Democrats : third lawmaker leaves party, switches to Republican

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   Readmikenowposted 2 years ago

   Will this trend continue?
   
   "Democrats dealt another blow: third lawmaker leaves party, switches to Republican within a month
   Louisiana state Rep. Jeremy LaCombe is the third Democrat in less than a month to switch parties
   
   Democrats were dealt another blow from within their own ranks this week as yet another state lawmaker declared he was leaving the party.
   
   According to a Monday report by The Advocate, a Louisiana-based newspaper, state Rep. Jeremy LaCombe announced he had left the Democratic Party and would be registering as a Republican.
   
   The switches come as President Biden faces a near-record low approval rating among key groups, including women (43% now vs. 42% low), voters ages 45+ (41% vs. 39% low), suburban voters (41% vs. 39% low), rural voters (31% vs. 30% low) and Democrats (81% vs. 78% low) – Democratic men in particular (79% vs. 78% low), according to a recent Fox News poll.
   
   Biden is also at a low mark of 41% approval among suburban women. "
   
   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democr … republican

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      Kathleen Cochranposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      Whichever party is involved, I don't understand how an officeholder elected to represent a party can switch during the term he/she was elected. Is that not fraud or election tampering or misrepresentation for the people who put that person in office?

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         Readmikenowposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         Actually, this is something that happens all the time. Usually after a landslide election. democrats turn into Republicans and Republicans become democrats. What makes this unusual is it is happening before a major election and three in one month.  This is a non-election year which makes it unusual.
         
         I wonder if this is an indication of anything. Politicians know more about what it happening with the political pulse of the country than any of us.

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         wildernessposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         An honest, thoughtful voter does not vote for a party; they vote for a candidate that expresses their own views.  That one changes party affiliation half way through simply indicates that they feel they will get more votes from those individuals that DO vote a party line.  Or that they will more help in their specific plans from the other party; it is a foregone conclusion that politicians DO vote a party line.
         
         Or possibly that they feel the "new" party more closely aligns with their own views, although I'm jaded enough to think that they don't really care about that.

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   Kathleen Cochranposted 2 years ago

   Apparently the law says the voter elected the person not the party.

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      GA Andersonposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      That seems right.
      
      GA

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         Readmikenowposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         Does anyone remember Arlen Specter? He was a US Senator from Pennsylvania who switched from the Republican to the democrat party. His nickname was "Specter the defector." That's the most famous party switch that I can remember.

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