Alvin Bragg isn’t going anywhere. The first Black person elected Manhattan District Attorney, who made history by prosecuting President Donald Trump, has just secured the Democratic nomination for another term.
Bragg defeated Patrick Timmins, a law professor and former Bronx assistant DA, in Tuesday’s primary and is now headed to the general election this November.
And in Manhattan, where about 70% of registered voters are Democrats, that primary win basically makes him the frontrunner.
Bragg, 51, is no stranger to the spotlight. From Harlem to Harvard to helming one of the largest prosecutors’ offices in the country, his resume runs deep.
He was a civil rights attorney, a federal prosecutor, and a top deputy to the New York attorney general before making history as the first Black Manhattan DA.
But what really catapulted him into the national conversation? His move to indict Donald Trump.
While his predecessor, Cyrus Vance Jr., poked around the former president’s business dealings without pulling the trigger, Bragg zeroed in on something very specific: that infamous $130,000 hush-money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
The case wasn’t about the affair, but about the alleged falsification of business records to cover it up, just weeks before the 2016 election.
Trump, of course, denied everything and called the case a political witch hunt. But Bragg’s team took it to trial, and a jury returned a guilty verdict on 33 felony counts. The first-ever felony conviction of a U.S. president. Historic doesn’t even begin to cover it.
Trump is appealing, and he hasn’t stopped attacking Bragg, blasting him on social media and calling the case corrupt. But Bragg has remained unbothered and focused.
Now, with his primary win locked in, he’s got his sights set on November. He’ll face Republican Maud Maron, a former public defender who previously ran for Congress and City Council, but in a heavily blue Manhattan, she’s got an uphill climb.
