California will keep Trump on state election ballots

[Anti Federalist]

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Democrat-Controlled California Keeps Donald Trump on the 2024 Ballot

https://www.breitbart.com/2024-elec...fornia-keeps-donald-trump-on-the-2024-ballot/

WENDELL HUSEBØ 29 Dec 2023

The state of California kept former President Donald Trump on the 2024 ballot on Thursday.

California’s decision defies California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis’s request to “explore every legal option” to remove Trump from the ballot following the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling.

California Democrat Secretary of State Dr. Shirley N. Weber published the list of eligible candidates Thursday.
The decision came just after Maine Democrat Secretary of State Shenna Bellows decided Trump was ineligible for the state’s ballot.
Weber previously opposed Colorado’s ruling on December 22, saying, “It is more critical than ever to safeguard elections in a way that transcends political divisions.”

“Removing a candidate from the ballot under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment is not something my office takes lightly and is not as simple as the requirement that a person be at least 35 years old to be president,” she added.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) also opposed the action by Democrats to prevent voters from deciding elections: “There is no doubt that Donald Trump is a threat to our liberties and even to our democracy. But in California, we defeat candidates at the polls. Everything else is a political distraction,” Politico reported.

Several other states faced legal action to prevent voters from deciding elections by keeping Trump off the ballot:

Oregon (case pending)
Michigan and Minnesota (Trump kept on the ballots)
Colorado (ruling stayed)
Maine
More information on Maine and Colorado’s rulings is here.

 

[mtr1979]

Does it even matter if Trump is on the ballot? California hasn't been a Red State since 1988.

 

[Anti Globalist]

As if Trump would be able to flip California red. I won't be surprised if California ends up being a blue state my whole life.

 

[acptulsa]

Leave it to Breitbart to not even mention whether they're talking about the primary, the general or both.

 

[sparebulb]

Kalifornia is a shining example of pubic skool taught democracy.

In word and deed.

 

[WarriorLiberty]

Does it even matter if Trump is on the ballot? California hasn't been a Red State since 1988.

At least they had being voting "supposedly" for the same dictator/one party system for the past 20 years.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Leave it to Breitbart to not even mention whether they're talking about the primary, the general or both.

The primary:

https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/statewide-elections/2024-primary/cert-list-candidates.pdf

 

[acptulsa]

The primary:

Those two "parties" become more and more ingrained into the state statutes. They ought to drop the pretense and go back to "smoke-filled rooms". Make like the other parties and just just present us a candidate already. That's what they used to do, just like the LP still does. I'm tired of paying for their free publicity.

 

[acptulsa]