Secretary of State bars Trump from ballot in Maine

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🗓️ 29 December 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Maine becomes the second state to bar Donald Trump from the ballot. Plus, Rep. Lauren Boebert switches her House district for the 2024 election. And Audrino Kayipa shares how she’s been able to achieve her dreams thanks to the K.I.N.D. Fund. David Blight, Eugene Robinson, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, Barbara McQuade, Glenn Kirschner and Adam Frisch join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	It is time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening, Lawrence.
0:05.0	Good evening, Jonathan. We have Maine's Secretary of State joining us tonight after she made history today
0:11.0	by saying Donald Trump cannot be on the presidential ballot there.
0:15.2	And Jonathan, it seems like a really fast 24 hours ago that you and I were having our first
0:22.0	discussion of what Nicky Haley said when asked about
0:26.0	the cause of the Civil War.
0:28.3	It's really exploded since then.
0:31.4	I mean, it is truly incredible that she, the governor of South Carolina, cannot even talk about
0:39.7	this issue without tying herself up in knots. It's truly astounding.
0:44.0	Yeah, we have Yale Professor David Blight with us tonight who was originally
0:51.0	booked of course as a history professor he's an expert on what caused
0:55.6	the Civil War as are many high school students Gene Robinson's with us too he's
1:00.6	also an expert on what caused the Civil War, but we'll also get a chest to talk to Professor
1:06.1	Blight about the 14th Amendment, which of course is what is being used to knock Donald
1:10.8	Trump off the ballots. He's very much an expert on that.
1:14.4	And so much to cover.
1:17.6	Hey, Lawrence, if you do me a favor,
1:19.6	could you ask Professor Blight what he what he thinks Frederick Douglas would make of what
1:26.7	Nicky Haley said. You haven't wrote his monster biography of Douglas it, it's epic.
1:34.1	All right, there you go.
1:35.1	There's question one for Professor Blight, right there,
1:37.4	just wrote it down.
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