Geoff Duncan is one of several high-profile Republicans who are withholding their support from the former president.
. When asked why other Republicans should also support Biden over Trump this November, Duncan stated that Trump is not the future of the Republican Party, and that he did not represent the party when looking back at his presidency.
“Donald Trump’s a fake Republican, he’s proven that over and over and over again,” Duncan said on CNN. “He simply wants the position of president to be powerful, and he’s willing to lie, cheat, and steal for it. And if we’re going to fix this party and go forward, the party that is conservative but not crazy and angry, we‘ve got to do it without Donald Trump.
Duncan explained that many Republican voters are frustrated with Trump and the control he has over the party, and argued that these voters need to “take our medicine” to move on from the former president. “And it’s painful, it hurts, it sometimes maybe doesn‘t seem like it makes sense, but if we‘re going to heal, we‘ve got to move past Donald Trump,” Duncan said. “He‘s taking us to the bottom of the ocean and some of us don‘t even realize it.”, Trump’s former vice president and former 2024 presidential candidate, being one of them.
Should Trump become the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential nominee, it would set the stage for a rematch between him and Biden, the two candidates for their respective parties in 2020. Recent polling has indicated that
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