“One of the things I would want to do as president is go to Congress and seek the repeal of the First Step Act.
“At no point, as a congressman or as governor, has Ron DeSantis ever supported the final version of the First Step Act,” DeSantis campaign press secretary Bryan Griffin told CNN in an email.
His rapid response director, Christina Pushaw – one of the bill’s strongest critics – once strongly backed Trump on criminal justice reform.
DeSantis pointed to the First Step Act as a potential model for prison reform and re-entry programs in Florida.
“We, I think, need to look at after seeing what the federal government did with the prison reform and how to do some re-entry,” the governor said.
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