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Republican: Jo Ann Emerson: Missouri: 8th: January 3, 1997 105th: Republican: Independent Emerson was re-elected to a full term as an independent after running under that designation to comply with Missouri's electoral law. January 8, 1997 Independent Republican: Michael Forbes: New York: 1st: July 17, 1999 106th: Republican: Democratic: Virgil ...
Then, a decade ago, my political perspective changed, and I moved from R, the Republican Party, to my current status as an NPA, an independent voter with “no party affiliation.”
2000 – Rick Jore, Montana state representative to U.S. Constitution Party. [325] 2012 – Gary Johnson, former governor of New Mexico (1995–2003), switched to the Libertarian Party and became their nominee for President of the United States in both the 2012 election and 2016 election. 2012 – Buddy Roemer, former governor of Louisiana ...
Republican. Independent. Caucused with the Democrats after becoming an independent, giving Democrats a majority in the US Senate. His switch became the only time in US history that a party switch resulted in a change of party control of the Senate. [29][30] Robert M. La Follette Jr.
v. t. e. In politics of the United States, party switching is any change in party affiliation of a partisan public figure, usually one who holds an elected office. Use of the term "party switch" can also connote a transfer of holding power in an elected governmental body from one party to another.
If this continues, we may return to a two-party system by default: Democrats and Independents, with Republicans reduced to a regional oddity, like George Wallace’s American Independent Party or ...
The American Independent Party (AIP) is a far-right political party in the United States that was established in 1967. The AIP is best known for its nomination of Democratic then-former Governor George Wallace of Alabama, who carried five states in the 1968 presidential election running on a populist, hard-line anti-Communist, pro-"law and order" platform, appealing to working-class white ...
Trump speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in 2015. Trump registered as a Republican in Manhattan in 1987; since that time, he has changed his party affiliation five times. In 1999, he changed his party affiliation to the Independence Party of New York. In August 2001, Trump changed his party affiliation to Democratic.