{"id":73677,"date":"2026-05-18T07:56:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/the-party-has-sailed-its-ship-ex-republican-runs-as-democrat-for-georgia-governors-seat\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T07:56:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:56:23","slug":"the-party-has-sailed-its-ship-ex-republican-runs-as-democrat-for-georgia-governors-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/the-party-has-sailed-its-ship-ex-republican-runs-as-democrat-for-georgia-governors-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The party has sailed its ship\u2019: ex-Republican runs as Democrat for Georgia governor\u2019s seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After being excommunicated from the GOP, Geoff Duncan is trying for a comeback on the Democratic ticket<\/p>\n<p>In the Georgia governor\u2019s race, Geoff Duncan\u2019s candidacy tests American politics as much as it tests his political appeal.<\/p>\n<p>The former Republican lieutenant governor of Georgia is a current Democratic<em> <\/em>candidate for governor, with former Biden official and Atlanta ex-mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms currently holding the lead in Tuesday\u2019s Democratic primary. A Republican is still favored to win, with billionaire Rick Jason up against the secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, and the lieutenant governor, Burt Jones.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/18\/geoff-duncan-ex-republican-georgia-democratic-primary-governor\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being excommunicated from the GOP, Geoff Duncan is trying for a comeback on the Democratic ticket In the Georgia governor\u2019s race, Geoff Duncan\u2019s candidacy tests American politics as much as it tests his political appeal. The former Republican lieutenant governor of Georgia is a current Democratic candidate for governor, with former Biden official and &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018The party has sailed its ship\u2019: ex-Republican runs as Democrat for Georgia governor\u2019s seat\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/the-party-has-sailed-its-ship-ex-republican-runs-as-democrat-for-georgia-governors-seat\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018The party has sailed its ship\u2019: ex-Republican runs as Democrat for Georgia governor\u2019s seat\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}