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MAINE SECRETARY OF STATE GETS DESTROYED AFTER REMOVING TRUMP FROM THE BALLOT

By Bonchie | 8:50 PM on December 28, 2023
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As RedState reported, another state has "removed" Donald Trump from the ballot
following accusations of violating the 14th Amendment. I put the word "removed"
in quotes for a reason, which I'll get to in a moment, but in the aftermath, the
Maine Secretary of State behind the move is getting destroyed. 

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I'll start with a more official-sounding condemnation from Sen. Thom Tillis
before we get to the less kind responses.



The full post reads:

> Maine’s Democrat Secretary of State just removed Trump from the ballot. This
> is an egregious abuse of power and why I will be introducing the
> Constitutional Election Integrity Act as soon as Congress returns to session
> to stop these partisan officials and ensure any constitutional challenge is
> only decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Tillis is correct in saying it's an egregious abuse of power. It's so broad and
so arbitrary on the legal merits that if allowed to stand, Republican officials
would have more than enough cause to remove Joe Biden from the ballot in their
states. Again, that's a clue on what's really going on here. 

Naturally, Shenna Bellows, the secretary of state in question, had previously
stumped for "voting rights" and demanded that others be allowed to vote for who
they want. 


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You see, voting is a "fundamental right," according to Bellows, unless we are
talking about the right to vote for a presidential candidate she holds an
inherent hatred of. In that case, it's fine to spit on the democratic process
and strip that person from the ballot based on nothing more than feelings and
twisted legal reasoning. 

Once again, an AWFL has decided to play authoritarian for the "greater good."
They know best, and you don't dare suggest otherwise, you fascist. 



So why did I put "removed" in quotes at the beginning of this piece? I did so
because it's obvious what's actually going on here. Just as with the Colorado
Supreme Court ruling removing Trump from the ballot, Bellows stayed her own
decision (meaning it doesn't go into effect), giving the final say to the U.S.
Supreme Court. 

What does that tell you? It tells you that none of these cheap stunts are meant
to succeed technically. It's essentially a foregone conclusion that the U.S.
Supreme Court will not only keep the stays in place, but they will ultimately
rule against the states trying to use the 14th Amendment without any due process
to bar Trump from the ballot. 

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In the end, Bellows doesn't believe she'll win. She just wants her name in
lights while setting up the U.S. Supreme Court to play the bad guy for half the
country. It's a tactic the Biden administration has used over and over, enacting
illegal measures with an eye on passing the buck to the judiciary so they can
cry foul when they lose. 

The same thing will happen here. The nation's high court will eventually make a
common sense ruling to reinstate Trump on these ballots, and then the far left
will call them tyrants who want to destroy democracy. What does that accomplish?
It helps juice Democrat turnout. It's all so predictable, and it's a blatant
abuse of the system to influence an election.


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