Trump won’t appear in Oregon voters’ informational pamphlet —here’s why

Former President Donald Trump won’t appear on a voters’ pamphlet mailed across Oregon because the 2024 GOP nominee missed the deadline to submit a statement in the informational guide, officials said.

Trump, along with his running mate Ohio Sen. JD Vance, will still be on the state’s ballot in his quest to retake the White House this November, but will be one of three presidential candidates that won’t show up in the booklet recently sent out to 3 million voters, according to reports.

Along with not submitting a candidate statement, his campaign did not fork over a fee of $3,500, the Oregon Capitol Chronicle reported last month.

 “Please be aware that Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump and Vice-Presidential candidate JD Vance will not appear in the voters’ pamphlet for the upcoming November 2024 General Election,” Jackson County Clark Christine Walker said, according to the Rogue Valley Times.

“The campaign declined to submit candidate statements by the filing deadline along with the required filing fee to the Oregon Secretary of State Office.”

The omission of Trump led to a stir on social media with some wrongly claiming it was a version of election interference.  

A spokesperson for the Oregon Secretary of State told oregonlive.com the office reached out to Trump’s campaign numerous times ahead of the Aug. 27 deadline to appear in the pamphlet, but did not receive a reply.

The pamphlet has each candidate’s current job title, work and educational background and then a short statement about their run for office. The pamphlet also appears online.

Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, Green Party candidate Jill Stein, Libertarian candidate Chase Oliver and independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy, who has dropped out of the race, are all in the booklet.

Progressive candidate Cornel West and Constitution Party candidate Randall Terry were also not in the guide along with Trump.

Trump, who lost Oregon in 2016 and 2020, was similarly not in the primary voters’ pamphlet earlier this year, according to Oregon Capital Chronicle.

An email to Oregon’s Secretary of State was not returned Thursday evening. An email to the Trump campaign was also not returned.