#party switching

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Eric Adams wants to stay mayor, even if he has to run as a Republican

Embattled New York City Mayor Eric Adams is considering switching parties and running for reelection as a Republican, according to The New Y

Alex Samuels at Daily Kos:

Embattled New York City Mayor Eric Adams is considering switching parties and running for reelection as a Republican, according to The New York Times.  The Times, which cited an unnamed Republican official and two people close with Adams, said the mayor has been deliberating for weeks whether to change parties (for the, uh, third time) as polls show him in deep trouble. But conversations about switching parties picked up steam around the time the U.S. Department of Justice ordered federal prosecutors to drop corruption charges against Adams. Adams spoke with Bronx Republican Party Chair Mike Rendino on Monday, per The Times. Separately, Adams connected with the chairwoman of the Manhattan Republican Party, though it’s unclear whether the race was discussed.  “He just wanted to speak about pleasantries,” Rendino said of his conversation with Adams. “I said, ‘Let’s not beat around the bush, you’re obviously calling for more than that.’” Rendino said he laid out two paths for the mayor: rejoining the GOP or seeking a waiver from local Republican leaders to run on their ballot line without switching parties.  It’s unclear whether President Donald Trump or his administration are playing a role in the discussions. But it wouldn’t be shocking if Adams’ thank-you to the president for the DOJ’s actions was him returning to the Republican Party. After all, Adams was a registered Republican from 1995 to 2002 before switching over to the Democratic Party. (He also ran in a Democratic primary in 1994.) And while he was under federal indictment for alleged bribery and campaign finance offenses, he played coy about whether he’d rejoin the GOP. 

New York Mayor Eric Adams ("D") could be angling to run on the Republican line for the upcoming mayoral election, either by formally rejoining the Republicans or getting a Wilson Pakula dispensation.

[commonsensecommentary]

Is this the inflection point for Joe Manchin? Biden boned him on the Inflation Reduction Act by turning it into an anti-fossil fuels money pot and has put his Senate seat in jeopardy. Time to switch parties and become a Republican?

Poll: Manchin Trails GOP Challenger by Double Digits

Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) is in trouble in a potential matchup against his newly declared opponent, West Virginia governor Jim Justice (R.),

[squirrelstone]

I can’t remember who it was but I can’t believe a legislator changed parties like a week after getting elected and basically faced no consequences. I can’t even find anything about him now, but I remember getting the news and being absolutely disgusted.

Like it’s already bad enough to switch parties midterm cause it’s not what your constituents elected you for, but a week after you were elected? How is that not cause for an immediate impeachment or recall reelection?

[ms-myself]

More than 1 million voters switch to GOP in warning for Dems

WASHINGTON (AP) — A political shift is beginning to take hold across the U.S. as tens of thousands of suburban swing voters who helped fuel

The broad migration of more than 1 million voters, a small portion of the overall U.S. electorate, does not ensure widespread Republican success in the November midterm elections, which will determine control of Congress and dozens of governorships. Democrats are hoping the Supreme Court’s decision on Friday to overrule Roe v. Wade will energize supporters, particularly in the suburbs, ahead of the midterms.

Still, the details about party switchers present a dire warning for Democrats who were already concerned about the macro effects shaping the political landscape this fall.

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Joe Scarborough SLAMS Trump And GOP Leadership In Scathing Op-Ed (VIDEO)

Joe Scarborough SLAMS Trump And GOP Leadership In Scathing Op-Ed (VIDEO)

Last week, Joe Scarborough dropped by “The Late Show” to announce that he was leaving the Republican Party to become an independent. He said that he’d been driven out by both Donald Trump and Republicans’ spinelessness toward Trump’s many outrages. This would be a big deal in and of itself, but is an even bigger deal when you consider that Scarborough was a member of the “Gingrich Gang” of 1995.

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Joe Scarborough SLAMS Trump And GOP Leadership In Scathing Op-Ed (VIDEO)

Joe Scarborough SLAMS Trump And GOP Leadership In Scathing Op-Ed (VIDEO)

Last week, Joe Scarborough dropped by “The Late Show” to announce that he was leaving the Republican Party to become an independent. He said that he’d been driven out by both Donald Trump and Republicans’ spinelessness toward Trump’s many outrages. This would be a big deal in and of itself, but is an even bigger deal when you consider that Scarborough was a member of the “Gingrich Gang” of 1995.

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Do People Change?

Did I change from a person with conservative ideals to one with progressive ideals, or am I fulfilling the person my parents raised me to be?

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Switchers

In After Hope and Change, we discuss the relative strength of the parties in 2012.  At National Review Online, Katrina Trinko notes some switchers:

In West Virginia, a fed-up Democratic state senator is changing parties — and hoping to represent his state in Congress.

State senator Evan Jenkins is done with President Obama’s vision for America. “The Obama agenda has become crystal clear,” he says, pointing to the president’s support for “immigration reform that includes amnesty provisions” as well as “his limitations on our constitutional rights relating to gun ownership,” “his environmental agenda, which spells the end of coal and coal jobs,” and “the government takeover of health care.”

“Those are issues and positions that I just simply won’t embrace,” Jenkins adds, “and the Republican party is much more aligned with how I feel on the issues and priorities.”

Artur Davis, a former Alabama Democratic congressman who became a Republican last year and now lives in Virginia, sees Jenkins as part of a larger trend, one that the mainstream media are generally ignoring.

“It happens all the time in these more conservative states,” Davis says of Democrats becoming Republicans. “The reality is that the press rarely notes it.”

“In the state of Alabama, something like thirteen to fourteen elected Democrats have switched parties since 2010,” he continues. “The Alabama Republican-party chairman was telling me last year that at one point virtually every white Democrat in the Alabama legislature had reached out to them, with one or two exceptions,” to discuss switching to the GOP.