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Lieutenant governor hopefuls tout outsider status
Election
After Donald Trump’s 2016 victory, more candidates are finding value in their outsider status — and not just on the right. See: Georgia’s race for lieutenant governor and the candidacies of Republican Geoff Duncan and Democrat Sarah Riggs Amico. The two are running in their respective primaries as business-minded professionals with either little or no history in politics — once a liability now forged into real currency in the race to replace Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, who has had the job for more than a decade.