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Former Democrat offers advice for Texas mayor under fire for ditching Dem Party to join GOP
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Republican New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew, a former Democrat, shared his advice for Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson, who made a similar party switch last week.
"I appreciate what he did, and, as the mayor of Dallas, he came to the same conclusion that I did. He just didn't fit into the party anymore," Van Drew said. "You know, I was just constantly arguing, voting against all the different things they wanted to do. And it climaxed with the Trump impeachment, which was baseless and false." Brandon Gillespie is an associate editor at Fox News. Follow him on Twitter at @brandon_cg.
"What they've done to our Department of Justice, what they've done to our FBI, what the attorney general has done, what the FBI director has done, what our secretary of state did and still does, all of this is awful," he added. "[Johnson] knows that this is wrong, and he came to the right conclusion. And I'd tell him to follow his heart and his brain and he will be fine."