Geoff Duncan, the former Republican lieutenant governor of Georgia, is not holding back his feelings about his party's continued devotion to former President Donald Trump.
In an interview with the Atlanta Journal Constitution conducted in the wake of multiple one-time Trump allies copping to guilty pleas in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' sprawling racketeering case, questioned what Republicans were still doing loyally serving the former president.
Duncan expressed particular bewilderment that the party rushed to obey Trump when he came out against the speakership bid of Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), whose candidacy collapsed mere hours after he was named speaker designate.
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"Has there ever been a more embarrassing moment in time to be a Republican?” he said. “It’s so hard to watch so many friends in the GOP not realize what a direct threat to this country Donald Trump has become.”
Duncan has been critical of Trump ever since the former president's efforts to overturn his 2020 defeat in Georgia led to multiple death threats leveled against election workers and local officials.
Trump also infamously called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and asked him to "find" the nearly 12,000 votes that he would need to overturn Biden's victory.
