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    ‘I must be better than Trump’: Why California’s elections chief is keeping the former president on the ballot

    by Taryn Luna and Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times Dec 29, 2023 4 minutes
    Weber, now California secretary of state, is resisting pressure from within the Democratic Party to remove Donald Trump from the March statewide primary ballot because of his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Secretary of State Shirley Weber is resisting pressure from within the Democratic Party to remove Donald Trump from the March statewide primary ballot because of his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol — arguing that, unlike the former Republican president, she feels obligated to follow the law.

    Weber said she finds Trump’s “behavior and his actions, not just as a former president, but as a citizen of the United States, to be abhorrent and disturbing and an attack on democracy.”

    “But at the same time, if I believe in this democracy that is there, I have to basically continue to abide by the rule of law, and for me not to do that, then I am

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