“Former President Trump attends political event amid ongoing legal battles”

This will be the first visit of the former president (2017-2021) to that territory in the northeast of the country since the end of last January, when he spoke at a party event.

It is also one of Trump’s first political events since he was indicted on April 4 on 34 felony counts in a New York City court on charges related to a cover-up money scheme for an alleged affair during his campaign for Trump. 2016.

The unprecedented event makes him the first sitting or former president to face criminal charges.

Trump, who says that no legal problem will stop him in his race for the White House, will campaign three days after the start of a civil trial in a Manhattan court, where the writer E is accused of sexual assault and defamation. Jean Carroll.

The journalist and former columnist claims that she was raped by the tycoon in the changing room of a luxury department store in New York in the spring of 1996.

Despite this, the ex-governor, involved in other wrongs with the law, remains strong in New Hampshire and appears nationally as a favorite within the Republican field, according to a new poll on Thursday.

In a poll by the private Emerson College, Trump won 62 percent support, up seven points from two months ago, while Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis garnered just 16 percent support from voters, down nine points since February.

DeSantis, who has yet to officially announce his candidacy, is seen as Trump’s main challenger to beat on the road to his party’s nomination next year.

Earlier this month an opinion survey by the Saint Anselm College Survey Center found that 42 percent of likely Republican primary voters in New Hampshire support Trump.

DeSantis has visited primary states and begun an overseas tour in recent weeks, but is facing criticism from supporters for waiting so long to enter the presidential race, The Hill newspaper reported.

Meanwhile, Trump and his allies say the allegations against him are the result of a political witch hunt.

The former occupant of the chair in the Oval Office spoke last week in the city of Indianapolis at the annual convention of the National Rifle Association.

New Hampshire, which Joe Biden won in November 2020 with 52.9 percent of the vote to Trump’s 45.5, was displaced in the order of the Democratic primary calendar.

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