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Cameron Joseph and agencies

Why did Maine and Colorado disqualify Trump from their ballots?

Donald Trump is introduced to the crowd during a rally on 17 December 2023 in Reno, Nevada.
Donald Trump is introduced to the crowd during a rally on 17 December 2023 in Reno, Nevada. Photograph: Godofredo A Vásquez/AP

Officials in Colorado and Maine have ruled that Donald Trump is ineligible to run for the White House again, citing his role in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.

In Colorado, the state supreme court ruled 4-3 earlier this month to take the former president off the state’s Republican presidential primary ballot; on Thursday, Maine’s secretary of state kicked him off the ballot there too.

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