Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R), among the many social gathering’s highest-profile critics of President-elect Trump, responded to getting kicked out of the Georgia Republican Social gathering on Thursday by asking what took so lengthy.
“I mean, my first thoughts that came across my mind were what took them so long? There’s been a growing divide between myself and the Georgia Republican Party for years,” Duncan mentioned throughout his Thursday look on “CNN This Morning.”
“There’s been a growing divide amongst many Republicans in Georgia when the party started focusing 110 percent of their efforts on trying to defend a rigged 2020 election — in their words, not mine — and committing 100 percent of their financial resources, or a majority of their financial resources, to defending folks that were indicted for felony counts,” Duncan, a CNN contributor, advised anchor Kasie Hunt.
“And then the additional issues that continued to parlay from that point,” he added.
Georgia GOP’s State Govt Committee introduced Tuesday it had booted Duncan, who backed Vice President Harris throughout her unsuccessful 2024 presidential bid.
Duncan acquired backlash after siding with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) over Trump throughout the certification of the state’s normal election vote in 2020, when President Biden narrowly received the Peach State.
However in contrast to different Georgia Republicans who pushed again on Trump’s election denial, Duncan has continued to publicly criticize the president-elect.
The anti-Trump Republican spoke throughout the 2024 Democratic Nationwide Conference in August, urging his social gathering to “dump Trump” and arguing that by voting for Harris, independents and different Republicans have been being “patriots.”
On Thursday, he mentioned the state social gathering’s choice was one other “badge of honor.”
“And quite honestly, badges of honor come in all kinds of shapes and sizes, and this is one of those where I don’t want to be associated with a group that thinks that the best direction forward is chaos and confusion,” he mentioned.
