Oh, I wouldn’t want to be Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan right now. It’s never a good idea to pi$$ off the boss and that is exactly what is going to happen here.
Brian Kemp made quite the show out of cutting an ad especially for Herschel Walker. He’s trying to bring unity to the party, get things back to a saner, old school way of doing them.
Now, Kemp flips on the TV set and here’s Duncan badmouthing Walker. He’s bad mouthed Walker before, but Kemp doesn’t care about that. He wants Duncan’s vote and if possible his support of Walker here in the last days so that they can win the damn seat.
This is one of the reasons why Lake & others lost, and hopefully why Herschel will lose. Many Republicans like him still won’t vote for a Democrat, but that doesn’t mean they will vote for Donald Trump’s puppets either. Undervotes continue to hurt MAGA candidates. https://t.co/MQNEPQHKUU
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) December 1, 2022
You can see Kemp’s point. Today is the 1st of December. There’s another week to go. If Geoff Duncan is talking this way, he could depress the turn out among Republicans and that is precisely the last thing that Kemp wants. He’s done everything that he can to regain that senate seat.
Geoff Duncan is a bit of a maverick. He’s written a book on his ideas about a new GOP, basically the Reagan era tweeked here and there. They’re all in love with the Reagan era since it was the last successful Republican presidency and it keeps receding further and further. Trying to go back to it is like approaching the horizon.
Now the comical thing to me here is, didn’t Duncan know who was on the ballot before he stood in line? You mean, he stood in line for an hour and then surprise, surprise, Herschel Walker and Raphael Warnock showed up? And he was expecting whose name to be on there?
Or, was there another reason to show up? I don’t know if there are initiatives on the Georgia ballot today. If so, then Duncan should have voted on them and simply not on the senate race.
Any way you cut it, it was irresponsible of him to walk out without voting. That’s at the very least. To depress voting and to backstab Herschel Walker at this point in the proceedings is not a good move and I daresay it is not one that will endear him to his Republican colleagues.
Good luck with Reagan 2.0 after pi$$ing off the old guard. Smooth move, Geoff.
More likely, he stood in line wrestling with his conscience and when he got to the front, just couldn’t vote for the “CTE poster child”.
You give him too much credit, I think. More likely, he took one look at what passes for national leadership of his party and decided that he would do nothing to encourage the scourge that is destroying his political brand.
You know what I call that with a week left? Damn good news for the current Senator from Georgia, the Right Honorable Reverend Warnock. This kind of disunity, combined with the beginning of the holiday season and how getting Walker in will do nothing to change the Senate balance in a way to fire up the base, is likely going to depress the their turnout enough for Warnock to get the nod.