SAUNDERS: Backlash anyone? The partisan efforts to keep Trump off ballots

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : Both Maine and Colorado have kept Trump's name on their states' ballots so Trump can appeal.
34% : Trump, you see, only approves of bias that cuts his way.
30% : In December, the Colorado Supreme Court issued a 4-3 decision to exclude Trump from Colorado's primary ballot.
25% : It's complicated -- and so in the weeds that it feeds the impression that state and local officials who pursue Trump have a partisan agenda and a tendency to overreach.
25% : On Dec. 28, Bellows struck Trump from Maine's GOP primary ballot because, she wrote, he "engaged in insurrection as defined by Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment" and therefore does not qualify for the office of the presidency.
20% : "No criminal charges have been filed against Trump for insurrection in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, and hence there has been no trial -- which could make Trump, Prakash quipped, a "non-adjudicated insurrectionist.
18% : As four different prosecutors charged Trump with 91 crimes, Trump's polls numbers among GOP primary voters have skyrocketed.
14% : California Gov. Gavin Newsom reacted to the Colorado court's action with this statement: "There is no doubt that Donald Trump is a threat to our liberties and even to our democracy.

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