Hannity Asks DeSantis Why Trump Has Such a ‘Large Lead’ Over Him Despite Four Indictments

Fox News host Sean Hannity asked Florida Governor Ron DeSantis why he is so far behind Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination, despite the four indictments the former president is facing.

Trump is the runaway frontrunner to win the 2024 GOP primary despite the fact he is under criminal indictment in four jurisdictions, two of which stem from his attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election. His lead in the 2024 contest is so large, he is thus far boycotting the Republican debates. DeSantis has been polling in a distant second or third, depending on the survey.

The governor joined Monday’s Hannity from Iowa in a room full of supporters.

“Let me look at the polls and let me ask you the question,” Hannity began. “Donald Trump has had a pretty large lead against all the other candidates. And in many ways when you would think that if a presidential candidate gets indicted four times and arraigned four times, it seems to defy all conventional political gravity that every time that happens that the poll numbers go up. How do you explain that?”

DeSantis responded by attacking the charges against the man he is trying to defeat.

“I think that when that Alvin Bragg case came down, it was just so transparently ridiculous to go back seven or eight years,” the governor said, referring to the Manhattan district attorney’s case against Trump that alleges he falsified business records to conceal hush money payments. “Clearly this would not have been brought for nonpolitical reasons. And so I think that he got a lot of sympathy as a result of that in particular. Maybe some of the others too.”

DeSantis went on to say the justice system is “ridiculous” when it is “in the hands of leftist politicians.” He then pivoted, stating that many Republican voters have yet to make up their minds.

“There’s a lot of people that have just not made a final decision,” he said.

Trump has repeatedly attacked DeSantis for being “disloyal” after the former president endorsed his now-rival for governor in 2018.

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