Soros-Backed California Lieutenant Governor Calls on Elections Official To Block Trump From Ballot
21st December 2023
California lieutenant governor Eleni Kounalakis (D.), the George Soros-backed candidate for governor in 2026, on Wednesday urged the state’s elections official to “explore every legal option” to boot former president Donald Trump from the primary ballot.
Kounalakis said she was inspired by Colorado’s all-Democrat supreme court, which in a split decision on Tuesday barred Trump from that state’s primary ballot on the grounds that the former president “engaged in insurrection.”
“California is obligated to determine if Trump is ineligible for the California ballot for the same reasons described in [the Colorado case],” Kounalakis wrote. “The Colorado decision can be the basis for a similar decision here in our state.”
Kounalakis’s letter comes as she tries to build her political profile in a bid to succeed Gavin Newsom as governor. Early this year, she became the first person to announce a run for the office. Democratic megadonor George Soros in June gave the maximum amount allowed to her campaign with a $36,400 contribution.