Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended another top prosecutor on Wednesday, claiming State Attorney Monique Worrell, a Democrat, was too soft on crime in her Orlando-area district.

Prosecutors have a duty to faithfully enforce a law. Ones political agenda cannot trump this solemn duty, DeSantis said at a press conference Wednesday morning. Accordingly, I am today announcing the suspension of State Attorney Monique Worrell.

Worrells office did not immediately return a request for comment.

DeSantis who is running for the Republican presidential nomination has repeatedly criticized Worrell, a progressive and reform-minded prosecutor who was elected to her office in 2020. Worrell is Black; DeSantis is white.

In April, Worrells office warned that DeSantis had targeted her, writing in a letter that DeSantis seeks to exploit his political agenda against me and that his office was trying to build and justify a baseless case against a prosecutor he simply disagrees with politically.

In her own fiery press conference on Wednesday, Worrell claimed that DeSantis office has been pursuing her for over a year.

Under this tyranny, elected officials can be removed simply for political purposes and from the whim of the governor, and no matter how you feel about me you should not be ok with that, Worrell said.

This is simply a smoke screen for Ron DeSantis failing and disastrous [presidential] campaign. He needed to get back in the media in some way that will be red meat for his base.

DeSantis, who was once seen as a potential threat to Donald Trump in the race for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination but has since fallen in the polls, has made fighting woke a central part of his presidential campaign . Among his better-known policies in Florida are the anti-LGBTQ+ laws known as Dont Say Gay, which prohibit discussion of gender identity and sexual orientation in schools, and the Individual Freedom Act, popularly known as the Stop WOKE Act , which restricts how businesses and public schools can address issues around race.