In the wake of Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows making the unilateral decision to remove former president Donald Trump from the Republican primary ballot, politicians and legal scholars began to weigh in.

Previously, the Trump team had declared that Bellows should recuse herself from any such decision.

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The Trump campaign itself has now weighed in, releasing a statement after the Thursday decision.

"The Maine Secretary of State is a former ACLU attorney, a virulent leftist and a hyper-partisan Biden-supporting Democrat who has decided to interfere in the presidential election on behalf of Crooked Joe Biden," said Steven Cheung, the Trump Campaign Spokesman. "We are witnessing, in real-time, the attempted theft of an election and the disenfranchisement of the American voter. Democrats in blue states are recklessly and un-Constitutionally suspending the civil rights of the American voters by attempting to summarily remove President Trump’s name from the ballot."

The decision comes in the wake of the Colorado Supreme Court's 4-3 decision to bar Trump from the ballot in that state, and other Democrats and activist groups are using that decision to justify going after Trump in the remaining states.

Their goal, they've made clear, is to prevent Trump from being eligible for the White House.

But it's likely that the Supreme Court will weigh in on the matter before votes are cast in either state. The Colorado decision is undoubtedly going to be under heavy scrutiny. In the meantime, Michigan courts have rejected a 14th Amendment challenge to Trump's ballot eligibility, and California's Secretary of State has pushed back against calls for the state to do what Maine has done.

You can read the Trump campaign's full statement below.

Trump Campaign Full Statement

"The Maine Secretary of State is a former ACLU attorney, a virulent leftist and a hyper-partisan Biden-supporting Democrat who has decided to interfere in the presidential election on behalf of Crooked Joe Biden. We are witnessing, in real-time, the attempted theft of an election and the disenfranchisement of the American voter. Democrats in blue states are recklessly and un-Constitutionally suspending the civil rights of the American voters by attempting to summarily remove President Trump’s name from the ballot. Make no mistake, these partisan election interference efforts are a hostile assault on American democracy. Biden and the Democrats simply do not trust the American voter in a free and fair election and are now relying on the force of government institutions to protect their grip on power. 

State courts in Michigan and Minnesota have rejected these bad-faith, bogus 14th Amendment ballot challenges, as have federal courts in New Hampshire, Arizona, Florida, Rhode Island, West Virginia, along with ten other federal jurisdictions. 

We know both the Constitution and the American people are on our side in this fight. President Trump’s dominating campaign has a commanding lead in the polls that has dramatically expanded as Crooked Joe Biden’s presidency continues to fail. 

We will quickly file a legal objection in state court to prevent this atrocious decision in Maine from taking effect, and President Trump will never stop fighting to Make America Great Again." —Steven Cheung, Trump Campaign Spokesman