Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan switches from Republican to Democrat

Former Georgia Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan takes questions from reporters after a press conference at the Georgia State Capitol on June 26, 2024. (Matthew Pearson/WABE)

Georgia’s former Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan grew up in a Republican household, in the deep-South, heavily-red Forsyth County.

“That was the lens I looked through,” Duncan tells WABE’s “Morning Edition,” just hours after announcing that it’s official: he is now a Democrat.

“As I got elected starting in 2013 as a state representative, and then as lieutenant governor, it just became so hard at times to try to figure out the right way to do the right thing, as a Republican,” Duncan tells WABE’s ‘Morning Edition.’