Democrats are pushing to remove President Trump from office after Wednesday’s Capitol riots, but Rep. Jeff Van Drew, RN.J., is asking President-elect Joe Biden to oppose the impeachment, saying it would divide the country.
“I’m asking President-elect Joe Biden to say enough,” he told Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures. “Let’s try to be together.”
Van Drew said that bringing everyone together will be “very difficult”, but the first step towards unity, he said, is to abandon the impeachment request.
Biden said he is leaving the impeachment decision to Congress.
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“Loss of money, waste of time,” he said. “The division [impeachment] will cause in the United States of America. Tens of millions of people still voted and still support Donald Trump. “
In this image from the video, Rep. Jeff Van Drew, RN.J., speaks as the House debates the objection to confirm the Pennsylvania Electoral College vote on the US Capitol on Thursday, January 7, 2021. ( House Television via AP)
The now Republican congressman, who was a lifelong Democrat, changed parties in 2019.
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“I really wondered what the party stood for,” he said, explaining the change. “And as I said in the [Republican] convention – be true to yourself; not to a party that has already existed and is no more. “
Georgia state deputy Vernon Jones announced last week that he too is moving to the Republican Party. He joined Van Drew on Sunday to discuss his own cue to abandon the ship.
“I felt that the Democratic Party abandoned me. I did not abandon them,” he explained. “Your party now of socialism is killing the job market and companies … They want to raise taxes on hard-working people.”
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“I felt that I would no longer identify with them and wanted to bring new and great ideas to the Grand Party,” he said.