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Letters to the Editor: Newsom ignores the Constitution by keeping Trump on the ballot

Jan 01, 2024 View Original Article
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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    30% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -36% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : ("Newsom loves Trump?
38% : Then how can he and Gov. Gavin Newsom credibly argue that Trump belongs on the ballot?
36% : The proper democratic outcome is that Trump be excluded from the ballot, because that's what the 14th Amendment requires for those who swore an oath to defend the Constitution but engaged in insurrection.
29% : All eight of the Colorado judges (including the trial judge) who heard the case on ballot disqualification agreed that Trump is an insurrectionist; they just did not all agree on who could remove him from the ballot.
26% : To the editor: Nothing in Mark Z. Barabak's column relates to the question of whether Donald Trump has a right to run for president in 2024.
26% : The courts must protect our voters and public servants by barring Trump from the ballot and convicting him where necessary.To the editor: Congress could put an end to all the controversy over Trump's status to run for the presidency by simply taking a vote to make him eligible again.
22% : Democrats assert that Trump is a threat to democracy.
21% : Barabak takes a cheap shot at Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, who supports Trump's disqualification, as if the basis of her thinking can only be attributed to political opportunism rather than sound legal reasoning.
20% : To the editor: There is a history of wrong calls being made in holding Trump accountable for breaking the law.
5% : Keeping Trump on the ballot would be the wrong call by Newsom if there was even a sliver of a chance that Trump could win California.

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