In a discussion this weekend on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Geoff Duncan — a Republican who formerly served as lieutenant governor in swing state Georgia — tore into Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as the two’s political party sticks by the latter, despite Trump’s raft of legal problems and numerous scandals.
“Brad Raffensperger and myself included, we have done more for the conservative cause than Donald Trump has ever done,” Duncan said after a Trump rally in Atlanta where the former president started going after Republican Georgia leadership. “This is now starting to not be Donald Trump’s problem. This is starting to be the Republican Party’s problem. We have to call him out for what he is. 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.”
Raffensperger is the Secretary of State in Georgia who gained widespread notoriety for facing off with pressure from Trump circles after the 2020 presidential election, when the Democratic ticket won Raffensperger’s state, breaking a long streak of Republican victories there in presidential races. Raffensperger rebuffed the prospect of taking some kind of action to alter or undercut what were, in reality, Georgia’s duly documented election results.
Duncan, meanwhile, is backing Vice President Kamala Harris as the latter runs for president, recently locking down the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination for the year after the withdrawal from this year’s election of President Joe Biden. Biden, who faced preceding weeks of questions about his advanced age, endorsed Harris to take his place, and there was really only a brief period of serious uncertainty about whether the Democrats’ subsequent pick would, in fact, be Harris.
