Former US President Donald Trump’s campaign headquarters described the ex-president’s exclusion from the primaries as an attempt to interfere with the elections and an attack on democracy. An American newspaper writes about this New York Times referring to Trump campaign spokesman Stephen Chung.
“Trump campaign spokesman Stephen Chung said Thursday evening that the rulings in both Maine and Colorado were ‘attempts at partisan election interference’ that constituted a ‘hostile attack on American democracy,’” the report said.
Before that, Republican Senator Susan Collins stated About whether Trump should be allowed to run in the primary in Maine.
Maine Secretary of State Shanna Bellows, a Democrat, removed Trump from her list of candidates in the primary, citing his role in the attack on the Capitol by his supporters in January 2021. According to him, the former US president violated Article 14 of the country’s constitution and cannot participate in the elections because he aided “insurrection or insurrection”. The politician’s lawyers had already objected to such a move. The Maine decision followed a similar decision in Colorado. At the same time, it was not possible to exclude Trump from the primaries in California, Michigan and Missouri.
Previously in California defective Get Trump out of the election.