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Geoff Duncan knew “The Beast” from the inside. Ahead of the 2020 election he rode in the president’s aptly named limousine whenever Donald Trump came to Atlanta. But when Mr Trump claimed that Georgia’s election was rigged, Mr Duncan, then the state’s lieutenant-governor, rebutted him. Death threats soon arrived from Trump loyalists. Mr Duncan chose not to run for re-election after watching the former president “hijack the conservative agenda” in the Georgia legislature and “sidetrack multiple sessions” by infecting lawmakers with his baseless vote-fraud obsessions.
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