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Jeanne Seaver to Challenge Geoff Duncan for Lt. Governor of Georgia

Although primary elections for state offices are still well over a year away, Georgia’s Lieutenant Governor, Geoff Duncan, already has a challenger.

Jeanne Seaver touts herself as a business owner, community activist, and political consultant, who worked for the Trump campaign in Georgia in 2016.

In a campaign video released yesterday, Seaver announced her candidacy, offering little in the way of specific criticism of Duncan’s performance, saying that she was “very disappointed in the failed leadership of the Lieutenant Governor’s office.”

Duncan has, so far largely managed to avoid the kind of ire from Trump supporters that other Republican political figures in the state, like Governor Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, drew after the 2020 election.

Martin Matheny is WUGA's Program Director and a host and producer of our local news program 'Athens News Matters.' He started at WUGA in 2012 as a part-time classical music host and still hosts WUGA's longest-running local program 'Night Music' which is heard on WUGA and GPB Classical. He lives in Normaltown with his wife, Shaye and dog, Murphy.