{"id":393051,"date":"2021-04-06T15:28:46","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T19:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=393051"},"modified":"2021-04-06T15:28:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T19:28:49","slug":"nevada-mayor-leaves-democrat-party-they-have-extremist-agenda-gop-is-working-class-party-of-opportunity-hope-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nevada-mayor-leaves-democrat-party-they-have-extremist-agenda-gop-is-working-class-party-of-opportunity-hope-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Nevada Mayor Leaves Democrat Party: They Have \u2018Extremist Agenda\u2019, GOP Is Working Class Party Of Opportunity, Hope, Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnevada-mayor-leaves-democrat-party-they-have-extremist-agenda-gop-is-working-class-party-of-opportunity-hope-freedom%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=393051&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-584.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee announced on Tuesday morning that he has left the Democratic Party after a \u201csocialist\u201d takeover of the party in the state of Nevada and has joined the Republican Party because he believes it is the party of the working class, opportunity, and freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Lee made the announcement on his campaign website and then joined Fox News\u2019s \u201cFOX &amp; Friends\u201d to discuss it, saying that the Democratic Party is run by \u201ccard-carrying socialists\u201d in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The Nevada Democratic Party \u201chad an election recently for leadership, and four of the five people were card carrying members of the Socialist Party,\u201d Lee said. \u201cIt\u2019s not the party that I grew up with 25 years ago in this environment, and it\u2019s not the party I can stand with anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lee said that the Democratic Party has abandoned the working class and is an elitist party that does not support individual liberty.<\/p>\n<p>On his campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.votejohnlee.com\/\">website<\/a>, Lee said that he made the switch in his heart \u201ca long time ago\u201d and warned that Democrats \u201cdemands a senseless devotion to cancel culture, socialism, and anti-American values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lee warned that Democrats have embraced an \u201cextremist agenda\u201d that is \u201cradically\u201d different from what the party used to be. \u201cTheir ideas hurt working class families, restrict freedom, and extinguish opportunity for millions of Americans \u2013 particularly working class minorities who deserve the chance to give their families a better life,\u201d Lee wrote. \u201cThe Republican Party that\u2019s emerged from President Trump\u2019s leadership is a working class party of opportunity, freedom, and hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"This mayor is leaving &#039;socialist&#039; Dems to join &#039;working class&#039; GOP\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RH_NeUM00HI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"90\">\n<p><em>STEVE DOOCY, FOX NEWS HOST: Our next guest says the Republican Party is the party of the working class, opportunity, and freedom. And that\u2019s why the mayor is leaving the Democratic Party for the Republican Party. And North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee joins us right now. Mayor, good morning to you.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JOHN LEE, NORTH LAS VEGAS MAYOR: Good morning, Steve, nice to see you. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>DOOCY: It\u2019s nice to see you as well. You say the Democratic Party is now being run by admitted socialists and that\u2019s why you had to get out. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>LEE: I\u2019d say card carrying socialists and in the Democratic Party in Nevada, they had an election recently for leadership, and four of the five people were card carrying members of the Socialist Party. It\u2019s not the party that I grew up with 25 years ago in this environment, and it\u2019s not the party I can stand with anymore. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>DOOCY: And the Democratic Party you grew up with was the party of the working class. But you don\u2019t see that anymore. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>LEE: No, the working class, the working men and women of this country, and also the small business owners are not a part of the conversation anymore, it all has to do with the elitist and it has to do with the socialists. That is not the agenda that I have in mind for this country and the future. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>DOOCY: Yeah. Mayor, what do people out there in the Las Vegas area, think about how Joe Biden is remaking the federal government into a gigantic, much bigger jobs program? <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>LEE: Well, you know, we\u2019ve had issues out in the West here with COVID. And, you know, the tourism, hospitality and gaming industry, but we are not for expanding the government to even bigger and more intrusive into our lives. That\u2019s not what we want out west and we\u2019re not going to accept it anymore. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>DOOCY: What about higher taxes? You know, they\u2019ve talked about raising taxes on people who make over $400,000 a year for a couple or corporate taxes. There are a lot of big corporations out there in Vegas. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>LEE: There are and those taxes are very important. A lot of taxes are taking out of people\u2019s pockets are taxes that we kind of need to run our local governments and stuff. They\u2019re not giving any opportunity about families saving for their future, for their children\u2019s education, it\u2019s all about them and their socialistic values and that doesn\u2019t work.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>DOOCY: Real quickly, are your friends surprised you\u2019re switching parties? <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>LEE: I would agree that they probably are but you know, when you\u2019re a pro life Democrat, a pro gun Democrat, and you\u2019re a very conservative person. That\u2019s not really well known in the Democratic Party anymore. And so for me to hang on, as long as I did, hoping the party would change. It didn\u2019t, it got worse. So therefore, I found a new place that I can put my allegiance to and help once again, forget about the last eight years. It\u2019s the next four years that predict the future.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>DOOCY: He\u2019s a brand new Republican. John Lee North Las Vegas mayor, sir, thank you very much. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>LEE: Thank you very much.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee announced on Tuesday morning that he has left the Democratic Party after a \u201csocialist\u201d takeover of the party in the state of Nevada and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311747,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-584.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Nevada Mayor Leaves Democrat Party: They Have \u2018Extremist Agenda\u2019, GOP Is Working Class Party Of Opportunity, Hope, Freedom","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-584.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Nevada Mayor Leaves Democrat Party: They Have \u2018Extremist Agenda\u2019, GOP Is Working Class Party Of Opportunity, Hope, Freedom","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}