Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan wants you to know why he is abandoning the GOP to join the Democratic Party.
Duncan recently penned an op-ed for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in which he explained his decision. He noted that his change of heart wasn’t caused by one single event, but was the result of a gradual evolution.
I’ll give you three guesses (the first two don’t count) as to the main reason Duncan has decided to jump ship. That’s right, folks, it was President Donald Trump. “My journey to becoming a Democrat started well before Donald Trump tried to steal the 2020 election in Georgia,” he wrote.
The former Lt. Governor said it has become impossible to hold t the “love my neighbor” principle with the current state of the Republican Party. “The most effective way to love your neighbor on a mass scale is through prudent public policy,” he said.
Imagine thinking that using the government to rescue people is the “most effective” way to love our neighbors. I’m no biblical scholar, but I don’t remember Jesus Christ ever claiming that we should outsource our love for our neighbors to the state.
Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan says he’s leaving the Republican Party shortly after being thrown out of the Republican Party 😳
— James (@swampdrainage) August 7, 2025
Your not leaving the Republican Party, you were thrown out😂😂😂😂
Supported Biden because he got things gone.👍 pic.twitter.com/Apqee2e9WM
Duncan slammed the GOP over its positions on government-run healthcare, pointing to 1.2 million uninsured Georgia residents. He rejected the argument that employment alone solves the healthcare problem for many Americans. “They have a job, just the wrong job. One that doesn’t offer health insurance or generate enough spare money each month to afford their own health insurance plan,” he wrote.
Making matters worse, an estimated 500,000 of those same neighbors wake up every day with a huge asterisk over their heads, commonly referred to as the Medicaid coverage gap. In other words, they make too much money to qualify for traditional Medicaid or ACA subsidies, but not enough to afford buying it on their own. Talk about being between a rock and a hard place!
Medicaid funding is now in shambles because of the not so “big beautiful bill” with budget cuts totaling $911 billion over the next 10 years. Any state-led expansion of Medicaid now will be complicated and expensive given the current dynamics. Nobody ever said loving your neighbor was going to be easy or cheap, just worth it.
The former official’s decision comes after the Georgia Republican Party threw him out on his ear earlier this year over his disloyalty, according to Fox News. He endorsed former Vice President Kamala Harris and allegedly tried to sabotage Republican candidates.
Scott Jennings takes to task, former Georgia LT Governor Geoff Duncan on why Republicans prefer Donald Trump and MAGA, to the former GOP UniParty: pic.twitter.com/xsW2mv19KR
— Farm Girl Carrie 👩🌾 (@FarmGirlCarrie) July 12, 2025
Duncan criticized the GOP for its recent federal budget cuts, including the “$200 billion budget cuts to SNAP” and argues for using Georgia’s $17 billion rainy-day fund to address child hunger. “We should all be looking for ways to love these kids better,” he wrote.
Not only does Duncan believe federal spending should not be cut, he has also come to the conclusion that it is perfectly acceptable to infringe on the Second Amendment.
“According to a Quinnipiac poll, 92% of our neighbors across the country want universal background checks and 83% support red flag laws in place before someone buys a gun,” he wrote. “Additionally, 74% want to raise the legal age limit to purchase a gun to 21. Sounds like the best way to love our neighbors in this instance is to pass meaningful gun legislation in Georgia that does more than nibble around the edges of a national crisis.”
Imagine thinking that loving one’s neighbor involves disarming them and making them vulnerable to evil people. Perhaps they will feel that love while some criminal robs them at gunpoint? I’m not really sure how this is supposed to work, dear reader — and neither does Duncan, for that matter.
In the end, Duncan has rejected limited government, federal spending cuts, and the Second Amendment. It sounds to me like the Democratic Party is a perfect fit for him.
