'The right person': Congressman Cory Mills endorses Donald Trump's 2024 presidential bid
Republican U.S. Rep. Cory Mills, who represents the southern half of Volusia County in Congress, has weighed in on the 2024 presidential election.
Mills, in an interview with Time magazine published Monday, said Donald Trump should be returned to office.
The first-term congressman from New Smyrna Beach, who didn't immediately respond to requests for comment Monday, told Time the March 30 indictment by a New York grand jury on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records was a defining moment.
“I think that what’s happening in New York is a very unifying event,” Mills said. “We need to stop the infighting and come together and unify. And I think right now the person that we need to be unifying behind is President Trump.”
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At least two recent polls show an American public greatly divided over Trump's arrest in New York. An ABC/Ipsos poll conducted April 6-7 stated 53% of the 566 adults surveyed said the former president did something illegal in the falsified-records case. Half said Trump should have been charged with a crime, while another 48% said he should suspend his campaign.
A CNN poll showed 60% approved of the indictment, with 40% disapproving. The poll surveyed 1,048 respondents 18 and older on March 31-April 1.
Trump endorsed Mills in his congressional bid, although the former president waited until October − after a competitive, eight-person GOP primary − to announce his backing. Mills joined Matt Gaetz, Byron Donalds, and Anna Paulina Luna to become the fourth member of Congress from Florida to endorse Trump.
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