
Maine's decision will be challenged in court by Donald Trump, his campaign immediately announced, and may be the subject of an eventual appeal to the US Supreme Court.
The tycoon – the undisputed favorite in the internal Republican process, according to polls – also personally condemned the decision made by the official of the “radical left” according to him, as a “warm supporter” of the Democratic president Joe Biden.
Mrs. Bellows is a Democrat.
“We are directly witnessing an attempt to steal the election and disenfranchise every American voter,” argued Donald Trump's campaign.
On January 6, 2021, hundreds of supporters of Donald Trump stormed the federal Capitol to try to block the formal ratification of the November 2020 election result, the victory of his Democratic opponent Joe Biden.
The Republican ex-president and his most passionate supporters continue to claim, without presenting any evidence, that he was the winner of the 2020 presidential election.
The historic indictment of the former president on August 1st at the federal level and then on August 14th in the state of Georgia for his alleged illegal actions to achieve the reversal of the 2020 election result opened legal debates about whether he has the right to be again running for the highest state office and led to appeals to the courts of several states.
Of the roughly fifteen such lawsuits filed in various states, two were dismissed in Minnesota and Michigan; the Colorado court became the first to rule that Donald Trump cannot run for office because of his actions.
Source: News Beast
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