Former Georgia Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan has been formally expelled from the state Republican Party after being a harsh critic of President-elect Donald Trump during the 2024 campaign season.
The Georgia Republican Party’s executive committee voted unanimously on January 6 on a resolution to expel Duncan from the party.
The state party accused Duncan of breaking his oath to the Republican Party, claiming he “undermined and sabotaged” Republican candidates while speaking out against Trump.
In the blistering resolution, they claimed that his tenure as Georgia’s lieutenant governor was “marred by shame and scandal” and that he “forfeited any claim to even a nominal ‘Republican’.”
It comes after Duncan was one of Trump’s fiercest Republican critics and actively campaigned for his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, during the 2024 election.
Duncan responded to his expulsion by the state GOP with a social media post calling out the party’s chairman.
“Hard to believe this is a good use of time for a party that has a limited amount of time to figure out mass deportations, world peace and global tariffs. Learn how to take a victory lap and not start another dumpster fire @JoshMcKoon,” he wrote on X.
Former Republican Lieutenant Governor of Georgia Geoff Duncan was expelled from the Georgia Republican Party after being a harsh Trump critic and supporting Kamala Harris in the 2024 election
Duncan was once considered a rising star of Georgia’s Republican Party.
He served as lieutenant governor from 2019 to 2023, after serving in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2013 to 2017.
In December 2020, Duncan sided with Georgia’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp against convening a joint session of the Georgia Assembly to appoint their own electors in a failed attempt to overturn the results of the presidential election. They considered such a move unconstitutional.
In 2021, he announced he would not seek re-election for a second term as he pushed back on false claims of election fraud in Georgia.
The following year, he said he did not vote for Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker or Senator Raphael Warnock in the midterm elections.
Duncan’s response to his expulsion from the state’s Republican party
Last May, he wrote an article in the state’s largest newspaper titled “Why I’m Voting for Biden and Other Republicans Should Do Too.”
In it, he argued that Trump disqualified himself “by his conduct and character” and claimed that the now president-elect “has fanned the flames of baseless conspiracy theories that led to the horrific events of January 6, 2021.”
He then actively campaigned for the Democratic presidential ticket and even gave a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last August.
“Let me be clear to my Republican friends watching at home: If you vote for Kamala Harris in 2024, you are not a Democrat, you are a patriot,” he declared before thousands of Democrats in attendance and millions watching the convention. television.
He also called the current Republican Party a “cult that worships a criminal.”
Duncan speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on August 21, 2024
Duncan left the courthouse on August 14, 2023, after testifying before a grand jury investigating whether Trump illegally tried to overturn the state’s 2020 election results
On Monday, the Georgia Republican Party not only expelled Duncan but also banned him from running as a candidate for the state party.
It also “cancelled” his nomination as the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor and as a candidate for the Georgia House.
It also demanded that Duncan stop calling himself a “Republican.” he used his false claim that he was a “Republican” for personal gain and banned him from all property owned by the Republican Party of Georgia.