Former President Donald Trump speaks at a marketing campaign rally on Dec. 16 in Durham, N.H.

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Former President Donald Trump speaks at a marketing campaign rally on Dec. 16 in Durham, N.H.

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Former President Donald Trump will not be on Maine’s main poll after the state’s secretary of state dominated he is not certified based mostly on his makes an attempt to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 presidential election.

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, launched a 34-page ruling on Thursday night stating that Trump’s main election petition is “invalid.”

“I find the declaration on his candidate form is false because he is not qualified to hold off of the President under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment [of the U.S. Constitution],” Bellows wrote in her choice.

Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, generally referred to as the rebel clause, declares that nobody who has engaged in an rebel or revolt towards the United States can maintain state or federal workplace. It was initially written post-Civil War to forestall Confederate rebels from holding elected workplace.

The Trump marketing campaign issued a swift response to the ruling, calling Bellows “a virulent leftist and a hyper-partisan Biden-supporting Democrat who has decided to interfere in the presidential election on behalf of Crooked Joe Biden.”

The marketing campaign assertion issued by spokesperson Steven Cheung, went on to stoke fears about election interference, echoing Trump’s false claims concerning the 2020 election that he misplaced.

“We are witnessing, in real-time, the attempted theft of an election and the disenfranchisement of the American voter,” Cheung mentioned. “Make no mistake, these partisan election interference efforts are a hostile assault on American democracy.”

“We will quickly file a legal objection in state court to prevent this atrocious decision in Maine from taking effect,” he added.

This ruling is the third state choice up to now week declaring whether or not or not Trump can seem on a main poll. Colorado’s Supreme Court mentioned he couldn’t, citing the identical part of the Constitution. Michigan’s Supreme Court dominated that he can seem on that state’s main poll as a result of the court docket there believes it can’t rule on the deserves on Trump’s candidacy except and till he’s the Republican Party’s nominee.

Trump is anticipated to problem Colorado’s ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court.