The challengers who argued Trump should be barred from the ballot have asked that his request be rejected because additional delays will create voter confusion.
Donald Trump
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Let the ballot eligibility process run its course
Clamor over Secretary Bellows’ decision – from all sides – does more harm than good.
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Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
The Maine Millennial: Republican hypocrisy is exhausting
The threats to Secretary of State Shenna Bellows are an overreaction – at best.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
Biden warns against Trump reelection after Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a day ‘we nearly lost America’
The speech, President Biden’s first political event of the election year, was intended to clarify the expected choice for voters this fall.
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
Liz Cheney urges New Hampshire primary voters to take a stand against Republican ‘cowardice’
Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, had been a leading Republican voice for years.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
U.S. Supreme Court will decide if Trump can be kept off 2024 presidential ballots
The court will be considering for the first time the meaning and reach of a provision of the 14th Amendment barring some people who ‘engaged in insurrection’ from holding public office.
Posted inNation & World, New England, Politics
Massachusetts voters become latest to try and keep Trump off ballot over Jan. 6 attack
The State Ballot Commission must rule on the challenge, which was filed late Thursday, by Jan. 29.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Politics
Republican lawmaker files resolution to impeach Bellows for disqualifying Trump
While impeachment of the secretary of state is highly unlikely, some Republican lawmakers said her decision to keep former president Donald Trump off Maine’s primary ballot has energized Republican voters.
Posted inElections, Local & State, Politics
Trump appeals Maine secretary of state’s decision to bar him from primary ballot
The former president said in a court filing Tuesday that Secretary of State Shenna Bellows doesn’t have the authority to remove him from the ballot and ‘acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner.’
Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State, Maine Crime, News, Politics
Maine secretary of state’s Manchester home targeted in ‘swatting call’
Shenna Bellows says she and co-workers have endured threats since her Thursday ruling banning former President Trump from Maine primary ballot.