{"id":133582,"date":"2024-08-06T11:56:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T11:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=133582"},"modified":"2024-08-06T11:56:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T11:56:11","slug":"georgia-republicans-seek-to-ban-geoff-duncan-from-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=133582","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Georgia Republicans Seek to Ban Geoff Duncan from Party&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/politicalwire.com\/2024\/08\/02\/georgia-republicans-seek-to-ban-geoff-duncan-from-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Political Wire<\/a>: &#8220;Georgia Republican party chair Josh McKoon sent former Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/joshmckoon\/status\/1819349219448139794?s=46&amp;t=MsofUVh4RTEBnTn0bpQMtQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an open letter<\/a>&nbsp;demanding that he \u201ccease referring to yourself as a Republican\u201d and said the party would take actions to \u201cprotect the Republican brand\u201d from his influence, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/politics\/the-georgia-republican-party-wants-to-ban-geoff-duncan-from-running-for-office-as-a-republican\/E7KNBV42JJCV3HXU4BUM46SSN4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Atlanta Journal Constitution<\/a>&nbsp;reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe one-term former lieutenant governor has long been a vocal Donald Trump critic, but Duncan has more recently emerged as a forceful GOP supporter of Harris. He\u2019s also said he\u2019s open to speaking on her behalf at the Democratic National Convention this month.\u201c&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Wire: &#8220;Georgia Republican party chair Josh McKoon sent former Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R)&nbsp;an open letter&nbsp;demanding that he \u201ccease referring to yourself as a Republican\u201d and said the party would take actions to \u201cprotect the Republican brand\u201d from his influence, the&nbsp;Atlanta Journal Constitution&nbsp;reports. \u201cThe one-term former lieutenant governor has long been a vocal Donald&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133583,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133582\/revisions\/133583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}