The US state of Maine announced, on Thursday, that Donald Trump will not appear on the ballot in the Republican Party primaries for the 2024 presidential elections, a week after a similar decision in Colorado, in connection with the attack on the Capitol building in 2021.
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“He is ineligible for the office of president” under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which excludes from any public liability persons who have engaged in acts of “rebellion,” Maine Democratic Secretary Sheena declared in an official document. Bellows is responsible for organizing the elections.
His campaign spokesman announced that the Maine decision will be appealed by Donald Trump in court, and may be the subject of a final appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Donald Trump quickly condemned the decision taken by, in his words, an “extremist leftist” and “an ardent supporter” of Joe Biden.
The Republican denounced through his campaign team: “We are witnessing live on air an attempt to steal the elections and deprive the American voter of his right to vote.”
On January 6, 2021, hundreds of Donald Trump's supporters violently stormed the Capitol, the sanctuary of American democracy, to attempt to prevent the certification of the victory of his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden.
Donald Trump and his staunchest supporters continue to doubt, without evidence, the results of the 2020 election.
The former president was indicted at the federal level on August 1, and then on August 14 by the state of Georgia, on charges of seeking to reverse the results of the 2020 election.
Several measures have been launched in various states across the country to obstruct the path of the front-runner in the Republican primary. If Michigan and Minnesota rejected it, the Colorado Supreme Court was the first, last week, to declare Donald Trump incompetent due to his actions during the attack on the Capitol building.
