Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) clarified on Friday that former President Donald Trump still has the right to vote in Florida elections despite a Manhattan jury finding him guilty on 34 counts that District Attorney Alvin Bragg has asserted are felonies.
Former President Donald Trump hasn’t lost his voting rights in Florida. Rights are not removed in Florida where they haven’t yet been stripped in the convicting jurisdiction.
That said, given the absurd nature of the New York prosecution of Trump, this would be an easy case to…
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) June 1, 2024
“The bottom line is that Donald Trump’s vote this November will be one of millions that demonstrate Florida is now a solid Republican state!” the governor concluded in his post.
DeSantis’s clarification on Trump’s voting rights came after Democrats and left-wing activists hyped the 45th president as a “convicted felon” following a Manhattan jury finding him guilty on all 34 counts in his business records trial.
Many of the left-wing braggers echoed each other on social media with the claim that Trump would not be able to vote for himself in Florida in the upcoming 2024 presidential election.
Now that Trump is a convicted felon, under Florida law, he can’t even vote for himself in the election!
That’s karma right there!
— Rep. Frederica Wilson (@RepWilson) May 30, 2024
Others who also spread this false information included internet personalities Luke Beasley and Santiago Mayer, filmmaker Bree Newsome, and Connecticut State Sen. Matt Lesser, among a slew of other left-wing accounts.
