Georgia Republican blown away by Kamala Harris rally: 'Felt like a national championship'
Georgia's Republican former lieutenant governor was blown away by his first Democratic campaign rally after endorsing Kamala Harris.
Geoff Duncan, who announced that he was backing the vice president this week despite being a lifelong Republican, told CNN that the energy at Tuesday night's Atlanta rally was electrifying, and he urged his fellow conservatives to help defeat Donald Trump in November.
"We've got to do better than Donald Trump," Duncan said. As a lifelong conservative, I got to watch a fake Republican sit in the White House for four years and then almost destroy this country, and so we've just got to do better. If you're a common sense Republican, you've already lost. Donald Trump is not the vehicle to success with conservative values, and certainly the Democrats don't align with us on policies verbatim. So let's go take the next four years, heal and rebuild our party, and let's pick somebody that's not going to wreck the car like Donald Trump is."
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"There's no way to ignore this momentum that's going on," Duncan added. "Yesterday was unbelievable, right? It almost felt like a national championship inside that arena with the energy."
Duncan was a pitcher at Georgia Tech and spent six seasons in the minor leagues before a shoulder injury ended his career, and he compared his attendance at a Democratic rally to being traded from the New York Yankees to the rival Boston Red Sox.
"I got to walk into a room full of old friends and familiar faces that I served with at the Georgia Capitol," he said. "They're good people in that room and we all don't agree on the exact definition of how to solve the world's problems, but if we all sit at the same table, and this renewed energy – this country is so thirsty for a genuine leader, right? Just thirsty, and I think the hard part for me is if Republicans would have done something similar other than Donald Trump, we would have had that same type of energy that authentic-ness to it, but we didn't."
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