Wisconsin election officials have declined to review a complaint attempting to remove former President Trump from the state’s primary ballot, citing the 14th Amendment. Madison, Wis., brewery owner…
So, Colorado and Maine have done it, Wisconsin won’t. Where’s everyone else at?
California is also not looking likely to remove Trump from the ballot as the Secretary of State won’t pursue it.
My feelings on the matter are generally that I’m not sure leaving him off the primary ballots before he’s convicted is the most responsible course of action.
One of the biggest arguments that his supporters lean on is that he’s being treated unfairly. Now, I disagree with them and believe that having gone through a Grand Jury is sufficient to move to indict. But many people don’t actually know what a Grand jury is. My dad, for example, thought the Grand Jury in this case was just a collection of left leaning lawyers looking to hack at Trump’s credibility rather than a random group of people called to form a panel for prosecutors to show evidence to prior to indictment.
If we assume that most of his supporters have a similar understanding to my dad, then the only thing we are doing is boosting their feelings that Trump is being treated unfairly by moving to remove him from primary ballots before his trials resolve.
We should instead be trying to focus energy as a country to move the relevant trials forward to ensure they resolve before the general election and remove him from that ballot if he’s convicted. Then we should also allow Republicans the ability to replace him on the ballot if necessary.
This isn’t really news. Some dude filed a complaint and they denied it because they’re not the people the complaint should go to.
