Florida governor Ron DeSantis said the four indictments against Donald Trump have “sucked out” the oxygen from the Republican presidential primary race and have only helped the former president toward reelection.

During an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network that aired Thursday, DeSantis said if he could change one thing about the race, it would be the Trump indictments. 

The indictments “just crowded out, I think, so much other stuff, and it’s sucked out a lot of oxygen” out of the race, he said.

Trump is facing four different criminal cases, including 13 felony charges in a Georgia case centering on the former president’s alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

He was also indicted on four felony counts as a result of special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election and another 42 felony counts stemming from Smith’s separate investigation into the former president’s alleged mishandling of classified documents.

Before that, Trump was indicted in Manhattan on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with a hush-money payment to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels.

DeSantis told CBN that Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg would not have brought the case “if it was anyone other than Donald Trump.”

He went on to say Bragg distorted justice with the case and in turn, the charges have distorted the primary.

DeSantis also decried the Colorado supreme court’s ruling this week barring Trump from the state’s ballot. The court ruled Tuesday that Trump is disqualified from holding the presidency because his actions in the wake of the 2020 election violated Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which forbids individuals who have “engaged in insurrection” from seeking federal office.

The Florida governor called the decision a “stunt” by Democrats and the media to boost Trump in the primary.

If Trump’s indictments are any indication, the Colorado ruling is indeed likely to rally the former president’s supporters and make it more difficult for the other candidates to get their message out.

“It makes it more of a challenge and ensures that most of every conversation — whether it’s with media or with voters, Trump is going to be part of that conversation,” GOP strategist Jim Merrill told National Review.