{"id":229,"date":"2024-12-31T12:43:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T12:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2024\/12\/31\/democrat-turned-maga-republican-spins-heads-with-lightning-fast-180-regarding-trump-yahoo-voices\/"},"modified":"2024-12-31T12:43:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T12:43:03","slug":"democrat-turned-maga-republican-spins-heads-with-lightning-fast-180-regarding-trump-yahoo-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2024\/12\/31\/democrat-turned-maga-republican-spins-heads-with-lightning-fast-180-regarding-trump-yahoo-voices\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat-Turned-MAGA Republican Spins Heads With Lightning-Fast 180 Regarding Trump – Yahoo! Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Social media users mocked Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.) for a word salad explanation for why he was backing House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to continue in the leadership role.<\/p>\n

Van Drew\u2019s comments on Fox Business contained contradictions and signs of utter subservience to President-elect Donald Trump, critics said.<\/p>\n

The congressman \u2015 who defected from the Democrats in 2019 in protest<\/a> against the first impeachment of Trump and whose Iranian \u201cmothership\u201d claims earlier this month about drone sightings was swatted down by the Pentagon<\/a> \u2015 was asked if he supported Johnson\u2019s bid to retain the top House job.<\/p>\n

Trump himself has endorsed Johnson<\/a> to remain in the position.<\/p>\n

Van Drew said: \u201cI am supporting the speaker and let me say, if, you know, I hear from President Donald Trump, who I do speak with relatively regularly and I have a relationship with him, to the contrary, that would change my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cLet me say this, I\u2019m a very independent person. So, I get it. I get it. Members of Congress want to express their individual viewpoint, \u2019We\u2019re a coequal branch of government, etc, etc\u2026 but there was a mandate from the people of the United States of America in both the popular vote and the electoral vote to make change.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time for Republicans to \u201cput our big boy pants on,\u201d \u201cwork together and get stuff done,\u201d \u201cstop acting goofy\u201d and focus,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Watch the Fox Business clip here:<\/p>\n

Critics, though, were dubious about his \u201cvery independent\u201d claim, given his apparent willingness to ditch his own view if Trump demanded so.<\/p>\n

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Social media users mocked Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.) for a word salad explanation for why he was backing House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to continue in the leadership role. Van Drew\u2019s comments on Fox Business contained contradictions and signs of utter subservience to President-elect Donald Trump, critics said. The congressman \u2015 who defected from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}