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Posted: 12/14/2019 5:04:26 PM EDT

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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."

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Posted: 12/14/2019 5:05:14 PM EDT

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Brave sumbitch there.

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:05:25 PM EDT

[#2]

#walkaway

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:05:35 PM EDT

[#3]

woah.

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:05:46 PM EDT

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This rarely goes over well with voters. It happens a lot in my state legislature. Well, not actually switching parties, only one legislator has done that in my adult life (I was actually her classmate preschool - 12th grade). But what does happen a lot here is that Democrats will run as Republicans in Republican districts, win election, and then presto-chango caucus with Democrats. Infuriating.

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:05:53 PM EDT

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Posted: 12/14/2019 5:05:54 PM EDT

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Just what the Republican Party needs, more rhinos.

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:06:03 PM EDT

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You bet!

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:06:56 PM EDT

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Actually He Should plan on leaving New Jersey. Like Everyone else is.But This works.

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:08:28 PM EDT

[#9]

True public servant IMO.

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:08:42 PM EDT

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That is good optics for Trump.

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:09:11 PM EDT

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It’s a win in the short term. Can always primary him next time.

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:09:36 PM EDT

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Russia did this.

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:09:47 PM EDT

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Do not worry the loons of Dirty Jersey will vote him out next go around and vote in someone 10x more insane on the liberal scale.

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:09:58 PM EDT

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So when will the FBI arrest him for being another Russian asset?

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:10:02 PM EDT

[#15]

Others may follow. Good for him.

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:10:25 PM EDT

[#16]

He will meet a gym accident in less than 4 days.

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:11:36 PM EDT

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Didn't a county in NJ just become a sanctuary for the 2nd? Now this? Shit, this is good news if people from NJ are waking up.

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:12:42 PM EDT

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Posted: 12/14/2019 5:12:58 PM EDT

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Yeah pretty much

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:13:29 PM EDT

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So he will add to the ranks of the House RINO caucus?

Its still a big happening in this day and age.

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:14:56 PM EDT

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How long until he is found suicided with two gunshot wounds to the back of the head?

You do not simply leave the mafia.

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:16:20 PM EDT

[#22]

Good.

Sen Manchin is already more R than some Rs, why hasn't he?

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:17:48 PM EDT

[#23]

Sorry to hear about his suicide

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:19:35 PM EDT

[#24]

Need a few moar, rhino or not, FTDP.

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:21:49 PM EDT

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I have NO doubt about it.

Good for him seeing the light !

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:22:34 PM EDT

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Our current Governor in WV was a registered Republican for years. Switched to Democrat. Ran as a Dem. Won as a Dem. 7 months into office switched back to Repub. He saw the writing on the wall with Trump in WV and had a rally with him a short time later.

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:23:20 PM EDT

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Dissention within their ranks is a great look for those oppose this whole debacle

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:23:27 PM EDT

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Sen Manchin is already more R than some Rs, why hasn't he?

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Because he couldn’t get elected as a Republican in WV, that’s a damn fact. People here vote straight ticket for the D because that’s all their family has voted and Manchin is such a nice guy, ect. Nevermind that he’s a fence sitter and flip flops more than a fish on the river bank.

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:23:53 PM EDT

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Meanwhile, Stenny Hoyer in the Democrat caucus chambers.

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:25:28 PM EDT

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If Democrats couldn’t magically become Republicans you wouldn’t have elected Trump.

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:25:45 PM EDT

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"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.”

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:27:15 PM EDT

[#32]

Van Drew has a spotty record on guns. He voted against mag ban (which still passed) but for the red flag law

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:27:38 PM EDT

[#33]

Welcome sir!

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:28:16 PM EDT

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Tactical victory.

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:28:37 PM EDT

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Many years ago, Colorado, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, switched from D to R. He was a good senator and real native American.

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:29:03 PM EDT

[#36]

Nice.

Interested to see his voting history and what his future voting habits will be provided he doesn't shoot himself in the back of the head three times.

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:29:17 PM EDT

[#37]

That is a very Conservative and Rural area in NJ.

He is saving his Political Life.

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:29:55 PM EDT

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Maybe he had guidance from the NRA.

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:30:32 PM EDT

[#39]

Decided to be on the right side of the Boog?

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:31:48 PM EDT

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Boom

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:32:29 PM EDT

[#41]

Nice!

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:33:26 PM EDT

[#42]

Good!

Let this impeachment be the death nail in the Democrats coffin.

I'm not a socialist, but have more respect for the socialist party then the Democrats!

At least their honest!

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:33:31 PM EDT

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Van Drew has a spotty record on guns. He voted against mag ban (which still passed) but for the red flag law

Maybe he had guidance from the NRA.

He voted for the ban on firearm private sales in NJ too

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:34:26 PM EDT

[#44]

wow.

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:35:38 PM EDT

[#45]

Michael Bloomberg presidential campaign spending $4.2 million per day on ads

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:36:22 PM EDT

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/14/us/politics/jeff-van-drew-democrat-republican.html

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:36:36 PM EDT

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He voted for the ban on firearm private sales in NJ too

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Van Drew has a spotty record on guns. He voted against mag ban (which still passed) but for the red flag law

Maybe he had guidance from the NRA.

He voted for the ban on firearm private sales in NJ too

So we gain another NeoCon RINO GOPe?

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:37:23 PM EDT

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"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.”

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Yep. A lot of them hang one due to party loyalty no matter what they do, and a lot of voters are like that too, but some will change. I will never forget what and older gentleman with whom I worked told me. "I used to be a Democrat, and I never left the Democrat party, They left me."

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:38:07 PM EDT

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Rep Tom Emmer R-MN (he is actually the chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee, so he is in a position to not be talking out of his ass) was on the local radio yesterday morning and teased that there were "several" Dem members of Congress who are in talks to switch parties and when pressed as to who they were said, "There aren't any from Minnesota, but you have heard of some of them." I haven't heard of this guy, so I'm going to assume he's the first domino to fall.

Posted: 12/14/2019 5:38:53 PM EDT

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