Ex-GA lieutenant gov. rips GOP leaders for 'falling in line' behind Trump: Vote 'for a decent person'

Geoff Duncan, who served as Georgia’s lieutenant governor from 2019 to 2023, on Monday lamented his fellow Republican leaders who are “[falling] in line behind” Donald Trump, explaining in an op-ed for the Atlantic Journal-Constitution why he’s voting for Joe Biden in November.

Duncan noted many Republicans have expressed support for a Trump ticket in 2024, despite the former president’s unprecedented efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and his subsequent inciting of a violent mob who ransacked the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2020. Among those Duncan called out are U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu and former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr.

“… Having served as his attorney general until December 2020, Barr saw firsthand Trump’s ability to cause damage,” Duncan wrote. “Barr’s declaration that the U.S. Justice Department uncovered no evidence of widespread voter fraud that could change the outcome of the 2020 election infuriated his boss and set off a chain of events that ended with Jan. 6.”

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Listing a slew of recent polls that appear to have Trump leading Biden both nationally and in key battleground states, Duncan urged fellow Republicans to vote for Biden while electing “GOP congressional majorities to block his second-term legislative agenda and provide a check and balance.”

“The alternative is another term of Trump , a man who has disqualified himself through his conduct and his character,” Duncan argued.

“The healing of the Republican Party cannot begin with Trump as president (and that’s aside from the untold damage that potentially awaits our country),” Duncan wrote. “Unlike Trump, I’ve belonged to the GOP my entire life. This November, I am voting for a decent person I disagree with on policy over a criminal defendant without a moral compass.”

Read Duncan's full op-ed atthe Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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