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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, the prosecutor who oversaw the historic hush-money case against President Donald Trump, won Tuesday\u2019s Democratic primary as he seeks reelection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bragg defeated Patrick Timmins \u2014 a litigator, law professor and former Bronx assistant district attorney \u2014 to advance to November\u2019s general election. About 70% of registered Manhattan voters are Democrats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first-term incumbent will face Republican Maud Maron, who was a public defender for decades and previously ran for Congress and NYC\u2019s City Council as a Democrat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bragg has long been one of the nation\u2019s most prominent prosecutors, spotlighted in TV\u2019s \u201cLaw & Order\u201d and other shows. The DA directs about 600 attorneys in one of the biggest local prosecutors\u2019 offices in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He raised the office\u2019s profile still further by bringing the hush-money case. His predecessor, fellow Democrat Cyrus R. Vance Jr., spent years investigating various Trump dealings but didn\u2019t procure an indictment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bragg decided to focus on how and why porn actor Stormy Daniels was paid $130,000 to clam up about her claims of a 2006 sexual encounter with the married Trump. The payment was made, through the then-candidate\u2019s personal attorney, weeks before the 2016 presidential election. Trump\u2019s company records logged the money as a legal expense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump denied any wrongdoing and any sexual involvement with Daniels. But a jury last year found him guilty of 33 felony counts of falsifying business records, the first-ever felony conviction of a former \u2014 and now again \u2014 U.S. commander in chief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump is appealing the verdict. The Republican president has long derided the case as a political \u201cwitch hunt,\u201d and he has kept lambasting Bragg by social media as recently as March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bragg, 51, was a civil rights lawyer, federal prosecutor and top deputy to New York\u2019s attorney general before becoming DA. Raised in Harlem and educated at Harvard, he\u2019s the first Black person to hold the post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His tenure had a rocky start. Days after taking office in 2022, he issued a memo telling staffers not to prosecute some types of cases, nor seek bail or prison time in some others. After criticism from the police commissioner and others, Bragg apologized for creating \u201cconfusion\u201d and said his office wasn\u2019t easing up on serious cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The matter continued to animate his critics. Trump repeatedly branded Bragg \u201csoft on crime,\u201d and Timmins said on his campaign site homepage that the memo \u201chas brought about increased crime and a perception of chaos in the subway and on our streets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Timmins \u2014 who has raised about $154,000 to Bragg\u2019s $2.2 million since January 2022 \u2014 also pledged to do more to staunch subway crime, keep cases from getting dismissed for failure to meet legal deadlines, and prioritize hate crimes, among other things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bragg\u2019s campaign emphasized his efforts to fight gun violence, help sexual assault survivors, prosecute hate crimes and go after bad landlords and exploitative bosses, among other priorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His office, meanwhile, has been enmeshed in a string of high-profile cases in recent months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The office is using a post-9\/11 terrorism law to prosecute UnitedHealthcare CEO killing suspect Luigi Mangione, lost a homicide trial against Marine veteran and Republican cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre Daniel Penny in a case that stirred debate about subway safety and self-defense, and retried former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein on sex crimes charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mangione, Penny and Weinstein all pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bragg unexpectedly inherited the Vance-era Weinstein case after an appeals court ordered a new trial. In a jumbled outcome, jurors this month convicted Weinstein on one top charge, acquitted him of another and didn\u2019t reach a verdict on a third, lower-level charge \u2014 which Bragg aims to bring to trial a third time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, the prosecutor who oversaw the historic hush-money case against President Donald Trump, won Tuesday\u2019s Democratic primary as he seeks reelection. Bragg defeated Patrick Timmins \u2014 a litigator, law professor and former Bronx assistant district attorney \u2014 to advance to November\u2019s general election. About 70% of registered Manhattan voters are Democrats. 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