Bellows’ ruling states that Trump’s “primary request” is invalid under the 14th Amendment.

Shenna Bellows, Maine’s secretary of state, made an unexpected announcement on Thursday. She released a 34 page ruling that Donald Trump was ineligible for the ballot.

Bellows’ ruling states that Trump’s primary petition is invalid under the Fourteenth Amendment insurrectionists ban.

Steven Cheug, spokesman for the Trump campaign, blasted Bellows in a statement made to The New York Post. He called her a virulent leftist and a hyper-partisan Biden supporting Democrat.

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He said the campaign “would quickly file a legal opposition in state court to stop this atrocious Maine decision from taking effect.”

Vivek Ramaswamy, a presidential candidate posted on X: “This is how an *actual* danger to democracy looks.”

Ramaswamy said, “I am still standing by my previous pledge to *withdraw* if any state removes Trump’s name from its ballot.”

“I urge DeSantis Christie and Haley do the same, or they will be tacitly supporting this illegal and brazen interference in the GOP primaries. “This cancer in American politics doesn’t just affect the Democrats,” he added.

Bellows said in her decision that she had “carefully considered arguments presented by both parties” and took “extremely serious” the role of the judge.

In the decision and as part of Bellows’ reasoning, it was stated that “the application of Section Three (of the Fourteenth Amendment) does not depend on whether a candidate for office has been convicted or not.”

Bellows said that her sole obligation was to “assess [the] record in front of [her] and determine based on preponderance evidence” whether Trump had engaged in insurrection.

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that Trump’s name should be removed from the ballot. Other states have also taken similar steps.