Trump responds to former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan’s swap from GOP to Dem

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President Donald Trump shared his ideas on Georgia's former Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan swapping political events after the state's GOP expelled him earlier this 12 months for disloyalty to the occasion.

Duncan, an open critic of the president in recent times, wrote an op-ed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Tuesday stating that he was becoming a member of the Democratic Occasion after serving as Georgia's lieutenant governor from 2019 to 2023 as a Republican.

Trump didn't mince phrases in a Fact Social publish early Friday morning, calling Duncan a "complete loser" and telling him "good riddance."

"Failed former Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan, of Georgia, is a complete loser. Was by no means in a position to get something completed, all he ever did was complain. We didn’t need him within the Republican Occasion any longer, so I’m advised he grew to become a Democrat," Trump wrote. "Good riddance Geoff. You don’t also have a probability!!!"

FORMER GEORGIA LT. GOV. GEOFF DUNCAN ABANDONS GOP TO JOIN DEMOCRATIC PARTY

President Donald Trump known as Geoff Duncan, expelled Republican and former Lt. Gov. of Georgia, a "complete loser" on Friday after the as soon as GOP chief introduced he's becoming a member of the Democratic Occasion. (AP Picture/Alex Brandon)

Trump's current publish about Duncan isn't the one time he has expressed dislike for the expelled Republican.

On Aug. 3, 2024, Trump known as for Duncan, whom he described as a "bum," to be thrown out of the Georgia GOP in one among three posts that day knocking the previous state chief.

"He's a complete light-weight, and went to work at a low wage for Pretend Information CNN. His sole operate is to knock Donald J. Trump," Trump wrote, partially. "Georgia ought to throw this ‘bum’ out of the Occasion. He's unelectable and never revered by anybody, apart from your light-weight Governor, Brian Kemp who, if it wasn’t for me, would have by no means been Governor…."

GEORGIA GOP EXPELS FORMER LT. GOV. GEOFF DUNCAN FROM PARTY, CITING ALLEGED DISLOYALTY

Georgia's former Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, who was expelled from the state's Republican Occasion, mentioned he's becoming a member of the Democratic Occasion. (Getty Pictures)

Duncan wrote in his op-ed that his determination to turn into a Democrat began brewing earlier than Trump's response to his loss within the 2020 presidential election and the occasions on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. He said coverage disagreements additionally impacted his determination to swap.

"There’s no date on a calendar or line within the sand that factors to the precise second in time my political coronary heart modified, nevertheless it has," he continued. "My determination was centered round my day by day wrestle to like my neighbor, as a Republican."

He was expelled from the Georgia Republican Occasion in January after he endorsed former President Joe Biden throughout his re-election marketing campaign in 2024 after which endorsed former Vice President Kamala Harris when Biden dropped out.

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Duncan, who's a CNN contributor, was additionally advised by Georgia GOP Chair Josh McKoon to cease utilizing his Republican credentials in public and media appearances following his expulsion from the occasion.