Former Georgia GOP Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan Says He’s Voting For Biden & Not ‘Horrible Human Being’ Trump

Former Georgia Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan said he would vote for President Joe Biden instead of former President Donald Trump in the 2024 election.

Duncan explained his decision in an op-ed he wrote for The Atlanta-Journal Constitution titled, “Geoff Duncan: Why I’m voting for Biden and other Republicans should, too.”

In his op-ed, he stated how it was “disappointing to watch an increasing number of Republicans fall in line behind former president Donald Trump,” including “some of his fiercest detractors.” 

He mentioned detractors such as “U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu and former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr, who raised eyebrows during a recent interview by vowing to support the Republican ticket.”

“Yes, elections are a binary choice,” Duncan admitted. “Yes, serious questions linger about President Biden’s ability to serve until the age of 86. His progressive policies aren’t to conservatives’ liking.”

“But the GOP will never rebuild until we move on from the Trump era, leaving conservative (but not angry) Republicans like me no choice but to pull the lever for Biden,” he then argued. “At the same time, we should work to elect GOP congressional majorities to block his second-term legislative agenda and provide a check and balance.”

“The alternative is another term of Trump, a man who has disqualified himself through his conduct and his character,” Duncan stated. “The headlines are ablaze with his hush-money trial over allegations of improper record-keeping for payments to conceal an affair with an adult-film star.”

The Georgia lieutenant governor added, “The last year of the Trump presidency was hardly a time of tranquility.”

He recounted, “His handling of the pandemic was erratic, including at one point musing about consuming disinfectants.”

He then claimed that the former president “has shown us who he is” and that people “should believe him.”

“To think he is going to change at the age of 77 is beyond improbable,” Duncan argued. “Yet each new day increases the possibility of a second Trump presidency,” he shared. “Voters’ memories are short.”

He then mentioned a CNN survey showing “a majority (55%) of all Americans view Trump’s presidency as a success, while 44% see it as a failure. Compare that with Biden, whom only 39% call a success compared with 61% who think his term has been a failure.”

Duncan stated that the GOP cannot start healing “with Trump as president (and that’s aside from the untold damage that potentially awaits our country).”

He also mentioned that he “belonged to the GOP my entire life,” and Trump did not.

“This November, I am voting for a decent person I disagree with on policy over a criminal defendant without a moral compass,” the ex-lieutenant governor declared.

Duncan was in office during Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. The former president is now facing criminal charges for his plot. 

During a CNN interview with the attorney Laura Coates, Duncan also discussed his choice to vote for Biden over Trump.

“Donald Trump’s not a Republican,” he stated. “He doesn’t represent our brand. He doesn’t represent our future. He’s a horrible human being at this point, we’re watching that play out hour by hour in the courtroom.”

“And we’ve been jamming this square peg into a round hole long enough,” he claimed. “And it’s time to turn the page. It’s time to move on. If we’re going to heal as a party and truly get back to doing the things that we should do – and that’s be conservative but not angry or crazy or liars – we should turn the page immediately from Donald Trump.”

“And so that’s really what I’m calling for,” the lieutenant governor mentioned.

In April 2021, Duncan stated in an interview that the former New York City Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, created great momentum behind restrictive voting laws passed in majority-Republican state legislatures with his false stories of election fraud.