Clean cut and perma-tanned, the affable former Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan could sooner pass for a suburban golf pro than the state’s latest political outcast.

But Duncan’s fast Republican rise came to a crashing halt in 2020 when he refused to go along with President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 elections in Georgia.

Fast forward five years, and Duncan is serving up another twist — a party change and a decision to run for Georgia governor when Democrats in the state so unpopular, their best chance to win in 2026 might just be with a candidate who isn’t a Democrat at all.

The beginning of the end between Duncan and the GOP came in 2020 when, as the state’s second-in-command, he said there was “not one shred of evidence” to support Trump’s false claims that the election had been

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