California Governor Gavin Newsom has strongly come out against efforts by fellow California Democrats to remove former President Donald Trump from the 2024 California primary ballot. The California primary is scheduled for “Super Tuesday” on March 5.
….[I]n a Friday afternoon statement, Newsom telegraphed to his fellow California Democrats not to get ahead of the U.S. Supreme Court, which will almost certainly be the final arbiter of that decision.
“There is no doubt that Donald Trump is a threat to our liberties and even to our democracy,” Newsom said, “but in California, we defeat candidates at the polls. Everything else is a political distraction.”
Newsom’s comment comes after a December 20 letter from California Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, following the Colorado Supreme Court decision to remove Trump from…
