Georgia Republican condemns GOP for staying mum as Trump ‘throws sucker punches’ at Kemp

Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R) on Sunday criticized his party for staying silent as former President Trump attacks conservative stalwarts like Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger – who resisted Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election in their state of Georgia.

“We have done more for the conservative cause than Donald Trump has ever done,” Duncan said on CNN’s “State of the Union” about Kemp, Raffensperger and himself. “This is now starting to not be Donald Trump's problem. This is starting to be the Republican Party's problem.”

“We have to call him out for what he is. He's a felonist thug who walks down the street and throws sucker punches at people like Brian Kemp, like African American journalists, like John McCain, and the list goes on and on and on again,” Duncan continued.

“And the Republican Party is content sitting across the street watching it happen and not calling them out, not jumping into that fight and saying, ‘You are wrong for us,’” he said.

Duncan, who has said he's voting for Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024, thinks Trump will lose the election in November and force the GOP to reexamine its platform and priorities.

“This 10 percent in the middle – which now feels like it's growing to be bigger than 10 percent in the middle that's going to decide this election – are paying attention, and I've never seen a human be more self-destructive than Donald Trump the last two weeks,” Duncan said.

“He continues to do it over and over and over again, and when he loses, and the Republican Party finally catches their breath and wakes up and says, ‘We need a GOP 2.0,’ there'll be some people around, but it's going to take time to fix.”

“My hope is that Kamala Harris ends up being a blank canvas for us to be able to help work these new policies and new ideas into place. That's the risk I'm taking as a Republican voting for Kamala Harris.”