Posted on 12/18/2019 11:02:47 AM PST by be-baw
Rep. Jeff Van Drew (D-N.J.) might be poised to jump to the GOP, but the New Jersey freshman will remain a Democrat at least through Wednesday's votes on articles of impeachment.
"This is a big vote. I started discussing this issue and my concerns with it as a Democrat. I think it's appropriate," Van Drew told The Hill Wednesday afternoon, just hours before the impeachment votes. He is expected to vote no on both articles.
The comments came just moments after Van Drew had exited the cloak room of the House chamber — on the Republican side.
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Good a bi partisan vote against with NO GOP votes for.
He’s not a Republican. He needs to stay a Rat and try to reform the Rats from within.
No need to water down the GOP to accomodate this guy. Nobody trusts a turncoat, anyway.
Calling him either party is spin on a technicality. Just take the vote against and leave it at that.
No, this is a colossal humiliation for Pelosi
Yes, it’s more of a humiliation if he stays a Rat.
I would not be surprised if the GOP spoke to him and requested that he take this action. We don’t need a bipartisan effort here. It would be a poor choice for him to do that just as he joins out side. That’s burning the bridge before you cross the bridge.
On the biggest vote of his brief tenure in office, he's on the right side.
Then it's up to the Republicans to get rid of his sorry ass.
ROFLOL...he got paid millions or he got told he was going to go the way Epstein went (along with hundreds of others since the name Hillary Clinton has been known)….
Interesting.
Yep rather have a former Dem who voted with Trump when it counted then a GOP-E Chamber of Commies Never Trumper stooge
He stays a rat he is in her power, she can get even with him. He leaves, she can’t touch him. In the meantime he is an example of how Pelosi is losing her grip.
yep.
ask jumpin jim jeffords.
how’d that work out for ya?
they will start calling this dude “Jummpin jeff”
The first concession he got is that Trump will endorse him against a strong primary challenge from an anti-Trump "Republican" who was the GOP frontrunner in 2020 to challenge Van Drew.
This is New Jersey we're talking about here. I wouldn't rely on the Republicans in this state to call the fire department if their own homes were burning to the ground.
It makes the NO vote bipartisan.
Good
There may be only one other— Colin Peterson of Minnesota’s 7th district. He loves being for the Democrats what John McCain was for the Republicans.
Van Drew is actually our Congressman. I believe Republicans should accept him into the fold, and let us, his constituents, work to bring him around. If he doesn’t, we’ll vote him out.
Drew and Peterson will be the only Democrat “no” votes on impeachment tonight, which will make opposition to it officially bipartisan.
The same cannot be said for the other side.
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