<p><br> After 35 unbroken years as a loyal member of Grand Old Party, GOP, {Republican}, an Iowa&#8217;s longest-serving lawmaker, Andy McKean, has joined the Democrat Party.<br> Coming just ahead of US presidential election, Mckean, who revealed this on Tuesday, stated that he took the painful decision because of President Donald Trump, who he described as a &#8220;a poor example for the nation and particularly for our children.&#8221;<br> Mckean has served in both Iowa&#8217;s Senate and House chambers.<br> &#8220;With the 2020 president election looming on the horizon, I feel as a Republican that I need to be able to support the standard bearer of our party. Unfortunately, that is not something I am able to do,&#8221; McKean said at a news conference.<br> &#8220;He sets, in my opinion, a poor example for the nation and particularly for our children by personally insulting &#8212; often in a crude and juvenile fashion &#8212; those who disagree with him, being a bully at a time when we we are attempting to discourage bullying, his frequent disregard for the truth and his willingness to ridicule or marginalize people for their appearance, ethnicity or disability,&#8221; McKean said.<br> McKean&#8217;s explanation speaks to the political challenges facing some Republicans across the nation about whether to stand with a President who has brazenly disregarded the traditional norms of decorum that for centuries have defined the office. <br> His defection also comes soon after the release of a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election revealed a President and administration that frequently lie on an array of matters.<br> McKean&#8217;s district sits in two rural, blue-collar counties in Iowa &#8212; Jones and Jackson. Because Iowa is both a perennial swing state and a battleground state, it is often used as a litmus test for the direction both parties are moving . Though Trump has only one announced Republican challenger, Iowa could be an important state for the President to win in the general election.<br> McKean&#8217;s defection puts the Democrats four seats away from taking control of the Iowa House, according to the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee.<br> &#8220;I believe that it is just a matter of time before our party pays a heavy price for President Trump&#8217;s reckless spending and shortsighted financial policies, his erratic, destabilizing foreign policy and his disregard for environmental concerns,&#8221; McKean added.</p>

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