Ron DeSantis, Donald Trump host dueling presidential campaigns in NH
MANCHESTER, N.H. - Former President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis both made campaign stops in the battleground state of New Hampshire on Tuesday.
The stops came one day after CNN obtained and aired an audio of recording in which Trump is allegedly heard showing off classified documents.
Trump did not mention the recording but did refer to his indictments, one for the mishandling of classified documents, as a "witch hunt."
"Every time the radical left Democrats indict me, I consider it a badge, a great, great beautiful badge of honor and courage because I'm being indicted for you," Trump said at a luncheon for Republican women in Concord.
Supporters who waited to see the former president outside of his new campaign office in Manchester said they stand by him, despite the charges against him.
"I don't believe what he did was illegal ,and what Biden did was. Everybody ignores what Biden did," supporter Beth Petit said.
Governor Ron DeSantis held a town hall event in Hollis, New Hampshire, where he talked about cutting government fat and targeting so-called "woke activism."
"We're going to end the weaponization of governmentm and that means DOJ; that means, FBI, IRS. All of these agencies are going to be turned inside and out," DeSantis said.
DeSantis shied away from answering a question about Trump's handling of the 2020 election.
"If this election is about Biden's failures and our vision for the future, we are going to win. If it's about relitigating things that happened two, three years ago, we are going to lose," DeSantis said.