The former Lieutenant of Georgia, Governor Geoff Duncan, abandons GOP to join the Democratic Party

The former Lieutenant-Governor of Georgia Geoff Duncan announced that he was leaving the GOP and joined the Democratic Party, a decision which, according to him, was for a long time to come when he jostled the heads with the Republican Party.

Duncan, who was the Lieutenant-Governor as a Republican from 2019 to 2023, wrote Tuesday in an editorial in the Atlanta newspaper that his way to become a Democrat began before President Donald Trump tried to reverse his loss to former president Joe Biden during the 2020 presidential election, which Duncan criticized at the time.

“My trip to become a Democrat began long before Donald Trump tried to steal the 2020 elections in Georgia,” Duncan wrote in the newspaper.

“There is no date on a calendar or a line in the sand which points to the exact moment my political heart has changed, but it did it,” he continued. “My decision was centered on my daily struggle to love my neighbor, as a republican.”

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The former Lieutenant-Governor of Georgia Geoff Duncan announced that he was leaving the GOP and joined the Democratic Party. (Getty Images)

Duncan stressed several political questions that played a role in his decision to change their parties, criticizing the Republicans for their treatment of questions such as health care, Medicaid, firearms security, immigration and how to help the poor.

He said that his stay at the office taught him the best way to “love my neighbor” is through public policy. Before his time as a Lieutenant-Governor, he served in the Georgia House from 2013 to 2017. He chose not to present himself to his re-election as a lieutenant-governor in 2022.

The former Republican said that GOP legislators have argued for decades that the solution so as not to have health insurance was to have a job, but noted that most people who are not insured in the Peach state live in working households but have no insurance due to affordability or eligibility.

“So the reality is that they have a job, just bad work,” wrote Duncan. “The one who does not offer health insurance or does not generate enough spare money each month to offer their own health insurance plan.”

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Duncan was the Lieutenant-Governor of Republican from 2019 to 2023. (Getty Images)

Duncan also said the expenditure bill supported by Trump which was promulgated last month would leave the funding of Medicaid “in ruins” because it reduces hundreds of billions of dollars in the government program. He also criticized the measurement of his cuts on the additional nutrition aid program, more commonly known as food coupons, and his impact on the guarantee that children are not hungry in school.

Duncan underlined the polls showing support for firearms control measures such as universal history checks and the laws on the red flag.

He also criticized the immigration policies of the Trump administration of the Trump administration which, according to him, “have turned into a lesson in the way of not loving your neighbor”. He said that immigration policy should focus on securing the border, to expel those of the country illegally who have committed crimes, but that a way to citizenship should be created for other migrants in the United States

Duncan’s party switch comes after the Georgia Republican Party expelled him from the party earlier this year for alleged disloyalty. The resolution of the party cited his approval from Biden in the presidential election of 2024 and, once he abandoned, his approval of the former vice-president Kamala Harris, as well as alleged efforts to undermine and sabotage some Republican candidatesIncluding the current Lieutenant-Governor Burt Jones and failed the Senate candidate in 2022, Herschel Walker.

The former Republican also spoke during the National Democrat Convention in August to support Harris.