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(This Jan. 18 story has been corrected to rectify the name of Washington’s capital city from Columbia to Olympia in paragraph 7) By Joseph Ax and Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) – Donald Trump can remain on Washington state’s Republican presidential primary ballot, a judge ruled on Thursday, rejecting the latest effort to disqualify the former president from running again based on his efforts to reverse his 2020 election loss. As in other states, the voters who filed the challenge in Washington argued that Trump is ineligible to run for the presidency based on his actions on Jan. 6, 2021, when he de…