WaPo: “After Donald Trump was indicted for the fourth time, a handful of Georgia Republicans at the heart of the case issued a sharp political rebuke of the former president. Ex-lieutenant governor Geoff Duncan argued that Republican voters should assess the damage Trump has wrought and “hit the reset button.” Gov. Brian Kemp refuted Trump’s false election claims and said, “The future of our country is at stake in 2024 and that must be our focus.”
But they were lonely voices in their party.
As Trump on Tuesday said he would be exonerated and planned to offer a more detailed rebuttal next week, some of his rivals in the Republican presidential primary echoed his attacks on the Fulton County prosecutor, even as they sidestepped the substance of the allegations facing him. “I think it’s an example of this criminalization of politics,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said. Only longer-shot hopefuls were directly critical of the former president.”