In a discussion this Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Geoff Duncan — a Republican who formerly served as lieutenant governor in Georgia — blasted the GOP for what Duncan characterized as the political party essentially sitting back while Donald Trump wreaks havoc. Just weeks prior, Trump easily nabbed the party’s already long expected presidential nomination for the year.
“He’s a felonious thug who walks down the street and throws sucker punches at people like Brian Kemp, like African American journalists, like John McCain, and the list goes on and on and on again,” Duncan said, referring to the ex-president.
“And the Republican Party is content sitting across the street watching it happen and not calling him out, not jumping into that fight and saying, you are wrong for us. This 10 percent in the middle — which now feels like it’s growing to be bigger than 10 percent in the middle — that’s going to decide this election are paying attention. And I have never seen a human be more self-destructive than Donald Trump the last two weeks. He continues to do it over and over and over again.”
Duncan was speaking the day after a Trump rally in Atlanta where the former president went after Republican Georgia leadership including Kemp, the state’s governor. Kemp’s faced a volley of animosity from the Trump corner of the GOP after he was among the state officials to reject prospects of altering or undercutting what, in reality, were the duly documented presidential election results from 2020 — when Biden won in Georgia. In that same discussion, Duncan himself also defended Brad Raffensperger, the current Secretary of State in Georgia who similarly faced off with Trump himself and his allies. Raffensperger and Kemp both won new terms in their state government positions in the 2022 elections.
