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Duncan announced he would run for lieutenant governor of Georgia on April 10, 2017. [15] He resigned from the Georgia House in September 2017 to focus on running for lieutenant governor in 2018. [16] [17] He was described as an "underdog" candidate against David Shafer, who had served as president pro tempore of the Georgia State Senate. [18]
The lieutenant governor of Georgia is a constitutional officer of the State of Georgia, elected to a four-year term by popular vote. Unlike in some other U.S. states, the lieutenant governor is elected on a separate ticket from the governor of Georgia. Constitutionally, the lieutenant governor's primary job is to serve as president of Georgia's ...
Georgia's lieutenant governor office does not have the same two-term limit as the governorship, so Cagle ran for and won a third term as lieutenant governor in 2014. He ran unopposed in the Republican primary and defeated former State Senator and DeKalb County Commissioner Connie Stokes in the general election. Cagle won re-election with 58% of ...
Geoff Duncan, the outgoing Republican Lt. Governor of Georgia, said on Wednesday morning that he waited in line for an hour to cast his ballot in Georgia’s Senate runoff race, but when he ...
Mr Duncan was lieutenant governor of Georgia between 2019 and 2023, during the period when Mr Trump allegedly tried to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election in the state. Mr Trump is facing 10 ...
The 2022 Georgia lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 2022, to elect the lieutenant governor of the U.S. state of Georgia. It coincided with various other statewide elections, including for U.S. Senate, U.S. House, and Governor of Georgia. Georgia is one of 21 states that elects its lieutenant governor separately from its ...
Former Georgia Republican Lt. Gov. and CNN contributor Geoff Duncan on Monday said he will vote for President Joe Biden in November, arguing former President Donald Trump “has disqualified ...
The lieutenant governor is the second-highest-ranking government official in 45 of the 50 U.S. states and four of the five territories.In those states and territories, the lieutenant governor is the first in the line of succession in case of a vacancy in the office of governor (Note: in Massachusetts and West Virginia, the lieutenant governor only assumes powers and duties as acting governor ...