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The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe

Trump’s removal from Maine ballot ‘opens Pandora’s box’, DeSantis says

Ron DeSantis in Cedar Rapids, Iowa earlier this month.
Ron DeSantis in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, earlier this month. Photograph: Nick Rohlman/AP

The removal of Donald Trump from Maine’s presidential ballot “opens Pandora’s box”, one of his main rivals for the 2024 Republican nomination said, as reaction to the ruling.

The comment by the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, was among many from politicians on the right decrying the decision by Maine’s secretary of state, Shenna Bellows, to preclude Trump, which the former president’s campaign called the “attempted theft of an election”.

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