California Secretary of State Shirley Weber on Thursday included former President Donald Trump’s title on the listing of candidates licensed to run within the state’s presidential major, bucking a number of different blue states which might be looking for to bar him from operating.
Weber’s launch of the listing of candidates Thursday night means Trump will seem on the poll in California’s presidential major on March 5. Weber’s choice got here the identical day that Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows declared him ineligible to run for president due to his function within the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on Congress, and every week after Colorado’s Supreme Court docket reached the identical conclusion.
A number of elected Democrats had tried to take away him from the California poll, together with Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, who
despatched Weber a letter final week urging her to “discover each authorized choice” to maintain him off. Weber had pushed again on Kounalakis’ letter, telling her that “it’s extra important than ever to safeguard elections in a method that transcends political divisions.”
