Oregon’s Democrat secretary of state does not list former President Donald Trump or his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance, as candidates on the office’s website, and county voter pamphlets exclude them from the biographies of presidential candidates.
Under candidates for president, Oregon Secretary of State LaVonne Griffin-Valade’s website lists candidates Kamala Harris, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Jill Stein, but Trump is nowhere to be found. Under candidates for vice president, the website simply lists Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
County voter pamphlets, issued by Griffin-Valade’s office, also omit Trump and Vance from the presidential candidates’ biographies. Pamphlets note that each biography was “furnished” by the candidate’s campaign, and that “candidates are not required to file voters’ pamphlet statements.”
The pamphlets also include a section for political party statements, in which they list the Democrat Party first and the Republican Party fifth.
The pamphlets do list Trump and Vance as candidates one time — in small print on page 26. The Republicans have stars by their name, indicating the “candidate chose not to submit a voters’ pamphlet statement.”
The secretary’s office posted on X that the absent biographies were not a mistake, and that Trump and Vance will still appear on ballots. “The Trump campaign chose not to participate. It was not an omission by officials,” the office posted Thursday evening.
The Oregon Republican Party said in an April press release that “the decision not to submit a statement for the voter’s pamphlet
