By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2025-01-07 22:18:26 | Updated at 2025-01-08 18:45:24
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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 state executive committee voted unanimously on a resolution ousting Duncan from the party on January 6.
The state party accused Duncan of breaking his oath to the Republican party and claimed he 'undermined and sabotaged' Republican candidates as he spoke out against Trump.
In the blistering resolution, they claimed his term as Georgia lieutenant governor was 'marred by embarrassment and scandal' and said he 'forfeited any claim to being even a nominal “Republican."'
It comes after Duncan was one of Trump's harshest Republican critics and actively campaigned for his opponent Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
Duncan responded to being expelled by the state GOP with a social media post where he called out the party's chairman.
'Hard to believe this is a good use of time for a party that’s only got a limited amount of time to figure out mass deportations, world peace and global tariffs. Learn how to take a victory lap not light another dumpster fire @JoshMcKoon,' he wrote on X.
Former Georgia Republican Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan was expelled from the Georgia Republican Party after he was a harsh Trump critic and backed Kamala Harris in the 2024 election
Duncan was once considered a rising star of the Georgia 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 Republican Georgia Governor Brian Kemp against calling a joint session of the Georgia Assembly to appoint their own electors in an unsuccessful effort to overturn the results of presidential election. They deemed such a move as unconstitutional.
In 2021, he announced he would not seek reelection 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 in the midterms or Senator Raphael Warnock.
Duncan's response to being expelled from the state's Republican party
Last May, he wrote an article in the state's biggest newspaper titled 'Why I'm voting for Biden and other Republicans should, too.'
In it, he argued Trump disqualified himself 'through his conduct and his character' and claimed the now president-elect 'fanned the flames of unfounded conspiracy theories that led to the horrific events of Jan. 6, 2021.'
He went on to actively campaign for the Democratic presidential ticket and even delivered a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last August.
'Let me be clear to my Republican friends at home watching: If you vote for Kamala Harris in 2024, you’re not a Democrat, you’re a patriot,' he declared before thousands of Democrats in attendance and millions viewing the convention on television.
He also called the current Republican party a 'cult worshipping a felonist thug.'
Duncan speaking at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on August 21, 2024
Duncan leaving the courthouse on August 14, 2023 after testifying before a grand jury probing whether Trump illegally tried to overturn the state's 2020 election results
On Monday, the Georgia Republican Party not only expelled Duncan but banned him from qualifying as a candidate of the state party.
It also 'expunged' his nomination as Republican candidate for lieutenant governor and as a Georgia House candidate.
It also demanded Duncan 'cease calling himself a "Republican" or using his false claim of being a “Republican” for personal profit' and banned him from all Georgia Republican Party property.
