Jeff Duncan, welcome to the show.

Glad to be here.

I called up Jeff Duncan because as Americans get ready to go to the polls this year,

he holds a very specific, maybe unique place.

I am going to get to the question everyone asks you about becoming a Democrat.

But the first thing I want to ask you is do you miss being a Republican?

I don't.

Jeff is a newly minted Democrat, who until very recently was a prominent Republican,

prominent as in he was lieutenant governor in Georgia, and now he is running to become governor

himself, again, as a Democrat.

I think the reality is I've been able to hit the reset button.

I mean, I wake up every day in problem-solving mode again instead of picking fights.

I mean, that's all the Republican Party wanted to do was pick fights and not solve problems.

But there was a reason you became a politician as a Republican, right?

Like, what was it?

I grew up in a Republican household. I lived in a 90-10 Republican district. And it was literally like day one in the Capitol when I got sworn in in 2013 that I realized there was these two factions that formed. There was those that were really good at picking fights. And there was those that wanted to solve problems. And I was like, oh, wait a minute. I put my whole life on hold.

I'm driving 40 miles of the Capitol every day.

Not to pick fights.

Like, I could do that on my own somewhere else.

I'm doing this to solve problems.

This is intriguing, right?

That is exactly what Jeff Duncan wants you to think.

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