Geoff Duncan, the former lieutenant governor of Georgia, was a guest on Kaitlin Collins' show last night, talking about the latest indictments and Trump's effect on the GOP.
"Well, I don't know what Donald Trump's game is. I've stopped guessing what his game is. It certainly was uncalled for. If I was one of his attorneys, I can't imagine they would enjoy waking up to see what he sent my direction today," he said, referring to a Trump post on Truth Social.
"It doesn't make the situation any easier. This makes the math continuing to be impossible if you want to win as a Republican, right? You can throw red meat to the crowd and get 35, 40, maybe 50% of Republicans to kind of sort of support you. But you lose the game when you jump in and try to beat a Democrat like Joe Biden.
"This should be the easiest election for us to win in decades, maybe in a century, but yet we can't even break the strings of gravity because Donald Trump is the wrong candidate. Just like Herschel Walker was the wrong candidate. This is so easy to see coming. We can't just try to win primaries. We've got to win generals."
"Do you believe this is a moment that crystallizes that for your party? It doesn't seem like the others have, at least not for the Republican primary voters," Collins said.
"This one feels different, right?" he said.
"I'm anxious to see the indictment. It sounds like there's ten-plus folks that are going to be mentioned in this indictment. I think there's going to be a lot of story behind that, who got indicted, who didn't get indicted, who maybe cut a deal, what crimes. There's going to be a lot to be had here. This feels different.
"You know, Donald Trump did his most damage in Georgia. He sucked the soul out of the Republican party here. He sucked the morality out of the Republican party, the fiscal responsibility out of the Republican party. He sucked our winning percentage out of the Republican party. He's taken everything from us, and it's our turn to take it back. It's our turn to face elections based on the things we think are important.
"This is the prime spot to take Joe Biden to the woodshed, and call him out for not running the border right, not protecting our communities, not putting our best foot forward internationally. These are our moments in time. But if we make this about the three-ring circus that is Donald Trump, we will lose, lose and lose again."
Well, Geoff, it seems to me that voters don't like Republican policies like anti-abortion laws, book bans, and getting rid of Social Security. But if you think it'll put your party back on top? Well, you do you.
