Aaron Baggaley News Today

Some critics say the battles over the former president’s ballot status are turning him into a martyr and eroding faith in American elections.

As the top elections official in Washington state, Steve Hobbs says he is troubled by the threat former President Donald Trump poses to democracy and fears the prospect of his return to power. But he also worries that recent decisions in Maine and Colorado to bar Trump from presidential primary ballots there could backfire, further eroding Americans’ fraying faith in U.S. elections. “Removing him from the ballot would, on its face value, seem very anti-democratic,” said Hobb...

Officials, democracy experts, and voters are expressing misgivings about efforts to remove Donald Trump from ballots after he went to extraordinary lengths to overturn the 2020 election.

The New York Times reported on multiple Democratic Party officials and political experts who warned that state ballot bans against former President Trump could "backfire."

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