Republicans must ignore those that will 'visit Trump in jail one day': Ex-GOP Georgia official
Republicans need to get over the obsession that a large portion of their base has with Donald Trump and simply move on for the good of the party, former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan told CNN anchor Anderson Cooper on Thursday evening — the people who, he argued, would happily visit the former president in prison should he be convicted in any of the four indictments currently pending against him.
"Lieutenant Governor Duncan, do you think the country's democratic institutions are strong enough to withstand being tested again in 2024?" asked Cooper.
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"I certainly hope so," said Duncan, who retired in 2022 and was replaced with a former state senator implicated in the Georgia fake electors plot. "I mean, we watched our country rise up after January 6th and do the things that we needed to do to get back on track. But still, there is a completely huge group of misguided individuals."
"Look, Republicans aren't going to turn the corner until we hold Trump accountable," Duncan continued. "He lost to Joe Biden in 2020. That was his fault. He campaigned terribly. He ran on the wrong message, and he was self-centered throughout the entire time. We have to hold him accountable for all the things he didn't do right, and we've got to turn the page. But until we're willing to take our own medicine and call out Donald Trump for what he is — and that's a large lump of fool's gold. That's all. That's all he is. And that's all he's ever been his entire career. His entire lifespan has been about being fool's gold."
"We watched it play out in the business world," Duncan added. "We watched it play out in the political world."
"The issues today are too important," he said. "I personally think Joe Biden is not the right person to lead our country for next four years. I think we have to have a conservative-minded individual that can work with the middle. But we have to find a candidate that is willing to ignore the right, the far right, the 35 percent that's going to visit Donald Trump in jail one day."
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