Alvin Bragg, the prosecutor who indicted Trump, won the Democratic nomination for the Manhattan district

Current Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, who accused U.S. President

Thus, the 51-year-old prosecutor will move on to the general election to face independent Diana Florence, who is a veteran of the DA's office who opposed Bragg in 2021, and Republican Maud Maron, who is a self-described "ex-liberal" activist.Such political figures have gone so far as to comment on several occasions that, should Bragg emerge the winner of the race for the Democratic nomination, the general election will become a referendum on his record.

An extremist prosecutor

According to several experts, Bragg is part of a wave of progressive-leaning prosecutors who promised to reform criminal justice with approaches that many have called extremist in trying to find alternatives to prosecution. Both the 51-year-old prosecutor and others who follow his same ideas have been harshly criticized in recent years in the wake of the brutal rise in crime during the pandemic, being branded as lenient.

When he initially ran in 2021, Bragg had a low profile, having been merely a federal prosecutor with experience in the state attorney general's office, where he went on to lead a unit charged with investigating the killing of unarmed civilians by police. Several media outlets highlighted thatBragg's appeal at the electoral level was his personal history, being an African-American who grew up in the depths of Harlem, in a terrible time when police harassment and high crime rates were the common denominator of every day.