Governor Evers Doesn't Support Efforts to Keep Donald Trump Off the Ballot in Wisconsin

Monday, January 8th, 2024 -- 12:00 PM

(Jessie Opoien, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) Democratic Gov. Tony Evers does not support efforts to keep Republican former President Donald Trump off the ballot in Wisconsin, he said this week.

According to Jessie Opoien with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, in an interview with the Journal Sentinel, Evers said he fears such efforts would only serve to fire up Trump supporters and make them feel the deck is stacked against them.

"My frustration is it gives his supporters a much larger thing to use as, ‘Oh, woe is me, the world is picking on Donald Trump,’ that sort of thing, because I think at the end of the day it's going to be thrown out by the Supreme Court anyway," Evers said. "So it's not that I’m against other states doing it, but I just think it's not helpful."

The bipartisan state Presidential Preference Selection Committee, which is made up of state Democratic and Republican party chairs, majority and minority leaders in the state Legislature, and others, met in the state Capitol on Tuesday to determine which presidential candidates will appear on Wisconsin's primary ballot.

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