


The Georgia Republican Party has expelled former Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan from the party for repeatedly endorsing Democrats.
Mr. Duncan successively endorsed both President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, going even farther than an endorsement by appearing on cable talk shows and giving public speeches for her on the campaign stump.
“By his pattern of conduct, Duncan has forfeited any claim to being even a nominal ‘Republican,’” stated the state party’s executive committee in its resolution, which passed unanimously.
The resolution also accused Mr. Duncan of working against the 2022 candidacies of Republicans Burt Jones for lieutenant governor and Herschel Walker for the U.S. Senate.
Mr. Duncan’s falling out with the party began when he, along with Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, refused to support Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud in his 2020 defeat in the state.
Mr. Duncan then became a vocal and public critic of Mr. Trump and the MAGA movement and declined to run for re-election in 2022.
However, Mr. Kemp and Mr. Raffensperger stayed in the party, decisively won re-election in 2022, and helped deliver the state to Mr. Trump in 2024.
According to the resolution, Mr. Duncan is “banned from all property owned or leased by the Georgia Republican Party and all events held by or under the authority of the Georgia Republican Party.”
He also cannot run for elected office as a Republican.
Mr. Duncan took to social media Tuesday to tell state party chairman Josh McKoon that this resolution was just silly posturing.
“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.
• Victor Morton can be reached at vmorton@washingtontimes.com.