ATLANTA, Ga. - Citing a “daily struggle to love my neighbor, as a Republican,” former Georgia GOP Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan announced this week he has officially become a Democrat.
In a widely circulated op-ed in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Duncan continued his ongoing criticism of President Donald Trump’s domestic and international policies, specifically his administration’s immigration enforcement policies.
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Duncan’s change of party comes in a state that Trump lost in 2020 by only a few thousand votes, and one that he handily returned to the GOP column in 2024 on his way to an