'Everybody keeps making excuses for Trump': Ex-GA lieutenant gov. frustrated by voters’ 'no man’s land'

28 June 2024

Although many prominent Republicans have been rallying around presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan is not one of them. The conservative Republican has endorsed incumbent President Joe Biden, making it clear that he considers Trump unfit for a second term in the White House.

But like many other Biden supporters, Duncan was disappointed by the president's widely criticized performance during his Thursday night, June 27 debate with Trump.

During a CNN appearance the next morning, Duncan characterized Biden's performance as weak and Trump's as disturbing.

When CNN's Kasie Hunt commented that the June 27 debate "could be what hands the presidency back to Donald Trump," Duncan responded, "The 10 percent in the middle are still in no man's land right now. And the 10 percent in the middle, by the way, is going to select who the next president of United States is."

The former Georgia lieutenant governor continued, "They're still has to be more to come. But I think there's some gnashing of teeth here on both sides thinking: What could have happened?"

Duncan went on to note how dramatically Sen. Marco Rubio's (R-Florida) comments on Trump have changed from 2016. Eight years ago, Rubio was a scathing Trump critic; now, he is an enthusiastic supporter.

Duncan told Hunt, "Everybody keeps making excuses around Donald Trump. He sat here and tried to defend January 6. I sat on January 6 with (Georgia Gov.) Brian Kemp in a podium a mile from here at the Georgia Capital, begging Donald Trump to get off his a** and say something to the American people that were trying to storm the U.S. Capitol. And he didn't until it was too late"

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