Efforts to kick former President Donald Trump off the ballot in GOP presidential primaries next year are being met with little or no support so far among top state election officials — whether Republican or Democrat.
Anti-Trump lawmakers and activists have cited the 14th Amendment, which says that a person who has “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the Constitution” can not hold public office in the United States, as justification for keeping the former president off the ballot.
Mr. Scanlan’s office was flooded with phone calls last month over the issue after conservative talk show host Charlie Kirk told listeners of his show that Mr. Trump would be kept off the primary ballot in the New England state. Michigan’s Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson wrote in an opinion piece published in The Washington Post Wednesday that the view that secretaries of state should keep Mr. Trump off the ballot is “misguided.”
“In Michigan, unless a court rules otherwise, Donald Trump will be on the ballot for our Republican presidential primary on Feb. 27, 2024.”
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