{"id":7550,"date":"2025-08-27T22:37:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T22:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/?p=7550"},"modified":"2025-08-27T22:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T22:38:11","slug":"just-in-former-republican-gov-officially-joins-the-democrat-party-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/?p=7550","title":{"rendered":"JUST IN \/ Former Republican Gov. Officially Joins the Democrat Party !!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Short answer: yes\u2014former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan publicly announced he\u2019s now a Democrat. He made it official in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution op-ed on Aug. 5, 2025, saying his shift is rooted in faith (\u201clove thy neighbor\u201d) and policy disagreements with today\u2019s GOP.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Georgia doesn\u2019t register voters by party, but Duncan also told the AJC he no longer wants to be associated with the GOP; the paper\u2019s news write-up summarized the switch and context.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This caps a years-long break: as lieutenant governor he rejected Trump\u2019s false fraud claims in 2020, later endorsed the Democratic ticket in 2024, and was formally expelled by Georgia Republicans earlier this year.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So the headline claim (\u201che\u2019s now a Democrat\u201d) is accurate; the rest\u2014about motives or \u201celection integrity\u201d\u2014is opinion. The record shows he opposed efforts to overturn Georgia\u2019s 2020 results and says his move reflects policy and values, not a sudden pivot.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1721293\" data-uid=\"039e3\">\n<div id=\"mgw1721293_039e3\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"mgbox\">\n<div class=\"mgheader\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Short answer: yes\u2014former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan publicly announced he\u2019s now a Democrat. He made it official in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution op-ed on Aug. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/?p=7550\" title=\"JUST IN \/ Former Republican Gov. Officially Joins the Democrat Party !!\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7553,"href":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550\/revisions\/7553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}