Maine’s top election official removes Trump from 2024 primary ballot

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

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3.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Maine’s top election official has removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 primary ballot, in a surprising decision based on the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban.” Secretary of State Shenna Bellows talks about this decision and how she came to it. And Michael Eric Dyson, distinguished professor of African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University and co-author of “Unequal: A Story of America" talks about Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley's comments on slavery and the Civil War. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:59.0	All right, the breaking news and it is big. Just a week after Colorado did it, Maine becomes the second state to bar Donald Trump from its Republican
1:05.2	primary ballot. John Berman here in for Anderson in the decision from Maine's
1:09.4	Secretary of State cannot be any planer. Quoting now, he is not qualified to hold the office of the president
1:16.6	under section 3 of the 14th amendment, period.
1:20.3	She joins us momentarily.
1:22.1	This comes on a day in which the former president was temporarily back on Colorado's ballot
1:26.4	pending a Supreme Court decision.
1:28.0	Cianna's Caitlin Polance joins us now with this breaking news out of Maine.
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