ATL Standard

Georgia's Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan insists he did not vote for GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker in the runoff election against incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock, saying that he couldn’t bring himself to vote for either candidate and simply left his polling place without voting.

In a recent CNN interview, Duncan said there was nothing that made sense for him to put his vote behind when he saw the ballot.

"I showed up to vote this morning," Duncan told CNN, quoted by FOX 5 Atlanta. "I was one of those folks who got in line and spent about an hour waiting, and it was the most disappointing ballot I’ve ever stared at in my entire life since I started voting."

Georgia voters reportedly turned out in record numbers for the Nov. 6 Senate race, with former University of Georgia and NFL star Walker having earned the full-throated, public backing of former Republican President Donald Trump; the FOX 5 report said. 

Warnock took the victory in the Senate runoff, winning approximately 51.4% of the vote; Politico reported.

Duncan has long been a fierce public critic of Trump. The lieutenant governor has also previously said he does not "respect" Walker, and he blamed the GOP's disappointing midterm elections performance on bad candidates, many of whom he noted were publicly hand-picked by the ex-president.

Duncan announced last year that he would not seek reelection in 2022, saying "national events" since the 2020 presidential election have "deeply affected my family."

Duncan is a former health care executive and minor league baseball player who served three terms in the Georgia House of Representatives before winning election as lieutenant governor in 2018.