Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis lashed out at Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg over the weekend as former President Trump continued to lead him in the polls.
In his second speech to a New York City-area audience in six weeks, DeSantis said Bragg “was all about politics” and called him a “threat to society.”
DeSantis, speaking in Nassau County hours after a speech at the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference, criticized the progressive district attorney for working to keep criminals out of jail and downgrading felonies to misdemeanors.
Yet despite DeSantis’ visits north, a new Yahoo News poll shows former President Donald Trump is now 26 points ahead of DeSantis, more than tripling his previous lead over the Florida leader since his impeachment last week. pass.
A post-impeachment poll showed Trump outranking DeSantis
Over the weekend, Ron DeSantis criticized the progressive district attorney for working to keep criminals out of jail and downgrading felonies to misdemeanors.
Yet despite DeSantis’ visits north, a new Yahoo News poll shows former President Donald Trump is now 26 points ahead of DeSantis.
During his most recent speech, DeSantis, who has yet to announce his run for the Republican presidential nomination, did not mention Trump by name, instead calling out Bragg for making “a flimsy case against a former president of the United States.”
“All this legal gymnastics to act like this is a felony, when almost every other time, he’s trying to take the crimes and demote them,” he continued.
‘This guy is doing politics! He has an agenda, that’s not the rule of law,’ the governor said, earning a standing ovation from his audience.
The governor made a lot of agenda to push himself, as he talked about his record in Florida over the past four years.
“We don’t have leaks, we don’t have palace intrigue,” he said, making a possible reference to the often messy affairs of the Trump administration.
‘We just run the agenda.’
Instead of focusing on Trump, a subject he’ll need to find a way to navigate if he ever officially announces his presidential bid, he spent most of his time bashing President Joe Biden.
He called Biden “weak” and “shaky,” saying he has been “controlled by leftist elements in the Democratic Party.”
Dozens of Trump supporters lined the street in front of DeSantis’ pledge to speak, many waving ‘Trump 2024’ signs and some displaying ‘DeSantis 2028’ signs.
‘I think that [the indictment] it is totally false. They just want to slow down [Trump] downstairs,” Rose Mui, 60, said, adding: “I don’t really care about DeSantis.
Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg has been accused of conducting a political “witch hunt” against Trump
During his most recent speech, DeSantis, who has yet to announce his run for the Republican presidential nomination, did not mention Trump by name, instead criticizing Bragg for making “a flimsy case against a former president of the United States.”
Regardless of Trump’s significant lead over DeSantis, according to the Yahoo poll, the same poll shows that voters are largely not in favor of Trump assuming a second term if his impeachment leads to a conviction.
When asked: ‘If Donald Trump is convicted of a crime in this case, do you think he should be allowed to serve as president again in the future?’ 52 percent said they shouldn’t.
Thirty-one percent of those polled said he would still have another term to serve. That split among Republicans was that 56 percent believed he should be president again, 24 percent believed he shouldn’t, and 20 percent weren’t sure.
Donald Trump’s allies remain optimistic that his impeachment has risen in popularity as their research shows he is winning the Republican leadership race.
A poll by Trump’s campaign found that 51 percent of Republicans see him as their preferred candidate for 2024, putting him ahead of his biggest threat, Ron DeSantis, who shot 21 percent.
The claim comes after Trump’s team claimed yesterday that more than $4 million was donated to his presidential campaign within 24 hours of his impeachment.
The former president faces 34 charges related to an alleged $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016.
Trump’s team conducted a full-field ballot test of 14 potential Republican candidates on Friday and Saturday, two days after his impeachment.
While Trump and DeSantis ranked first in the latest poll, former Vice President Mike Pence ranked third with 6 percent of the vote.
Nikki Haley came in fourth with four percent, as all other candidates received two percent or less each.
A general election test vote also put Trump ahead of Biden 47-43, a figure little changed from his team’s previous poll in March.
Meanwhile, 47 percent of those polled said they would not get a fair trial in Manhattan.
Trump has repeatedly expressed concern about being tried in the Democratic state.
Trump was sensationally indicted Thursday following a years-long investigation into money paid to Daniels
Trump was sensationally indicted Thursday following a years-long investigation into the money paid to Daniels.
He is scheduled to be arrested Tuesday and faces up to four years in jail if convicted.
It marked a victory for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who reinvigorated the investigation and doggedly pursued the case.
But Trump and his family members have repeatedly accused Bragg of a politically charged “witch hunt” that will only make voters more sympathetic to the former president.