Geoff Duncan says that Trump’s criticism validates his GOP at Dem Switch

EXCLUSIVE – Former Lieutenant-Governor of Georgia, Geoff Duncan, said that attacks on the social networks by President Donald Trump criticizing his transition from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party validates his major change in political affiliations.

“The former lieutenant of Lieutenant-Governor Geoff Duncan, from Georgia, is a total loser,” Trump wrote early on his social platform Truth on Friday.

The president accused that Duncan could “have ever been able to do anything, everything he has ever done was complaining. We no longer wanted him in the Republican Party, so I am told that he became a Democrat. Good GEOFF riddle. You don’t even have any chance !!!”

Asked about criticism, Duncan told Fox News Digital in an exclusive national interview a few hours later: “I think it argues for me that the republican party no longer wants to love their neighbor. There is nothing in this tweet or the truth about the social post or whatever shows a kind of attitude of which I want to be part.”

Old LT. Gov. Geoff Duncan abandons the GOP to join the Democratic Party

Former Republican lieutenant Geoff Duncan, from Georgia, changed parties this week and has become a democrat. (Getty Images)

“So I wish him the best chances. I hope he understands how to manage this country better than it is now for the next two years. But I am proud of not being a republican, especially with him at the forefront of the spear,” said Duncan.

By announcing his decision, Duncan quoted several political questions which played a role in his decision to change the parties, including health care, Medicaid, firearms, immigration and poverty.

He wrote that his time in the office taught him the best way to “love my neighbor” is through public policy.

Duncan told Fox News: “I find it easier to love my neighbor as a democrat, this is not a perfect landing point, but it gives me a better opportunity every day when I wake up to love my neighbor.”

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Duncan, a former head of health care and baseball player for minor leagues, served the Georgia legislature for four years before running and winning the elections as a lieutenant-governor in 2018. He decided not to be re-elected in 2022.

After leaving his duties, Duncan – which was a vocal critic of the GOP of the repeated efforts of Trump to reverse the defeat of the November 2020 elections in Razor, in November 2020 in the battlefield, former president Joe Biden – worked towards what he said “healed and reimbursed a republican party which is damaged but not destroyed”.

The Lieutenant-Governor of the Georgia of the time, Geoff Duncan, gives an address to the New Hampshire Institute of Politics on October 20, 2021 in Manchester, New Hampshire. (Paul Steinhauser – Fox News)

Duncan approved Biden in the 2024 presidential race and then supported vice-president Kamala Harris after replacing Biden at the top of the Democrats ticket in 2024. Duncan spoke in a high-level speech to the National Democrat Convention in Chicago last August.

The Georgia Republican Party expelled it from the GOP earlier this year.

“None of the parties leaves the park. You don’t have to look further than statistics to see that the Republicans have their problems. Democrats certainly have their problems,” Duncan told Fox News. “I have already tried this reform on the republican side, and Donald Trump sucked the life and the future of the Republican Party, in my opinion.”

The former boss of Duncan, the Republican Governor Brian Kemp de Georgie, is limited in the long term and cannot request his re -election next year. Duncan confirmed to Fox News that he was considering a 2026 race for the governor.

“My family and I are certainly not ready to make a big decision here, at the moment. But this is something that we are considering for sure. I mean, my phone continued to ring for months, Democrats, independents and even people of the right who want us to consider it,” said Duncan.

Asked about his calendar, Duncan said that “2026 arrives as a freight train. And certainly, if it is a decision with which we are going ahead, it will have to be inside, in a few months.”

Duncan stressed that “if the Democrats, especially in Georgia, wanted to succeed, they will have to live in the middle and not on the fringes. They must have a spleen of moderate candidates who are able to use common sense to provide their leadership. And I think there is a gravitational traction in this direction.”

Nearly half a dozen Democrats in Georgia have already launched campaigns of governor, including the former mayor of Atlanta, Keisha launches Bottoms, who then worked in the Biden administration.

Pouil the two main republicans who present themselves to the post of governor, Lieutenant-Governor Burt Jones and the Attorney General Chris Carr, Duncan said: “I hope we can sit down and find a democratic candidate who can win the governor and not allow a Governor Trump to present himself for four years in the state, because that is exactly what happens.”

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“The Republican slate will be dominated by anyone who approves Donald Trump, and this person will be a sock puppet for Donald Trump,” said Duncan. “And no Georgian wants this.

Looking at the elections of next year, when Georgia is again under the national spotlight, Duncan said that “Georgia will continue to be the political center of the universe, while we are looking at the Senate in shape. While we look at the race of this governor.

Landon Mion of Fox News contributed to this report.