Former President Donald Trump asked a Michigan court to declare that the Michigan secretary of state has no right to ban him from the state ballot in the 2024 presidential race—pointing to his significant lead in GOP primary polls and considerable public support.
“Despite President Trump’s tremendous popularity, there are people who want to deny Michigan voters the opportunity to express their choice by voting for him,” Trump’s lawyers wrote in an Oct. 30 filing at the Michigan Court of Claims. “To accomplish this, they want the Secretary of State to violate her duties and exercise powers she does not have to keep President Trump’s name off of the ballot. And they want to use this Court as a vehicle to do it.”
