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« on: November 28, 2019, 03:03:50 PM »

Pretty weird that Van Drew is opposing impeachment when Democrats in more Republican districts are supporting it.
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« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2019, 06:57:33 PM »

As a matter of democratic legitimacy, if he does switch he should consider resigning and running in a special election as a Republican. Most people who voted for him wanted to be represented by a Democrat and NJ-02 voters should have the chance to decide whether they want to be represented by a Republican.
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« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2019, 02:51:22 PM »

Remember when the DCCC intervened in the primary to clear the field for this dope?

Most Democratic voters would be elated with a recruit who flipped a district held by Republicans for a quarter century, voted for a $15 minimum wage, voted repeatedly against Border Wall funding, voted to ban offshore drilling in the Gulf, supported a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, opposed a transgender military ban, supported requiring background checks on firearm sales, voted to fund federal agencies during the government shutdown, and voted with Trump less often than multiple members of the Squad, but sure go off about how this is a failure of the DCCC rather than the buffoonish acts of one terrified boob who is afraid of voting for a position three quarters of his primary electorate supports.

The problem is that the ''boob'' has some reasons to be worried about voting for impeachment, NJ-2 is a Trumpist district where the impeachment circus is unpopular with the general electorate,. Moving to the far left to win the primary and then losing the general election is not a smart calculus

Not really, a Democrat can totally survive voting for impeachment in a district Trump won by a few points, and given how it polls nationwide impeachment support is probably about even in that district anyway.
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