quoting now, he is not qualified to hold the office of the president under section three of the 14th amendment, period. she joins us momentarily. this comes on the day in which the former president was temporarily back on colorado s ballot pending supreme court decision. cnn s katelyn polantz joins us now with this breaking news out of maine. what can you tell us about this decision, kaitlan? john, there is a lot of meat towards secretary of state china bellow wrote from maine today in her ruling. one, january six was an insurrection. she made that finding, two, donald trump engaged in that insurrection. three, that means he is not qualified to be on the primary ballot in maine. four, she found that it is her responsibility to make these decisions. so, putting that all together, this came because of voters had asked her to look at this, to make a ruling under the way that the state lays out. she can as the secretary of state to determine whether people are eligible for the
ac 360 starts right now. all right. the breaking news, and it is big, just a week after colorado did it, maine becomes the second state to bar donald trump from its republican primary ballot. john berman here in for anderson in the decision from maine s secretary of state cannot be any plainer. quoting now, he is not qualified to hold the office of the president under section 3 of the 14th amendment, period. she joins us momentarily. this comes on a day in which the former president was temporarily back on colorado s ballot pending a supreme court decision. cnn s katelyn polantz joins us now with this breaking news out of maine. what can you tell us about this decision, katelyn? john, there is a lot of meat to what secretary of state shanna bellows wrote from maine today in her ruling. one, january 6th was an insurrection. she made that finding. two, donald trump engaged in that insurrection. three, that means he s not qualified to be on the primary ballot in maine. and
through these early states, we were in iowa, now we re in new hampshire, jake, and what we re seeing emerge is when he s on the stump he s talking indirectly about former president trump. he s never naming him. it s when he gets off the stump and talks to media that we get those more direct hits that he s taking at him. and that seems to be kind of the needle he s trying to thread right now because remember, a lot of these voters he s talking to may have potentially voted, or most likely voted for former president trump in the past. so he has to kind of walk a fine line here. and what we re also seeing is how he is pitching himself to voters. and that s really starting to come into focus. and what we re seeing, the lane they re really carving out for him and that he s carving out for himself is that of a sitting executive. he s not a former anything. he is a sitting governor in florida. and when he talks to voters he s really going through and outlining what he and his team h
the gloves are truly off tonight in the republican race for president. john king in for anderson tonight. thank you for your time. even if you re just paying a little attention to the republican race, it is hard to notice ron desantis and the former president openly throwing haymakers. never mind the old 11 d commandment. donald trump, of course, has never bought into that, and now it seems his fellow floridian doesn t either. over the last 48 hours, governor desantis has gone straight after the gop front-runner, most recently today on this conservative talk show. he s been attacking me by moving left, so this is a different guy than 2015/2016. 2 million illegal aliens he wanted to amnesty. we both faced covid-19, and we both responded in the way we did. he responded by elevating anthony fauci and really turning over the reins to dr. fauci. under the trump administration, he enacted a bill, basically a jailbreak bill. as for mr. trump, there s this, and, yes, listen close
we still have a lot of work to do. but with lawmakers on both sides skeptical, do they have the votes to actually pass it? i ll speak exclusively with house progressive leader, congresswoman pramila jayapal and gop congressman, dusty johnson, next. and room to grow? more republican presidential hopefuls jump in. i m running to lead our great american comeback. i m the candidate, the far left fears the most. with the former president dominating the polls, can they cut into his lead. republican governor chris sununu joins me exclusively. plus, fallen heroes. this memorial day, veterans reflect on their comrades who did not come home. i think about them probably every day almost. yeah, really. you don t every forget it. a look at some of the incredible americans we lost at war, coming up. hi, i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is waiting to exhale. president biden and speaker mccarthy last night announced that they have struck an agree