Ai, if this is true (or / and perhaps even when it’s not), it could hurt Senator John McCain: Democratic lawmakers say that John McCain was ready to leave the GOP in 2001 “weeks before then-Sen. Jim Jeffords (Vt.) famously announced his decision to become an Independent�.
Former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) and ex-Rep. Tom Downey (D-N.Y.) told The Hill that they were involved in the discussions with McCain about this matter.
It all started when Downey was having lunch with McCain’s top strategist Weaver. Weaver asked Downey why the Democrats hadn’t “asked McCain to switch parties.�
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