Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis conceded Sunday that the handfuls of legal costs in opposition to Donald Trump in 4 separate authorized instances have helped the previous president in polls.

Mr. DeSantis, who trails Mr. Trump by double digits in polls of GOP main voters, argued the race for the White House must be concerning the future moderately than grappling with authorized hurdles from previous actions.

“I think that gave the former president more support,” Mr. DeSantis stated on NBC’s “Meet the Press” of the marketing campaign finance costs in New York in opposition to Mr. Trump for hush-money funds to girls throughout his 2016 marketing campaign. “I think people felt that he was being treated unfairly, which he was, in that circumstance.”

Mr. DeSantis stated the 91 counts in opposition to Mr. Trump throughout his authorized instances “highlight the weaponization of justice by some of these left-wing prosecutors” however prompt the ex-president would battle to win the final election.

“But here’s the thing, ultimately: It’s not about the past. It’s not about all these other issues. It’s ultimately about how do you get in and reverse the country’s decline?” he stated. “How do we get the country back on a strong plane, so that we lower prices for people, get the border secured, deal with crime in the inner cities? And we need a strong leader to be able to do that, someone that can win and someone that can actually bring this in.”

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