Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R) on Sunday criticized his party for remaining silent as former President Trump attacks conservative advocates like Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger – who resisted Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 elections in his state of Georgia.
“We’ve done more for the conservative cause than Donald Trump ever did,” Duncan said on CNN’s “State of the Union” about Kemp, Raffensperger and himself. “This is now starting to not be Donald Trump’s problem. This is starting to be a Republican Party problem.”
“We have to call him for what he is. He is a criminal thug who walks down the street and punches people like Brian Kemp, like African-American journalists, like John McCain, and the list goes on,” Duncan continued.
“And the Republican Party is content to sit on the other side of the street and watch this happen and not call them out, not get into this fight and say, ‘You guys are wrong for us,’” he said.
Duncan, who has said he will vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024, thinks Trump will lose the election in November and force the Republican Party to reexamine its platform and priorities.
“That 10% in the middle – which now appears to be growing to be bigger than the 10% in the middle that will decide this election – is paying attention, and I have never seen a human being more self-destructive than Donald Trump. the last two weeks,” Duncan said.
“He keeps doing this over and over, and when he loses, and the Republican Party finally catches its breath, wakes up and says, ‘We need a GOP 2.0,’ there will be some people around, but it’s going to take time to fix.
“My hope is that Kamala Harris ends up being a blank canvas so that we can help implement these new policies and new ideas. That’s the risk I take as a Republican who votes for Kamala Harris.”
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