Maine Republican who voted for Trump defends blocking him from ballot

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : "On January 6, 2021, a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., as Congress was attempting to certify Biden's 2020 win.
36% : Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges and has claimed that the case is politically motivated.
33% : "And in this particular case, thank you, Shenna, thank you, Secretary of State, you made the decision that Donald Trump does not meet those qualifications because, according to the 14th Amendment, Section 3, he was involved in inciting an insurrection against this country and egged those people on to do what they wanted to do to the Capitol.
30% : The Justice Department indicted Trump in August on four federal felony counts: conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding; and conspiracy against rights, all regarding his actions surrounding the Capitol riot.
27% : On Thursday, Maine's Democratic secretary of state, Shenna Bellows, ruled that Trump was barred from the state primaries because the 2024 GOP presidential front-runner engaged in an insurrection regarding his activities surrounding the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, she said.
24% : Tom Saviello, a Republican former Maine state senator who said he voted for former President Donald Trump, defended the decision to block Trump from the primary ballot.
19% : The riot erupted following unsubstantiated claims made by Trump that the election was stolen from him via widespread voter fraud.
16% : Saviello, who served in the state Senate from 2010-2018 and was one of several former lawmakers who challenged Trump's position on the ballot, told CNN's Eric Hill on Friday that Trump simply did not meet the qualifications to be on the ballot.
14% : Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung has said that a legal objection will be "quickly" filed against Bellows' ruling, adding that the decision to kick Trump off the ballot was a "hostile assault on American democracy.

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