Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan is still a committed Republican — but he's voting for President Joe Biden, and on CNN Tuesday morning, he explained why.
A longtime Trump skeptic who declined to seek re-election after a single term in office, Duncan has long held out hope for what he calls a "GOP 2.0" that has left Trump behind and is simply focused on conservative policy, warning his party that tying themselves to a man indicted on over 90 criminal charges is going to end in disaster. With the party on track to run Trump for president a third time, Duncan feels the only course correction is for them to lose the presidency in 2024, while building their power at other levels of government.
"Lieutenant governor, we're listening, convince... your other fellow Republicans that they should vote for President Biden," said anchor John Berman.
"Well, enough's enough," said Duncan. "Donald Trump is not our future, he's not our present, and now looking back, he certainly wasn't our past. Donald Trump's a fake Republican. He's proven that over and over and over again. He simply wants the position of president to be powerful, and he's willing to lie, cheat, and steal for it. And if we're going to fix this party and go forward, the party that is conservative but not crazy and angry, we've got to do it without Donald Trump."
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Duncan added that he understands the drive of his fellow Republicans to want one of their own back in the White House — but this isn't the way to do it.
"If we can get past Donald Trump, have a Republican-controlled Congress, we can have a firewall in place, and then we can take the next four years to fix our party and get a legitimate candidate forward that can lead us in the right direction," he added.
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