Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis spoke Thursday about the one thing he wishes he could change in the 2024 campaign: Donald Trump’s legal problems.
DeSantis called the four accusations against the 77-year-old unfair and lamented that they had “distorted” the Republican Party primary process, while warning that they could spell doom for Trump in the general election.
“I wish Trump hadn’t been accused of any of this,” DeSantis told Christian Broadcasting Network host David Brody.
“Of [Manhattan DA] Alvin Bragg, I have criticized the cases… that is distorting justice, which is bad, but I also think it distorted the primaries.”
The 45-year-old posited that the allegations increased Trump’s support among Republican voters and prevented his rivals from gaining traction in the race.
“It’s also displaced a lot of other things and sucked up a lot of oxygen,” DeSantis said.
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Ron DeSantis wishes Donald Trump hadn’t been impeached. CBN News
Bragg secured the first indictment against Trump in late March, accusing him of 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal money payments to former adult film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal.
At the time, polls showed DeSantis in sight of Trump in the race for the Republican nomination.
But since the time of the first impeachment, Trump’s lead has ballooned to the current spread of 52.2 points in the RealClearPolitics average.
In total, Trump faces 91 criminal charges in two federal cases, a state case in Georgia and the Manhattan case.
“I think the Democrats had a plan on this,” DeSantis told Brody. “I think the media has a plan for this. And I think if it gets to the point where six months from now Trump is the presumptive nominee and he has to go through all of this, they will have a plan for how they are going to get through this.”
On Wednesday, the Sunshine State Republican criticized the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove the 45th president from the primary vote, echoing a similar concern.
“They’re doing all of this to basically solidify primary support for him, get him into the general.” he said at a campaign event in Iowa. “And the whole general election is going to be all this legal stuff.”
Ron DeSantis highlighted George Soros’ endorsement of Alvin Bragg and touted his record of removing two Soros-backed prosecutors in Florida. GNMiller/NYPost
DeSantis has campaigned aggressively in Iowa, seeking to build momentum against Trump ahead of the Jan. 15 caucuses.
Florida’s governor has earned coveted endorsements from Gov. Kim Reynolds and evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaats.
However, the PCR average shows that Trump leads DeSantis by 32.7 percentage points.
The governor of Florida believes that the accusations against Donald Trump have been unfair. AP
“Trump obviously has a certain segment that is very strong,” he explained. “However, many of these people who appear in these surveys are soft. I mean, they remember him, they liked his policies, but they are willing to vote for someone else.”
Throughout the campaign, DeSantis has tried to convey the message that Trump failed to keep his promises and would likely lose in the general election.
“Obviously, Trump could win the primary,” he told CBN. “I’m not convinced he can win overall.”
Donald Trump has vehemently denied any wrongdoing and has pleaded not guilty to all pending charges against him. Via REUTERS
“Ron DeSanctus has a lot of things he wishes he had changed, from hiring Jeff Roe to run his super PAC, to wearing uncomfortable heels in his shoes, to advertising his Spaces campaign that was criticized from the beginning, to hiring his personal cronies. no presidential experience,” Trump spokesman Steven Cheung told The Post in response.
“But most of all, he probably wishes he hadn’t run in the first place so he wouldn’t have to humiliate himself on the campaign trail every day.”
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