Jeff Van Drew Doesn't Play With The Team!

Jeff Van Drew is the reason to why Democrats can never move forward. The conservative lawmaker breaks with Democrats against impeachment of Donald Trump.

Fox News loves hosting rebellious Democrats. They believe that a handful of far-white Democrats speak for the party as a whole. Fox News wants to create the narrative that Democrats are concerned that the party is moving to the left. With lawmakers like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) being demonized by the far-white, it seems like Fox News needs a Democrat to vouch for them.

Not only they got Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) on their primetime line up but they got freshman Democrat, Rep. Jeff Van Drew (D-NJ) on the program giving his thoughts to the impeachment of Donald J. Trump.

The lawmaker has signaled he's not on board with the Articles of Impeachment.

Van Drew who represents the Republican-leaning 2nd Congressional District will see a primary challenger. His district covers Atlantic City, Cape May, Ocean City, Vineland and Bridgeton.

Van Drew lives in Dennis Township near Ocean City.

You might want to sit down for this one. This guy is a former dentist.

Progressive ire toward Trump puts many House Democrats in a political bind. Polls increasingly show that swing states and districts oppose removing Trump from office. Indeed, a recent Marquette Law School poll found that Wisconsin voters, who backed Trump in 2016 with a margin smaller than one percentage point, oppose removing him from office by a whopping 13 points. Even the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee found that opening the impeachment inquiry was favored with only a one-percentage-point margin — 49 to 48 — among voters in 57 "battleground districts."

The DCCC poll hides even worse news for members such as Van Drew. Since polls show the inquiry is more popular than removal from office, it stands to reason that battleground district voters likely opposed removal in the DCCC poll. Furthermore, those tiny margins of support for impeachment is bad news for the Democrat's majority. In 2018, Democrats gained 22 seats that Hillary Clinton had carried in 2016. Given that such Democratic-leaning seats were clearly included in the 57-seat sample and that support for the inquiry and removal breaks sharply on partisan lines, it’s reasonable to assume that support for impeachment is behind in other Republican-leaning seats, such as Van Drew's.

That is a huge potential problem for House Democrats, who currently hold 31 seats Trump carried in 2016. With passions over impeachment running so high and opinions sharply split on partisan grounds, voting for the inquiry was an incredibly risky vote for any Democrat representing one of these seats. Despite that, only Minnesota's Collin Peterson — who represents the most Republican district in the country held by a Democrat — joined Van Drew in opposing the inquiry. Republicans need only 17 of these seats to win back the House.

He is one of them Blue Dog Democrats who vote with Republicans on issues like cutting the safety net, supporting endless wars, establishing class warfare legislation like repealing the Affordable Care Act and mandating abortions illegal. They are Democrat-lite in my opinion.

A party that supports progressive views is always told to move to the center. The Republicans are told to move to the middle and yet they never do. They continue to push further into fascism.

At least three Democrats are said to be exploring running against Van Drew because of his impeachment apostasy. It doesn’t seem to matter to them that he was simply voting his district. Even former Democratic congressman Patrick Kennedy, who represented Rhode Island and now calls South Jersey home, tossed a hand grenade in Van Drew’s lap. “If he votes no on impeachment … I wouldn’t be the only one around here who will be marking him absent from now on,” the son of Democratic icon Ted Kennedy told local press.