California Lets Former President Donald Trump Stay on Primary Ballot
Jose Nino
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On December 28, 2024, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber allowed former President Donald Trump’s name to appear on California’s primary ballot, a move that was surprising given how California is a deeply blue, anti-Trump state.
Weber published the certified list of candidates for the March 5 election that will feature Trump.
“The following list contains the name of each presidential candidate who is entitled to be voted for in the Democratic, Republican, American Independent, Libertarian, Green, and Peace and Freedom parties’ Presidential Primary Elections to be held on Tuesday, March 5, 2024,” Weber declared in a written statement.
The announcement came a few hours after Maine became the second state following Colorado to take Trump off a presidential primary ballot.
Several California leaders, including Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis, had called on Weber to kick Trump off the ballot under the Constitution’s 14th Amendment. Governor Gavin Newsom opposed going through with this move, ultimately believing that the voters should decide Trump’s electoral prospects.
The issue of Trump’s primary ballot status is expected to be settled by the US Supreme Court after the Colorado Republican Party appealed to the highest court in the land.
In the US, politics has gone beyond the realm of political debate and has turned more into an existential political struggle where the cultural Left is trying to destroy the Right by using every underhanded and brute force trick in the book.
The Right must be ready to fight fire with fire in this circumstance.
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