Posted on 11/09/2020 6:50:40 AM PST by MarvinStinson
Defeats member of disgraced Kennedy dynasty
Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R., N.J.), a former Democrat, switched parties in January 2020 after opposing his party's effort to impeach President Donald Trump. He was widely mocked and derided by his former colleagues and other liberals at the time, and most experts predicted he would lose reelection in 2020. Van Drew won by 5 percentage points, defeating a member of the disgraced Kennedy dynasty.
"This is an awful thing to do," said Rep. Bill Pascrell (D., N.J.) of Van Drew's decision to switch parties in 2019. "You make a commitment. That doesn't mean you've got to vote every way that the majority or the leadership asks you to vote. Certainly, it means you owe something to the organization who put you where you are."
Pascrell also insinuated that Van Drew's betrayal warranted a violent response. "Do you know how we would have handled this back in Paterson?" the congressman said, referring to his hometown. He added that Van Drew would no longer be welcome to set foot on the Democratic side of the House chamber.
Rep. Steve Cohen (D., Tenn.) said at the time that Van Drew was "making a serious mistake" by switching parties. Disgraced former congresswoman Katie Hill (D., Calif.), who resigned after taking advantage of a staff member, said she was "incredibly disappointed" in Van Drew's decision and hoped he lost the election as a result.
Van Drew's motivation for joining the Republican Party appeared to threaten the mental stability of prominent libs. He argued that the impeachment inquiry was making it hard to tackle more pressing legislative issues in the House. Van Drew also expressed frustration with Democrats for not believing in "American exceptionalism."
This caused liberal filmmaker Rob Reiner, among others, to lose his mind. "The guy's working with the Russians," Reiner said during an unhinged rant on MSNBC. "Are we now saying that we're just going to give ourselves over to the Russians? We beat them in the Cold War, and they're beating us now in the cyber war. And if we don't stand up to them, it could be the end of our democracy. And I'm sorry if you lose your seat, but we've got to stand up for democracy."
Most professional pundits thought Van Drew would lose, primarily because most of them bought into the narrative of a "blue wave" election. "Van Drew's defection to GOP haunts him in tight race," read the headline of a Politico report published last week. The polls showed him trailing Democratic challenger Amy Kennedy, the wife of Patrick Kennedy, the former congressman and son of the late sexual predator Ted Kennedy.
Kennedy cited Van Drew's public pledge of loyalty to Trump as the reason she decided to run. "It felt like he was willing to do or say anything to keep his job," Kennedy said. "There are a lot of people in the district who really respect someone who can be independent-minded, but that's not what that felt like to them."
Democrats ran ads branding the GOP incumbent as "switcher Van Drew" and even mocked him for wearing nice suits. According to Politico, the Democratic Party was "eager to win back a seat they thought they had already seized in 2018" and was seeking "revenge for Van Drew's high-profile defection."
But Republicans got the last laugh. Van Drew prevailed, and the GOP is on track to gain at least six seats in the House in what is shaping up to be an embarrassing failure of an election for Democrats not named Joe Biden.
mental stability? lol
Anything going against the National Declarations of the Left, threatens ALL the Progs.
If Van Drew lived across the state line in PA, he probably would have lost due to the voter fraud. New Jersey was comfortably in the Dem Biden camp so they ignored the need for fraud, especially in down ballot races.
Party loyalty because they got you the position kinda ignored the Constitution as well as the constituents.
It almost sounds like the believe in vote fraud.
That is not true, Murphy stole the election to keep dems in power as much as possible.
Murphy stole it in the urban centers to prevent an republican uprising. He stole the republican primary as well and nominated a wet diaper with zero dollars in fund raising to run against Corey Booker, Hirsh Singh would have been more competitive and would have required democrats to spend money in NJ. The other guy didn’t even have $50 to run but he won the primary because Murphy tossed and refused to count ballots and declared the other guy the winner.
Murphy even said they are not going to count election day votes and will be tossing them.
The voting system in the People’s Republic of New Jersey is worse then Venezuela
Two Kennedy’s went down
Bump
If any Republican, now in office or newly elected, cowardly caves in to any attempt to legitimize this fraudulent travesty of a corrupt election (like the Quisling Bushes and Romneys) by participating in any activities of a criminal tyranny fraudulently instituted, then they, too, are treasonous traitors and no better than the treacherous Marxocrats. If the GOPe does not stop this monstrous fraud, then the Republican Party will disappear, regardless of who won this or that election this past week. President Trump should establish a government in exile that will be supported by the over 71 million people who elected him. We could then begin Civil War 2.0 to recover the Republic.
NJ Worse than Venezuela? I think NJ is a lot like the whole US with pockets of conservatism here and there. Maybe more like California.
In my county, Hunterdon, we re-elected a newbie green congressman Malinowski by a comfortable margin over Tom Kean’s son. But the surprise was Trump lost the county. He won last time.
I have noticed a definite shift in the politics here in the last 20 years. More Greens and transplant NY city dwellers. The old small business and farming conservatives are dying out. Gentlemen or is it gentleperson farmers aren’t conservative.
They ran ads against him nonstop. I’m glad he won solely out of spite for being subjected to it for weeks.
“”There are a lot of people in the district who really respect someone who can be independent-minded,””
She must be smoking some really good stuff!! They castigate the man for changing parties and then can make a remark like that without any shame? Independent-minded? That’s exactly what he showed them! But then none of the Kennedys were terribly intelligent so why would one marry a woman who was any smarter than he was?
No argument with that at all, maybe just a minor suggestion that there is no "voting system" here - seats of NJ State "elected officials" are bought and paid-for long before the theater of "elections" is put in front of "voting" Citizens. Plenty of Freepers will take exception to my comments (where's your proof?) but that's just gaslighting.
It would be nice to see an "election" with some basic level of integrity in NJ before I pass on. I'm not hopeful.
The name Kennedy is not interesting anymore. Means nothing.
One exception: Senator John N. Kennedy, Republican of Louisiana, a staunch and very vocal pro-Trumper. Coincidentally, he also was a former Democrat who switched to Republican.
I live in Ocean County. It’s largely conservative. Monmouth to the north has always been liberal.
The GOP is projected to win 10 seats, last I heard.
You need a mind to lose it...😀
Very true. He’s awesome!!!!!
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