After being kicked out of the Republican Party former Georgia Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan has changed his party affiliation to the Democrat party.
Duncan was the Republican Lieutenant Governor from 2019 until 2023 and was famously at odds with President Trump over the 2020 presidential election results in the state.
However, recently Duncan explained that he wanted to become a Democrat even before that incident.
Duncan, who served as lieutenant governor as a Republican from 2019 until 2023, wrote in an op-ed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Tuesday that his path to becoming a Democrat began before President Donald Trump attempted to overturn his loss to former President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, which Duncan criticized at the time.
“My journey to becoming a Democrat started well before Donald Trump tried to steal the 2020 election in Georgia,” Duncan wrote in the newspaper.
“There’s no date on a calendar or line in the sand that points to the exact moment in time my political heart changed, but it has,” he continued. “My decision was centered around my daily struggle to love my neighbor, as a Republican.”
Duncan pointed to several policy issues that played a part in his decision to change parties, criticizing Republicans for their handling of issues such as health care, Medicaid, gun safety, immigration and how to help poor people.
Duncan used his platform in switching to call for gun control laws and expanded medicaid protections while criticizing the Trump administration’s deportation policies.
Duncan was kicked out of the Republican party in Georgia earlier this year for his disloyalty in endorsing Biden and Harris during the 2024 election cycle.
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