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Georgia's GOP lieutenant governor admits he didn't vote for Herschel Walker [1]
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Date: 2022-12-02
Duncan, who has repeatedly spoken out against Trump’s Big Lie about the 2020 election, did not seek reelection . When he announced his decision not to run in May 2021, Duncan said he wanted to work instead on “healing and rebuilding the Republican Party” and “build out an organization called GOP 2.0 on a national level.”
Duncan's successor as lieutenant governor will be a Trump-backed candidate, Burt Jones , who supported Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia. Jones is under criminal investigation by both the Justice Department and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for participating in the fake electors scheme.
Walker, who formerly played in the United States Football League (USFL) for Trump’s New Jersey Generals, won the Republican primary after receiving Trump’s endorsement. Trump has stayed out of Georgia during the runoff campaign.
In the Nov. 8 election, about 200,000 Georgians cast ballots for incumbent GOP Gov. Brian Kemp and Warnock. Kemp has thrown the full backing of his political machine behind Walker at the request of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Duncan said Walker had done nothing since Nov. 8 to win over his vote or those of thousands of other Georgia Republicans who share his view. At the least, Duncan said, Walker could have pushed back on Trump’s “whole fake election narrative” and not hit “the mute button” when it came to denouncing the dinner meeting Trump held at Mar-a-Lago with white supremacist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes. “Those were ways to convince the suburbs that you were a serious player that didn’t want to be Donald Trump’s puppet,” Duncan said.
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