{"id":199648,"date":"2019-12-20T06:32:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T06:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/trump-campaign-launches-democrats-for-trump-seeking-disaffected-liberals.html"},"modified":"2019-12-20T06:32:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T06:32:20","slug":"trump-campaign-launches-democrats-for-trump-seeking-disaffected-liberals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/trump-campaign-launches-democrats-for-trump-seeking-disaffected-liberals.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump campaign launches &#8216;Democrats for Trump,&#8217; seeking disaffected liberals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/b17e4_694940094001_6117125267001_6117126440001-vs.jpg\" alt=\"How impeachment became a money magnet for Trump campaign\" \/><span class=\"overlay\">Video<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"title\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">How impeachment became a money magnet for Trump campaign<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Ronna McDaniel, RNC chairwoman, explains how the Trump campaign has raised millions off the Democrats impeachment of the president<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Has the left gone too left, making the right the new center?<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The Trump reelection campaign is betting that \u201cdisaffected Democrats\u201d have had enough of radical progressivism, launching <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">the \u201cDemocrats for Trump\u201d coalition<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the sham impeachment to the outright embrace of socialism, the Democrat party of today is unrecognizable and leaving moderate Democrats behind,\u201d said <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">President Trump\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0campaign manager, Brad Parscale, in a statement. \u201cFor Democrats who feel abandoned by the socialist radicalization of their party, there is room for you on Team Trump and we welcome you to join the movement and a President that are putting America first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parscale also took to Twitter to release campaign internal polling showing the possibility of Democrats holding House seats in districts won by Trump in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>He tweeted: \u201cHouse Dems sitting in @realDonaldTrump won districts know a vote for impeachment is a vote to lose their seats in 2020. Internal polling shows voters in those districts OPPOSE impeachment by 10 points. &#x2b07;&#xfe0f;\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">THE LATEST FROM FOX NEWS ON THE TRUMP IMPEACHMENT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The campaign said its new coalition is for moderate liberals who want to work with Trump-led conservatives on lowering prescription drug costs, passing strong trade deals\u00a0and fixing America\u2019s infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump speaks for a generation of Democrats who feel abandoned by today\u2019s partisan tactics,\u201d\u00a0said\u00a0Tony Mace, Cibola County, New Mexico, sheriff, in a statement from the campaign. \u201cCoastal\u00a0elitists\u00a0and left-wing radicals\u00a0have seized the Democrat Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/9d388_694940094001_6117080505001_6117075998001-vs.jpg\" alt=\"Sarah Sanders: Impeachment sham will help Trump get reelected\" \/><span class=\"overlay\">Video<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also Thursday,\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Jeff Van Drew, the\u00a0New Jersey congressman<\/a> who broke with the Dems\u00a0to vote against Trump\u2019s <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">\u00a0impeachment<\/a>, officially switched parties and became a Republican.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJeff will be joining the Republican Party,\u201d Trump announced during an Oval Office event with Van Drew.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s a big deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that this is just a better fit for me,\u201d Van Drew said of his decision, promising Trump his \u201cundying support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is who I am, it\u2019s who I always was, but there was more tolerance of moderate Democrats, of Blue Dog Democrats, of conservative Democrats,\u201d said Van Drew, \u201cand I think that\u2019s going away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Van Drew on Wednesday broke with his party and voted against impeaching Trump \u2014 a move that bolstered GOP attempts to depict Democrats as divided on the matter. Republicans voted unanimously against it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/639fd_694940094001_6117177770001_6117168320001-vs.jpg\" alt=\"Rep. Jeff Van Drew announces he's switched from Democrat to Republican during Oval Office meeting with Trump\" \/><span class=\"overlay\">Video<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Wednesday night\u2019s House vote<\/a>, almost entirely along party lines, made the president just the third in U.S. history to be impeached. The House impeached Trump on two charges \u2014 abusing his presidential power and obstructing Congress \u2014 stemming from his pressure on Ukraine to announce investigations of his political rival as Trump withheld U.S. aid.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Impeachment may prove increasingly unpopular among moderates in\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">key battleground states.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/feeds.foxnews.com\/~r\/foxnews\/politics\/~3\/faVk5FK2dlM\/trump-campaign-launches-democrats-for-trump-seeking-disaffected-liberals<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video How impeachment became a money magnet for Trump campaign Ronna McDaniel, RNC chairwoman, explains how the Trump campaign has raised millions off the Democrats impeachment of the president Has the left gone too left, making the right the new center? The Trump reelection campaign is betting that \u201cdisaffected Democrats\u201d have had enough of radical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-199648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}