well, obviously i agree with geoff duncan. look, i'm in the business of defeating donald trump and last night made that harder. there's just no, no two ways about it. but obviously the other thing that i do, what i'm trying to understand and make sense of politics as i immediately do a focus group and so we did a focus group this morning with two time trump voters who are out on trump, people who did not want to vote for him again and some of them had been leading biden prior to last night's debate but after the debate, this morning, they told us that they just didn't think they could get there on biden and again, i will say though they were very clear about trump still one of the things you heard from older voters in the focus group is that trump is a liar. trump is a bad person. they don't want to vote for trump. there was nothing about last night in trump's performance that brought these voters who don't like trump back to him. the problem hello ms is that those voters needed to be persuaded to vote for joe biden, not just

and i think there's a lot of issues where people like geoff duncan was talking about issues of morality can say, this goes outside partisanship. right now, we're talking about the rise of the authoritarian american right? and the context of world war ii, i was really happy to see an a bad written by senate or senate minority leader mitch mcconnell yesterday in the new york times talking about quote, some vocal corners of the american right are trying to resurrect the discredited brand, a pre-war isolationism, and deny that basic value of the alliance system that has kept the pre-war piece. those are pretty strong words for mitch mcconnell. i'm trying to put distance between this isolationists authoritarian fringe of the party and saying this is outside of tradition, this does not keep america safe. and so i think it's again, extremely hard for people to say. i'm giving up in the republican party. but you see a lot of opportunities for a agreement when these that comes to moral issues and protecting the western alliance. >> and yet, mcconnell has said he is supporting the former presiden

guilty well, joining me now, click commentator for cnn and former georgia lieutenant governor geoff duncan, remember that he is dorsey joe biden, four president geoff, so good to see you again. >> listen president biden, he is not holding any punches, but of course, in a closed-door fundraiser, he did that. >> how about publicly, should he be out in front talking about this issue? publicly well, i think he's got a call, balls and strikes. >> donald trump is like he said, in his fundraiser. the first convicted felon run for the office of president, and that is has the added benefit of being true. this whole election is going to come down to republicans like me. republicans that are lifelong republicans conservative in nature, but just don't think donald trump is anywhere near fit to have the office of president and it's whether or not we're going to stay at home and just let it let it happen with the weight of gravity or we're going to show up and do something about it. a vote for joe biden isn't a vote for anything other than a gop to 0.0 get republican like me. it gives us a chance to pur

former lieutenant georgia at lieutenant governor geoff duncan. he joins us onset are our panel. good morning, jeff. good morning. i look, you have been out front as someone who has been arguing in no small part because of what we saw there the january 6 issue. but of course, also the 11,000 votes he was hunting for here in georgia about the dangers of a another trump presidency. you have said that you are supporting joe biden are you still supporting him after the performance we saw last night? >> you know, i'm one of those folks that i'm against donald trump because of because of facts and details, you just mentioned them, him trying to bully is way here and lie and conspiracy theories by families received death threats my wife and kids have received death threats. i've watched him operate. i've watched him stoke stoke the fires of january 6. we cannot afford donald trump to be back in the white house. and last night was difficult to watch, right? job i did not show up ready to go mentally and physically. he needed a cross a bar that was relatively low and he didn't do it i thi

>> geoff duncan, thank you for sharing your point of view.e. >> thanks fine. >> now for that at time in franchise history, the boston celtics are nba champions carolyn mano has this morning's bleacher report. carolyn, there was quite a run for the celtics. >> it really was moderate. good morning. history made in boston last night celtics once again alone at the top of the list of teams with most nba title their 18th championship breaking that tie with the los angeles lakers, boston simply would not be he denied in this series, they set the tone from the opening tip last night against dallas, they jumped out to a 21 point half-time lead, punctuated by payton pritchard. is he from beyond? halfcourt at the buzzer, the celtics and never let up after that. it was their night. jayson tatum led the way for boston with a game-high 31 points to go with 11 assists in a eight rebounds. but it was actually jaylen brown who walked away with the top honors. he was named finals mvp after pouring in 21 points and the watto 688 when oh, my god it's also ruled

joining me now football commentator for cnn and former republican lieutenant governor of georgia, geoff duncan. he has endorsed biden for president and he breaks down the three things that biden needs to do to win thursday's debate in a new op ed and the atlanta journal constitution. >> so get to see you again. >> lieutenant governor duncan in just thinking about who might show up at these debates, the candidate, the personality, which version of each will be there? i mean, you say that president biden, he's got to drive home these points to win the debate. on thursday, he's got to answer the age and vitality questions once and for all. he's got to speak to all economic omic realities and remind the country of the embarrassing tumbled of the trump presidency. and so i do wonder from the first part, how does biden go about trying to even attempt to end the discussion about his age once and for all on thursday well, here we go. georgia is in the center of the political universe again, home of the safest, fairest, and most legal elections in the country. and we've proven it. >> yet i think the vi

matt gorman and cnn political commentator and former lieutenant governor of georgia, geoff duncan. thank you, gentlemen for being here. brian, i'm going to start with you because we've got this new reporting. those coming from our kayla tausche about the plans on the debate stage 4 president biden and basically what he's saying is he's going to very much starkly show and talk about the seismic shift that happened in this country after the january 6 attack on the capitol something that you should expect, correct oh, for sure. >> i think it would be very surprising if the president didn't talk about january 6. on the other hand, i think most of the people who are convinced by the need to preserve american institutions and our democracy are already winning the president. he's got to convince people who are struggling with house payments and car payments who believed that the economy is in a recession right now. so i would lean much more into project 2025. the threats to american families than the threats to american institutions? >> matt to you now, if using this, it really out an att

one of those leaders joins us now the former lieutenant governor, geoff duncan.ch for being here, sir, always good to have you here. you of course, were at the center of what we saw happen in 2020. where do we stand in this state right now heading into this consequential night tonight well, i think the election is close. >> i think it's close today and it's gonna be close on election day. and i think the big question for us here in georgia is where do those 70 plus almost 80,000 nikki haley voters show up on election day. do they stay on the couch? do they show up and vote for joe biden or do they just hold their nose and vote for donald trump will have to see what that plays out. but certainly there is an anchor amongst georgians here because we have donald trump has absolutely shaft that are so many different ways. i mean, going back to covid, the second guessed everything that governor camp and i did obviously the fake electors scheme, the 2020 election debacle the lies and conspiracy theories. and so i think there's a jaded feeling amongst a lot of republican

geoff duncan, i want to kind of go to you because the reality is that what the basic, the collapse of president biden on that stage last night, the metaphorical one it could be one hand, the nomination or the presence you back to donald trump and i mean, you heard marco rubio their the stakes are very high. >> yeah, the 10% in the middle are still in no man's land right now. and the 10% in the middle, by the way, it's going to select who the next president united states is. they're still, has gotta be more to come. but i think there's some there's some gnashing of teeth here on both sides thinking what could have happened. i sat here, listen to senator rubio talk and just a half mile from here in 2016, i introduced him to a crowd of folks on a campaign event. and that marco rubio had it right? that marco rubio was a bright star in the republican party that understood the conservative values. everybody keeps making excuses around donald trump. he sat here and tried to defend january 6. i sat on january 6 with brian kemp at a podium a mile from here at the georgia capital begging donald

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. >> amanda, georgia, former georgia republican lieutenant governor geoff duncan, who's a staunch conservative, said last month that he's supporting biden. he wrote an op-ed and he said, quote, unlike trump, i belonged to the gop my entire life this november, i'm voting for a decent person i disagree on disagree with on policy over a criminal defendant without a moral compass why is that rationale so unappealing to so many republicans? because for so long, moral character we heard that from evangelicals. we heard that from republican. i mean, that was supposedly the guidepost yeah. >> listen the partisan ship divides in our country run deep and they strike it the core identity of republican voters it is very hard for people across that barrier and say, i am going to vote for a democratic president. what i think the key is probably this election is find a way for republicans to preserve that republican identity and find a way to get there. and i think there's a lot of issues where people like jeff duncan hogging about issues of morality can say, this goes outside partisanship. right now, we're

president to be a man of integrity so the, former republican lieutenant governor of your state, geoff duncan says, he disagrees with many of biden's policies, but says that he's still going to support biden over trump here. >> he's explaining why let's listen i'm voting for a decent person that i disagree with on policies over a criminal defendant who has no moral compass. donald trump needs to get beat. >> we need to move on as a party. >> we need to move on as a country what do you think about what he's saying is that something that you agree with i agree with. >> i agree with him wholeheartedly in he's he's reiterating what i was saying you know, you have, you know, being a president, you have to be a man of integrity so if it is not biden and it is not trump, who would you vote for if the election were today? >> i've actually started looking into robert kennedy jr. i think he's running as an independent and he seemed so far a man of integrity in my opinion why is that? and what about his policies du like and i'm still researching a lot of his policies and looking to see one of his things

includes former republican congressman adam kinzinger, former lieutenant governor of georgia, geoff duncan, two republicans who have endorsed biden then as well as harry dunn who was on hand as a capital police officer on the de that january 6 attack, what this press conference is aiming to do is really trying to draw a contrast with trump over democracy. the need to preserve democratic institutions. this is something that has been central to biden's campaign and its all so something that they believe can play with those republican voters who had been turned off by trump's four years in office, including his actions around the january 6 riot at the u.s. capitol. so all of this serving as a preview of how exactly president sign from the white house. thanks for that let's bring it out. a great group of reporters to break this all down cnn's alayna treene, cnn's isaac dovere. we end caldwell, the washington post zahlen cano young's of the new york times, nice to see you all. later. you'd been talking a lot to the trump campaign about this strategy, tried to pin it back to immigration and talk

. >> christian homes, mj lee, thanks so much with me here tonight republican geoff duncan, the former lieutenant governor of georgia, who announced today he is now supporting president biden. cnn senior political commentator, former trump campaign adviser, david urban, former atlanta mayor kitchen lands bottoms, who's joining the biden campaign as a senior adviser. also former obama senior adviser, david axelrod and cnn chief national correspondent, john king. obviously, david axelrod, you have a lot of experience with president bomber in debates. you know, joe biden as a debater. what do you expect him to try? trump to try to get under biden skin with family i do expect him to try and distract and one of the interesting questions to me is the mics are gonna go off when your time is up. it doesn't prevent trump from continuing to talk and try to just trying to distract the podiums are eight feet apart. i don't know if that means sound is picked up i think well, i don't think it's i mean, i saw demonstration, right? cnn earlier today, it's in sound like it was being picked up, so it ac

adam kinzinger and geoff duncan delivering a message straight to the republicans, no way no how with donald trump, how quickly can you get yourself to the imperatives of your own reelection. >> i would see two things. one his, if they rewatch the debate, if the president watches it, it is clear that his strength was when he was not listing data and numbers and trying to remember numbers and correctingbe himself and losing the thread. it was when he was passionately responding about veterans and january 6 and responding as a human and not as a statistician or recordkeeper as he was in the first half. the other thing that will be a challenge, this is the inside outside game, as voters and talking about them, but the democratic operatives is down ballot candidates. down ballot candidates, watch the debate and they worry about him being at the top of the ticket. their political operation will have to do a lot of conference calls and calls and handholding tonight and tomorrow to reassure them as well. >> we have much more to come. in a few minutes we will be speaking live with vice presid

former illinois congressman adam kinzinger and former georgia lieutenant governor geoff duncan held a georgia state capitol yesterday. kinzinger was a member of the january 6th committee before leaving congress last year. duncan was president of the georgia state senate when trump and rudy giuliani attempted to overturn the state's 2020 election results. here's some of what they had to say. >> i'm not looking at this election through the lens of being a republican. i'm looking through the lens of being an american, an american that cares more about the future of my country than the moral bankrupt nominee of my party. there are political ramifications to this decision, but they pale in comparison to four more years of donald trump, both home and abroad. i have an ask. my ask is this. it is your time to do the right thing. don't give donald trump four more years to continue to destroy this country. >> in november there is one man running for reelection of two men running for reelection that cares about the future of this country and cares about democracy, and that's joe biden. if we hav

listen to how you're former lieutenant governor, geoff duncan reacted to that. listen to this brian camp has earned the right to do whatever he wants when he walks in that ballot box has been a great governor. >> he certainly lead this state through a bunch of difficult times, and he's used conservative principles to do it. but i think it speaks to the broader sense of republicans that they just have this anxi, amongst them. we know and our gut that donald trump is not the right person so how much did that broader anchor and the republican party about trump impact your choice not to vote for him in the republican primary? yeah well i'm not too worried about i asked her things that happened in the past. a look at the primary was over when it got here, he was the presumptive nominee at the time and i'm looking forward and on know he is too i mean, there's a lot of republicans that voted for a lot of different people over this process. but all that doesn't matter right now will what matters is is that we're focused on the future. i've said all along won the primary

geoff? i think so, yes, iain duncan smith wrote for the telegraph today warning of the resurgence of a new axis, china, north korea and iran. he's saying it's the most dangerous time for the western world since the cold war. do you agree with that analysis? >> it's certainly a real risk that these countries, particularly countries like nonh particularly countries like north korea and russia, are getting together is a very real threat. i think probably vie i wouldn't go quite as far as doctor howell in the sense that i don't see any prospect of a some kind of military alliance. i think this is entirely pragmatic by putin. this is a source of artillery shells that he can use in ukraine. and one of the problems for ukrainian defenders in recent times has been they've simply been outgunned by huge amounts of artillery fire coming in from the russian side. >> what's your assessment of ukraine? i'd be intrigued to know how you think . for know how you think. for instance, tony blair might have reacted to the invasion in and whether you support the government's action in support with aid and weaponry