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Democratic impeachment holdout Jeff Van Drew planning to switch parties
« on: December 14, 2019, 09:11:05 pm »
 Democratic impeachment holdout Jeff Van Drew planning to switch parties
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Rep. Jeff Van Drew, a moderate Democrat who is strongly opposed to impeaching President Donald Trump, is expected to switch parties and become a Republican, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.

Van Drew is one of two Democrats who voted against opening the impeachment inquiry into Trump and has remained against the effort, even as the House prepares to vote to impeach the president next week.

Van Drew’s congressional and campaign staff were informed he was planning to switch parties on Saturday, according to Democratic sources. The question was now when, not if, Van Drew was joining the Republican Party, according to several Democrats with knowledge of the ongoing conversations.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democratic-impeachment-holdout-jeff-van-drew-planning-to-switch-parties/ar-AAK8ba2

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Re: Democratic impeachment holdout Jeff Van Drew planning to switch parties
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2019, 09:12:16 pm »
Actually, pretty big news to have a Dem switch parties during this impeachment matter.
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Re: Democratic impeachment holdout Jeff Van Drew planning to switch parties
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2019, 09:40:28 pm »
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Re: Democratic impeachment holdout Jeff Van Drew planning to switch parties
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2019, 10:00:40 pm »
Quote from: TomSea on December 14, 2019, 09:12:16 pm
Actually, pretty big news to have a Dem switch parties during this impeachment matter.

Agreed. The optics are quite dramatic.
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Re: Democratic impeachment holdout Jeff Van Drew planning to switch parties
« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2019, 10:29:55 pm »
If they could get Collin Peterson to flip that would be yuge. 
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Re: Democratic impeachment holdout Jeff Van Drew planning to switch parties
« Reply #5 on: December 15, 2019, 02:22:51 pm »


The freshman Democratic lawmaker met with President Donald Trump ahead of next week's House impeachment vote, an official said

Published December 14, 2019   â€¢ Updated at 7:55 am on December 15, 2019
A House freshman from New Jersey who was planning to break with his party and vote against impeaching President Donald Trump will become a Republican, a GOP official said Saturday.

Top House Republicans have been told of Rep. Jeff Van Drew's decision, according to a GOP official familiar with the conversations. The lawmaker had discussed switching parties in a meeting with Trump at the White House on Friday, an administration official said Saturday.

Van Drew's decision underscores the pressures facing moderate Democrats from Trump-leaning districts as next week's impeachment vote approaches. Van Drew won his southern New Jersey district by 8 percentage points last year, but Trump carried it by 5 points in 2016 and Van Drew was considered one of the more vulnerable House Democrats going into next November's congressional elections.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/new-jersey-freshman-democrat-may-switch-parties-report/2241969/
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Re: Democratic impeachment holdout Jeff Van Drew planning to switch parties
« Reply #6 on: December 15, 2019, 02:37:11 pm »
Quote from: TomSea on December 14, 2019, 09:12:16 pm
Actually, pretty big news to have a Dem switch parties during this impeachment matter.

Pretty big news in NJ for a congressman to go from a Democrat to a Republican
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Re: Democratic impeachment holdout Jeff Van Drew planning to switch parties
« Reply #7 on: December 15, 2019, 03:29:19 pm »
Quote from: TomSea on December 14, 2019, 09:12:16 pm
Actually, pretty big news to have a Dem switch parties during this impeachment matter.

I'd love to be a fly-on-the-wall at the several discussions that led to this and will follow it. Just hearing whether the guy's reasoning is just political survival or whether it's, "The Dem Party has gone insane!"

Given how the Dem Party has squeeze-purged Pro-Life Dems from the party, it could be both: "Those guys have gone insane and if I vote what I think is right, against impeachment, I'll get purged!"
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Re: Democratic impeachment holdout Jeff Van Drew planning to switch parties
« Reply #8 on: December 15, 2019, 03:54:31 pm »
I wish he'd waited.  We lose the optics of the anti-impeachment vote being bipartisan. 
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Re: Democratic impeachment holdout Jeff Van Drew planning to switch parties
« Reply #9 on: December 16, 2019, 01:36:46 pm »
Personally, I think Gov Murphy is worried the state might turn purple.

Would purple be so bad? It wouldn’t be the end of the world, you know.

Or maybe it would. Que up “It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine”
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Re: Democratic impeachment holdout Jeff Van Drew planning to switch parties
« Reply #10 on: December 16, 2019, 02:21:59 pm »
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“Jeff Van Drew has chosen his political career over our Constitution,” Murphy said in a statement. “Despite knowing full well that the president has abused the powers of his office, Congressman Van Drew is now willing to enable Donald Trump just to try to salvage his own election.”

I'm sure Van Drew found this very persuasive. :sarc:
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Re: Democratic impeachment holdout Jeff Van Drew planning to switch parties
« Reply #11 on: December 16, 2019, 02:37:13 pm »

Five aides to Van Drew resign ahead of his formal switch to GOP
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,385839.0.html
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Re: Democratic impeachment holdout Jeff Van Drew planning to switch parties
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