Many leading California Democrats have been clamoring to jettison Donald Trump from the state’s election ballot, but Gov. Everything else is a political distraction.”Newsom’s terse statement on Friday runs counter to the position taken by Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis and nine state lawmakers, who have pushed to remove the former president from the California ballot. If the high court agrees to take the case, election law experts said its decision would probably affect primary and general election ballots across the country. But several of the state’s top Democrats have said that Trump should be disqualified from the March primary ballot.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 23, 2023 22:40 UTC