Georgia Lt. Gov. fires back at Trump’s false voter fraud claims: ‘We’re better than this’

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Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R) on Tuesday pushed back against President Donald Trump’s push to overturn the results of the presidential election as he warned that the Republican Party now runs the risk of “alienating voters” with its continued spread of false allegations of widespread voter fraud.

The Republican lieutenant governor has emerged as a high-profile figure in Trump’s post-election legal war due to his defense of Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) and the state’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, both of whom defended the state’s handling of the election and the outcome of the election.

On Monday evening, Duncan appeared on CNN where he expressed concern about ” the amount of misinformation that continues to fly around,” according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Continue reading.