Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan floats possible run for office after switching to Democratic Party

The former governor of Georgia, Geoff Duncan, pointed out a possible run for a higher position as a democrat after announcing the Republican party.

Duncan, who acted as a Republican from 2019 to 2023, said Democratic party At the beginning of this week with a decision about his political future, which may come in the next few weeks or months in the next few weeks, says WSB TV.

“I think Georgians want people who can say power in the middle,” he said to The Outlet.

He did not indicate which higher office he could look for, but it was speculated that he could start a campaign for the governor in order to be the subsequent temporary governor Brian Kemp, whom Duncan served as governor of Leutnant during his time.

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Keisha Lance Bottoms, a former mayor of Atlanta, who later worked in the Biden administration, and – on the Republican side – the current Georgia Lt. Governor Burt Jones and the prosecutor General Chris Carr.

In a Op-ED published on Tuesday in the Journal constitution of Atlanta published on Tuesday, Duncan wrote that his way to become a democrat Donald Trump tried to lift his defeat against former President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.

“My journey to the Democrat started long before Donald Trump tried to steal the 2020 elections in Georgia,” Duncan wrote in the newspaper.

“There is no date in a calendar or a line in the sand that indicates the exact moment that my political heart has changed, but it” continued, “he continued.” My decision revolved around my daily struggle to love my neighbor as a republican. “

Trump replied to Duncan’s change of party by saying that the former lieutenant governor was a “total loser” who is no longer sought in the Republican Party.

“The failed former Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan from Georgia is a total loser,” Trump wrote on Friday about the social of truth. “Was never able to do something, everything he ever did was to complain. We no longer wanted him in the Republican Party, so I was told that he had become a democrat. Good puzzles. You don’t even have a chance !!!”

Duncan pointed to several political issues that played a role in his decision to change parties and the Republicans for their treatment of problems such as healthcare, medicaid, weapon security, immigration and how to help poor people.

He wrote that his term of office taught him the best way to “love” my neighbors is the public order. Before his time as governor of Leutnant, he served in the house in Georgia from 2013 to 2017.

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Duncan’s decision to leave the GOP is made after the Republican party Georgia expelled it from the party at the beginning of this year for alleged infidelity. The party’s decision cited his confirmation of Biden in the 2024 presidential election and after his demolition of his confirmation of the former Vice President Kamala Harris as well as alleged efforts to undermine and sabotage some Republican candidatesIncluding Jones and failed in 2022 Senate candidate Herschel Walker.

The former Republican also spoke in August at the Democratic National Convention to support Harris.

“Geoff Duncan finally said loudly what every person has known for years: he is a democrat,” Josh Mcoon, chairman of the Republican Party in Georgia, told WSB TV.

In recent years, Duncan has been a loud critic of Trump and the Republican Party, in particular since the President’s efforts, his loss of election in 2020 and January 6, 2021, Capitol Riot.

“There is no line in the sand or a moment in time. It was a number of parallel processes. One that observes the heart and soul of the Republican Party, which was followed by Donald Trump and the one who was followed exactly,” Duncan told WSB TV.

Duncan wrote in the OP-ED that the Medicaid, which was signed last month, would leave the “in Shambles” financing “in Shambles” because it reduces hundreds of billions of dollars from the government program. He also criticized the measure for her cuts of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, generally known as food brands, and its effects that children do not get hungry at school.

He also referred to surveys that showed support for weapons control measures such as universal background reviews and red flags.

The ex-Republican also criticized the mass policy of the Trump government that he said: “I have transformed a lesson about how they shouldn’t love their neighbors.” He said

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“The list of reasons why I am now a democrat is growing,” wrote Duncan. “The most important thing is that my decision takes me to the best possible position every day to love my neighbor.”