Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R) on Sunday criticized the party for remaining silent as former President Trump attacked conservative heavyweights including Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who resisted Trump’s attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the state.
“We’ve done more for conservatism than Donald Trump ever did,” Duncan said of Kemp, Raffensperger and himself on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “This is becoming less of a Donald Trump issue. This is becoming a Republican issue.”
“We have to expose him for what he is: a violent criminal who walks the streets throwing surprise punches at people like Brian Kemp, African-American journalists, John McCain, the list goes on and on,” Duncan continued.
“And Republicans just sit across the street and watch it happen, without condemning them, without jumping into the fight and saying, ‘You’re wrong for us,'” he said.
Duncan, who has said he will vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024, believes Trump’s defeat in November’s election will force the Republican Party to reexamine its policies and priorities.
“This 10 percent of the median, which feels like it’s becoming bigger than the 10 percent of the median that will decide this election now, is something I’m paying attention to. I’ve never seen anyone more self-destructive than Donald Trump has been over the last two weeks,” Duncan said.
“He’s going to do it over and over again, and when he loses and the Republican Party finally takes a breather and wakes up and says, ‘We need Republican Party 2.0,’ some of us will agree, but it’s going to take time to fix.”
“My hope is that Kamala Harris can finally be a blank canvas to help us put new policies and new ideas into practice. That’s the risk I’m taking as a Republican voting for Kamala Harris.”
