Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R) was sitting in his car in a parking lot last month when he received a call from an unlikely number: Biden. Duncan — a lifelong Republican who has never voted for a Democrat in his life — had just formally endorsed the incumbent. The Hill’s Amie Parnes reports Biden’s call to the former lieutenant governor signals the importance of such endorsements as he tries to win independents and undecided voters to his side ahead of November.
In the coming months, the campaign will lean heavily on Duncan, and figures including former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), who endorsed Biden Wednesday. Kinzinger’s endorsement is part of a larger ramp-up of big names expected to become regular faces for the president in television ads and on the stump ahead of and through the Democratic National Convention.
“This election is about the 10 percent who will either sit on the couch or get out and vote,” Duncan said in an interview with The Hill. “I want to do anything I can do to beat Donald Trump so I can get my Republican Party back. If it takes campaigning for Joe Biden, and doing commercials and speeches, I’m ready to take my medicine and get my party back.”
Adam Kinzinger’s voting record should clarify his position. He carried a lifetime voting record of 48% Constitutionally correct.
