In what is definitely highest-profile and possibly the fastest and most complete partisan transformation of a political career since 2017, ex-Republican former Georgia Lt Governor Geoff Duncan on Tuesday launched his bid for the Peach State’s top office as a Democrat, setting up a possible matchup with his successor, fake Trump 2020 elector and current Lt Gov Burt Jones.
Good on Geoff Duncan for doing what pretty much nobody else at such a high level of Republican politics has had the balls to do. There could and should have been so many more campaigns like this over the last decade and only now in goddamned 2025 is there ONE notable former Republican-turned-Dem actually running for a major statewide office. Whether he can actually pull off a Dem primary win when former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has already declared is a question for Georgia politics geeks, but simply launching a bid on the other team is significant on its own.