Could January 6th Decide the Next Election?
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🗓️ 2 January 2024
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Summary
Trump is appealing the Maine decision, and is expected to appeal the Colorado decision.
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a democrat, told All Things Considered that Trump's actions on January 6th are what drove her decision to remove him from the ballot.
NPR's Juana Summers, talks to Senior Editor and Correspondent Domenico Montanaro about the decisions to remove Trump, whether they'll stand, and what these challenges could mean for the outcome of the Presidential election.
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| 0:00.0 | What I saw was just a war scene. |
| 0:10.0 | Capital police. What I saw was just a war scene. |
| 0:14.0 | Capital police officer Caroline Edwards was on the front lines during the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. |
| 0:22.0 | There were officers on the on January 6th, 2021. |
| 0:22.6 | There were officers on the ground, you know, |
| 0:26.8 | they were bleeding, they were throwing up. |
| 0:30.5 | I mean, I saw friends with blood all over their faces. I was slipping in people's blood. |
| 0:36.3 | She testified about the experience before the Select Committee on January 6th in June 2022. At the time of the attack on the Capitol, Edwards had been on the |
| 0:45.9 | Capitol Police Force for four years, but nothing in that time could have prepared |
| 0:51.4 | her for what happened on January 6th. |
| 0:54.0 | I've never in my wildest dreams did I think that as a police officer, as a law |
| 1:00.0 | enforcement officer, I would find myself in the middle of a battle. |
| 1:05.0 | You know, I'm trained to detain, you know, a couple of subjects and handle, you but I'm not combat trained and that day it was just |
| 1:20.8 | hours of hand-to-hand combat. |
| 1:25.0 | Edwards sustained a traumatic brain injury in the fighting that day. |
| 1:30.0 | She told the New York Times that she suffered for months after with slow and labored speech, |
| 1:35.5 | fainting spells, and so much vertigo she could barely walk. |
| 1:49.0 | Years after the attack, the country is still trying to come to terms with the legacy of January 6th. More than 1,000 people have now faced criminal charges related to the day. |
| 1:54.0 | One of those is former President Donald Trump, and those charges are jeopardizing his |
| 1:58.7 | run for the White House. |
| 2:01.1 | Consider this, Trump's involvement in the January 6th insurrection has led to him being kicked off the |
| 2:06.4 | 2024 primary ballots in Maine and Colorado, and several other states are considering challenges to him appearing on their primary ballots. |
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