Breitbart: Democrat Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey officially announced his decision to switch political parties and pledged his support for President Donald Trump on Thursday.
“I believe that this is just a better fit for me,” Van Drew told reporters on Thursday at the White House. “This is who I am. It’s who I always was, but there was more tolerance of moderate Democrats, of Blue Dog Democrats, of Conservative Democrats, and I think that’s going away.”
Van Drew met with Trump in the Oval Office together with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Vice President Mike Pence to discuss his decision.
Trump called his decision a “big deal” noting that it had been about ten years since a member of Congress switched parties to become a Republican.
“It’s a very big deal,” McCarthy agreed. “Because he’s going from the majority to the minority. It normally doesn’t go that way.”
“Yeah, but he’s very smart because he knows it’s not going to be the minority for long,” Trump replied. “I have a feeling we’re going to do very well in 2020.”
Van Drew noted that one of his political heroes continued to be former President Ronald Reagan.
“He said, ‘I didn’t leave my party, my party left me,” Van Drew said. “I’m saying the same thing.”
The former Democrat pledged his support for Trump in the next election.
“You have my undying support, and always,” Van Drew said. more
Anybody ask this guy how he feels about guns? Just sayen
I wonder if he just trying to save his political career doing this. Smells fishy to me.
He’s already better than Romney and Susan Collins.
https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/24685/jeff-van-drew/37/guns
Well, I will embrace him as a newcomer and hope that he and PDJT learn to understand “the peoples right shall NOT be infringed”…..
“The first stage in the corruption of morals is the banishment of truth …”
Michel de Montaigne
He seems flaky and will probably change his tune in 2024, but for now he’s on board the Trump train. If he’s a traitor the Trump “Effect” will settle things like it did for McCain, Cummings and Dingell.
Bullshit. This is how two parties become one.
Keep your word or die is what I’m thinking. NSA…go fuck yourselves.
It just goes to show that the two parties the same. They argue about peripheral agendas and nibble around the edges. But the two parties are a globalist uni-party.
Am I expected to support this fucking ass wagon? A political hack who is more concerned about his political position than the Americans who voted him in? What a shitbag.