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    Posts Distort History in Comparing Lincoln With Efforts to Disqualify Trump

    by Alan Jaffe Jan 23, 2024 4 minutes

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    Quick Take

    Efforts are underway in many states to disqualify former President Donald Trump from primary ballots, based on the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause. Some viral posts compare Trump to Abraham Lincoln and falsely claim Lincoln was “removed” from state ballots in 1860. A Lincoln scholar said the claim “could not be more historically misleading.”

    Full Story

    Challenges have been filed in at least 35 states to keep former President Donald Trump from appearing on the states’ presidential primary ballots, according to a review of court records and documents by the New York Times.

    the state Supreme Court in December that Trump was disqualified from the presidency based on the to the U.S. Constitution,

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