Donald Trump will stay on California GOP presidential primary ballot

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Polls show Trump holds a wide lead in the primary, with a November UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies survey showing him having support from 57% of likely Republican voters in the state.
44% : The decision from the office of Secretary of State Shirley N. Weber, a Democrat who oversees elections in the state, comes after some officials -- including Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis -- had called on Weber to disqualify Trump from the ballot.
43% : Gen. Rob Bonta, asking his office to ask the court whether Trump can appear on the primary ballot.
40% : "The Colorado Supreme Court decided in a 4-3 ruling to disqualify Trump from the state's primary ballot.
32% : But Gov. Gavin Newsom last week threw cold water on any push to disqualify Trump from the ballot.
31% : Earlier Thursday, Maine's secretary of state removed Trump from the state's primary ballot, citing the 14th Amendment, which bans from office those who "engaged in insurrection.
30% : In a Dec. 20 letter, Kounalakis urged Weber to "explore every legal option" to remove Trump from the ballot.
29% : "In her Dec. 22 response to Kounalakis, Weber said removing Trump from the ballot under the 14th Amendment "is not something my office takes lightly and is not as simple as the requirement that a person be at least 35 years old to be president.
18% : "There is no doubt that Donald Trump is a threat to our liberties and even to our democracy," Newsom said in a statement Friday.

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