Well, well, well — Geoff Duncan has officially jumped ship, flipped the jersey, and traded red for blue.
The former Georgia lieutenant governor and longtime Republican has now formally joined the Democrat Party after being expelled from the GOP earlier this year. And if that wasn’t enough of a shake-up, he says he might just run for office again — this time under a whole new banner.
Now, let’s rewind. Duncan was once a rising star in Georgia Republican politics, elected to the state House in 2013 and then to the lieutenant governor’s seat in 2018. But ever since 2020, his relationship with the GOP has gone downhill — fast.
It all started when he broke with President Trump over the election, siding instead with Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in rejecting Trump’s claims about the Georgia results. That move earned him a long, slow walk to the political doghouse.
But the real breaking point? Duncan’s endorsement of Kamala Harris in 2024 — a full-on betrayal in the eyes of many state Republicans. After that, the Georgia GOP gave him the boot, making his official exit from the party seem more like a formality than a surprise.
Now, in his new interview with WABE, Duncan sounds like a man who feels politically unshackled — and very much at peace with his decision. He said Trump’s return to the presidency was his final cue that the “party of Abraham Lincoln” had become something else entirely.
Duncan also took a swing at his old party’s stance on guns, saying every debate felt like a game of “ignore the public.” As for life after crossing party lines? He claims that while some old friends stopped waving at him on the street, a new crowd started cheering him on.
And let’s not miss the hint he dropped about the future: “I have been receiving phone calls… from Democrats, independents and even some common-sense Republicans… encouraging me to look into seeking higher office.”
Translation? He’s testing the waters for a potential statewide run — maybe even governor or Senate — and betting that there’s a political appetite for someone who calls himself a consensus builder, not a chaos agent.
