Timeline for Congressman Jeff Van Drew is switching parties over Trump impeachment: has this ever happened before?
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| Jan 11, 2020 at 1:17 | comment | added | mherzl | I have rephrased the question, which I hope will satisfy commentators while preserving the voice of the original question. | |
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| Jan 10, 2020 at 15:29 | comment | added | PoloHoleSet | @AbraCadaver - If you'll note the edit made by OP, the wording now gives a completely different connotation, without losing the representative's stated reason for switching, which is what I was after with my comments. | |
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| Jan 4, 2020 at 12:11 | history | edited | Rick Smith | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 4, 2020 at 3:40 | history | edited | mherzl | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 4, 2020 at 0:19 | history | rollback | Batman |
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| Jan 3, 2020 at 22:13 | history | edited | mherzl | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 3, 2020 at 18:56 | history | edited | Batman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Question that try to promote or discredit a specific political cause are off-topic, so this edit is necessary to make it on-topic.
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| Jan 3, 2020 at 14:28 | comment | added | mherzl | In a strict sense, the house's vote to impeach was partisan because it was along party lines. But more saliently, it was partisan due to the political pressure made by the advocating party, as described by Congressman Van Drew himself. It is the reason he gave for having made the party switch. m.youtube.com/watch?v=73WWbeV5ms8 | |
| Jan 3, 2020 at 13:28 | history | edited | mherzl | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 3, 2020 at 13:21 | comment | added | President James K. Polk | Off-topic, but just because he said he's switching because of the impeachment doesn't mean it's true. I'd wager a large part of why he's switching is because he lives in a conservative district (does he?). | |
| Jan 3, 2020 at 5:26 | vote | accept | mherzl | ||
| Jan 3, 2020 at 2:49 | comment | added | zibadawa timmy | @user2705196 While I understand that perspective, this site, and overall SE network, aims to be an independent Q&A forum that is a first point of reference for people seeking answers. In particular, it is not to be subordinated to wikipedia. As such the objection "wikipedia did it" is rather weak. | |
| Jan 2, 2020 at 22:00 | comment | added | user2705196 | There's literally a wikipedia page to answer this question. Asking it thus shows no prior attempt to answer it. | |
| Jan 2, 2020 at 17:27 | history | edited | Batman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 2, 2020 at 16:34 | comment | added | PoloHoleSet | @AbraCadaver - As I said before, that has nothing to do with the person asking the question framing it that way. The way it shows up in the question is the person asking is stating that it is a partisan impeachment, not that the Congressperson feels that way, or that it was the stated rationale. If a liberal got into hot water for saying that Trump is an a-hole, and I posted a question saying they got into trouble "for criticizing the a-hole President," people would and should take that to be a characterization I am making. | |
| Jan 2, 2020 at 16:30 | comment | added | AbraCadaver | @PoloHoleSet The congressman framed it “It was supposed to be bipartisan, it was supposed to be incontrovertible. It was supposed to be something that was always on the rarest of circumstances,” Van Drew told reporters about impeachment earlier this week. “Well it’s not bipartisan.” So that's his reason for doing it, whether you agree or not. | |
| Jan 2, 2020 at 16:28 | comment | added | PoloHoleSet | @AbraCadaver - That isn't relevant to how the person asking the question frames the impeachment. | |
| Jan 2, 2020 at 16:27 | comment | added | AbraCadaver | @PoloHoleSet: Both, that being said, the congressman switched parties over the impeachment not the opposition to impeachment. Also, that may be the congressman's wording "partisan impeachment" (not sure). | |
| Jan 2, 2020 at 16:25 | comment | added | PoloHoleSet | @AbraCadaver - Does that make the impeachment partisan, or does that make the opposition to impeachment partisan? If Trump would. on camera, "stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody," would an impeachment be partisan, or would those voting against it be the one's acting partisan? | |
| Jan 2, 2020 at 16:11 | comment | added | AbraCadaver | @DmitriZaitsev: because the vote was along "party" lines maybe? | |
| S Jan 2, 2020 at 15:55 | history | suggested | Lightness Races in Orbit | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 2, 2020 at 11:20 | answer | added | mjt | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 2, 2020 at 8:36 | comment | added | Dmitri Zaitsev | Why "partisan"? | |
| Jan 2, 2020 at 6:28 | comment | added | reirab | @zibadawatimmy Tanner is correct. Justin Amash left the Republican party, but most certainly did not become a Democrat. He's a (staunch) libertarian. His views are almost 180 degrees from those of the Democratic House leadership. The last member of Congress I can think of off-hand who switched R-to-D was Arlen Specter back in 2009. He was badly trailing his challenger in the Republican primary for 2010, so he switched parties and ran as a Democrat instead. However, he ended up losing that primary, too, and his GOP challenger won the general. | |
| Jan 2, 2020 at 5:12 | comment | added | Sophie Swett | @zibadawatimmy You must be thinking of Justin Amash, who left the Republican Party in July 2019 but did not join the Democratic Party. | |
| Jan 2, 2020 at 3:57 | comment | added | user29681 | Do you mean switching parties over an impeachment specifically, or switching parties over a specific issue, or just switching parties in general? | |
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| Jan 2, 2020 at 2:05 | comment | added | AquaticFire | Maybe it would be more interesting to ask if any Congress members switched parties over impeachment before? | |
| Jan 2, 2020 at 1:26 | comment | added | zibadawa timmy | Didn't it happen just a few months ago, with a Republican switching to Democrat? | |
| Jan 1, 2020 at 21:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPolitics/status/1212478740644667392 | ||
| Jan 1, 2020 at 19:27 | vote | accept | mherzl | ||
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| Jan 1, 2020 at 18:35 | answer | added | Rick Smith | timeline score: 39 | |
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| Jan 1, 2020 at 18:16 | history | asked | mherzl | CC BY-SA 4.0 |