Democrat Congressman Leaving Party Over Impeachment, Becoming Republican
By: Ryan Saavedra
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New Jersey Democratic Congressman Jeff Van Drew, who has strongly opposed the Democrats’ impeachment efforts, is leaving the Democratic Party and becoming a member of the Republican Party after meeting with President Donald Trump.
“Van Drew’s congressional and campaign staff were informed he was planning to switch parties on Saturday, according to Democratic sources,” Politico reported . “The question was now when, not if, Van Drew was joining the Republican Party, according to several Democrats with knowledge of the ongoing conversations.”
Van Drew reportedly met “at length” with Trump on Friday and his decision to switch parties is supposed to be officially announced in the near future, a top GOP source told Politico.
The Washington Post reported that his decision to switch parties delivered “a political jolt to Democrats ahead of next week’s expected vote to impeach the president.”
News of Van Drew’s defection went viral online moments after the story broke with many noting that the move is highly damaging to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s impeachment efforts.
Federalist co-founder Sean Davis tweeted: “Nancy Pelosi isn’t just hemorrhaging votes for her impeachment gambit, she’s now facing wholesale defections from the Democrat party because of its impeachment hysteria.”
Bryan Dean Wright, a Democrat and former CIA officer, responded to the news by writing on Twitter: “Turns out people get tired of defending a party that’s spent the past three years embracing Socialists, anti-Semites, and hysteria.”
In a recent interview with USA Today, Van Drew said , “My job isn’t really to like or dislike him. My job is to exact as much goodwill and help for my district and for this nation and for this world that I possibly can while he’s president.”
On the issue of impeachment, Van Drew said, “To some folks, that’s reminiscent of what was done to kings and queens many years ago. Everything our country doesn’t stand for.”
Speaking on impeachment this week, Van Drew told reporters: “It was supposed to be bipartisan, it was supposed to be incontrovertible. It was supposed to be something that was always on the rarest of circumstances. Well it’s not bipartisan.”
Van Drew is not the only Democrat to warn his party on impeachment, Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY) warned the Democrats that if Trump gets removed from office that it could be a bad move politically because of who the Democrats may have to face from the GOP in 2020.
“I do think that it’s the right thing to do to remove him from office. I believe he is an imminent danger to this country and to our democracy, but I was saying that the political consequences may not be very good for the Democrats,” Yarmuth said. “I will guarantee you the Republican Party would not nominate Mike Pence to succeed him. They would nominate someone like Nikki Haley who would be much more difficult for Democrats to defeat.”
In late November, Democrat Rep. Brenda Lawrence (MI) said that Trump should be censured but not removed from office.
“You can censure, you don’t have to remove the president,” Lawrence said . “We are so close to an election. I will tell you, sitting here, knowing how divided this country is, I don’t see the value of kicking him out of office, but I do see the value of putting down a marker saying his behavior is not acceptable.”
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We didn't just gain a democratic defection on impeachment, we gained a seat!
Jeff Van Drew has seen the light.
This could be just the beginning.
Interesting that some, who previously agreed with him as long as he obeyed Pelosi, are now calling him a "traitor".
Interesting. Would you say similar words about Donald Trump if he were to swerve his 'commitments' to be the face of conservative TAKEOVER of our systems of government?
I'm not among the people who accuse Rep. Van Drew of being a traitor for changing party affiliation. Ronald Reagan, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Mike Bloomberg, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, and many others throughout our history (and at many levels of government) have also switched party affiliations.
There are also many reasons why politicians switch party affiliation. Please read about them, because none of them are related to a "TAKEOVER of our systems of government".
In case you are missing it: The Takeover is being televised daily, Jasper. Catch up! The ConservativeHq.com website that has been running 'proudly' on the web seems to be offline or made private 'suddenly' or I would clue you in.
I'm an independent voter and not registered with a political party, CB, so why would you think that I'd be interested in reading a book written by a radical who admired Joseph McCarthy and worked for George Wallace?
Jasper, now you are cracking me up. I answered your concern. I have nothing other to add to that.
22 gop congressmen and 4 gop senators are not even running for reelection because their chances are zip...
The chances the damn gop regains Congress are 0...
Good riddance.
Considering Democrats are proceeding with the most partisan attempt in history to remove a President, it's only fitting that moderates cannot in good conscious remain members of the Democratic party. Moon bats only allowed.
What a stupid foolish man. Does Mr. Van Drew and everybody else know how damnably stupid it is to pretend that you can make something bi-partisan when one side congeals around a determination to simply not do it? Van Drew is a fool, plain and simple. The only solution for the republicans to this is let Donald Trump do whatever the heaven conservatives HIRED him to do and just get out of the way.
To prove the point, Mr. Van Drew is so stupid, that he can readily hear (like everybody with ears attached to their damn heads or who can read SIGN language) Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
tell him he is coordinating with Trump's lawyers - Trump's impeachment trial. Note McConnell did this in plain sight and hearing of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts, Speaker Pelosi, and all 300 plus million Americans.
All the dead presidents and dead senators are groaning and turning over in their graves!
Shame! Shame! Shame! When the world abandons the pretense of trying to be fair- blame the United States for falling away from its own Rule of Law.
We are becoming the laughingstock of the whole world once more. And, we don't even realize it.
You are straight out of Talking Points Central aren't you? I just looked up at your name to verify whom with I am discussing this. I am going to remember you.
So you got nothing to share about the laughingstock we are to have the President of the world's most preeminent nation stooping so low as to ask the new leader of a nation who needs our help against Russia the way Israel needs our help against Iran? And, what's worse, is the Leader of the Free World is caught red-handed "bumming" to twist the arm of a small nation into out-right lying about his political rival!
And you have nerve to talk to me about Adam Schiff, who by the way, is only trying to get at the truth, your guy refuses to give up document on!
The next time we try to tell a third-world country about corruption and its influences, somebody ought to spit laughter into that one's face!
A Trump supporter wrote the above. What about old "Mr. Alternative Reality" Trump himself?
just another dem who will WalkAway
the dems have become the incredible shrinking party.
the lunatics drive sane people out by the millions.
over 7 million obama voters voted trump and that exodus has continued to this day.
Another traitor to the constitution for personal gain. This is just another piece of shit person who will become a republican for the purpose of retaining his job. What a fucking loser. I hope his ass loses in his next election.
every time a person Walks Away from the democrat party
an angel gets its wings
Cheers
Okay:
every time a person Joins up with the republican party
a demon gets its horns
Cheers
Just an observation: This move doesn't appear to be a big leap for this guy. According to the Infallible Wikipedia, he had 100% rating from the NRA, and was the only Democrat to vote against gun control bills offered in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting. He also voted against legalizing same-sex marriage in New Jersey, and against raising the minimum wage.
He has held liberal positions, of course, but he's generally moderate enough that I suspect the particular party he is in really isn't all that important to him.
I'd never heard of this man until his recent "defection". Some left wing radicals clearly have the vapors over this and called him a traitor which, to them, means he is guilty of treason. Other left wing radicals are advocating street protests/violence.
And you are an independent voter, Jasper? I'm just saying.
"To anyone else who believes the new Socialist-Democrat Party no longer represents them: you are welcome in the Republican Party.".....Kevin McCarthy