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brooklynite

(94,598 posts)
Wed Jan 8, 2020, 11:01 AM Jan 2020

Trump's Republican challengers won't appear on Wisconsin primary ballot

Source: WISN-TV

Republicans decided to only list President Donald Trump's name on the April 7 primary ballot, leaving out two other Republicans running against Trump: former Illinois Congressman Joe Walsh and former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld.

"I'm pissed off," Walsh told WISN 12 News while campaigning in New Hampshire. "I’m on the ballot in California and Texas but not Wisconsin. Florida, but not Wisconsin. How much sense does that make? That's a bunch of (expletive). That’s a bunch of B.S. The Wisconsin party chairman is on his knees right now kissing Donald Trump's feet."

Per state law, the Wisconsin Presidential Preference Selection Committee has the sole discretion to determine who appears on the ballot based upon candidates who are "generally advocated or recognized in the national news media throughout the United States."

Read more: https://www.wisn.com/article/trumps-republican-challengers-wont-appear-on-wisconsin-primary-ballot/30435421?src=app#

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Trump's Republican challengers won't appear on Wisconsin primary ballot (Original Post) brooklynite Jan 2020 OP
'Will never step foot over the border to Wi until the Dems take over again. n/t Peregrine Took Jan 2020 #1
Take your complaint to the GOP Cartoonist Jan 2020 #2
How low can Wisconsin sink? Mickju Jan 2020 #3
Wisconsin Presidential Primary Ballot mollie8 Jan 2020 #4
Wiscon sin Southern Blueneck Jan 2020 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author mollie8 Jan 2020 #6

mollie8

(162 posts)
4. Wisconsin Presidential Primary Ballot
Wed Jan 8, 2020, 12:37 PM
Jan 2020

Will there be a place on the ballot for write-ins? Everyone ought to write in the other candidates names.

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