‘Complex legal issues’ keep Trump on 2024 ballot in California despite ‘abhorrent’ conduct: Secretary of state

Former President Donald Trump greets supporters as he arrives at a commit to caucus rally, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023, in Waterloo, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Former President Donald Trump greets supporters as he arrives at a commit to caucus rally, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023, in Waterloo, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Donald Trump will appear on the 2024 presidential primary ballot in California — for now — after Secretary of State Shirley Weber rebuffed calls for the former president’s removal after the Colorado Supreme Court removed him for violating the insurrection clause of the U.S. Constitution.

Eleni Kounalakis, the Golden State’s lieutenant governor, asked Weber in a letter last week to “explore all possible legal avenues” to remove Trump from the ballot, underlining to the state secretary that the former president’s role in inciting an insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, flatly disqualified him from holding office. Kounalakis is running for Weber’s seat in 2026.

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