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Anonymous ID: 8b0c74 Dec. 15, 2019, 12:10 a.m. No.7512524   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>2672 >>2753 >>2782 >>2813

Impeachment drama: Democrat defects after plea from Trump

 

Democrat-controlled House expected vote to impeach US President Donald Trump

The Republican-controlled Senate is then all but certain to acquit Trump after a trial in January

Published: 11:45am, 15 Dec, 2019 South China Morning Post

 

A anti-impeachment Democrat congressman will join the Republican Party in the coming days – delivering a political jolt to Democrats ahead of this week’s expected vote to impeach US President Donald Trump. Jeff Van Drew, a House freshman from New Jersey, joined Trump for a lengthy Friday meeting, during which Trump urged him to join the Republican Party.

Top House Republicans and House Democratic leaders have been told of Van Drew’s decision, according to officials familiar with conversations. Trump will undoubtedly hail the move as a sign that the impeachment “hoax” is faltering just as the full House of Representatives prepares to vote on impeachment this coming week.

 

Van Drew’s decision underscores the pressures facing moderate Democrats from Trump-leaning districts as this 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. There are 31 House Democrats who represent districts Trump carried in the 2016 election, and many of them have been nervous about the political repercussions they would face by voting to impeach Trump.

 

The House Republican campaign committee has already run ads targeting many of them, but most are expected to support Trump’s impeachment.

 

A senior Democratic aide provided what was described as a poll conducted earlier this month by Van Drew’s campaign showing that by more than a 2-1 margin, people in his district would prefer a different candidate than Van Drew in the Democratic primary and general election.

 

Rumours surfaced this month that Van Drew might switch parties, and he repeatedly denied them to reporters. But he reaffirmed his plan to oppose impeachment, barring new evidence.

 

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3042150/impeachment-saga-democrat-defects-after-plea-trump

 

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