Republican former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, who served under Gov. Brian Kemp for one term from 2019-2023, said Monday he will be backing President Joe Biden in November’s election and doesn’t understand why so many in the GOP stand behind Donald Trump.

“The GOP will never rebuild until we move on from the Trump era, leaving conservative [but not angry] Republicans like me no choice but to pull the lever for Biden,” Duncan wrote in an op-ed for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “At the same time, we should work to elect GOP congressional majorities to block his second-term legislative agenda and provide a check and balance.”

Duncan, who declined to run for re-election with Kemp in 2022, said Trump “has disqualified himself through his conduct and his character” and that he “fanned the flames of unfounded conspiracy theories that led to the horrific events of Jan. 6, 2021.”

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