Longtime Democrat Lawmaker Switches to Republican Party — “I Didn’t Leave Them, They Left Me!”

There has certainly been a growing trend in seeing Democrats leaving behind their party to join the Republican party and now as Queen once said…another one bites the dust. Kentucky state Senator Robin Webb, a longtime Democrat, has officially switched parties — and not to the Green Party or some fringe group, but to the Republicans. That’s right, another blue dog just turned red, and it’s sending shockwaves through the Kentucky political machine.

Webb, who has represented Kentucky’s 18th District for years and first entered public office back in 1998, announced her departure from the Democratic Party with a clear message: she didn’t change — the party did. “As the Democratic Party continues its lurch to the left and its hyperfocus on policies that hurt workforce and economic development in my region, I no longer feel it represents my values,” Webb said. “It has become untenable and counterproductive to the best interests of my constituents for me to remain a Democrat.”

Longtime Kentucky state Democratic Sen. Robin Webb, has flipped to the GOP saying that the Democrat party had left her.

With the party's historic low approval rating, we may see even more of this. pic.twitter.com/XPfguTXryE

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Translation: she’s tired of pretending that woke policies and green pipe dreams do anything but crush the working-class families she was elected to serve.

A mother, rancher, and lawyer with deep roots in Kentucky’s coal country, Webb isn’t just jumping ship for political convenience — she’s leaving behind a party that, for decades, claimed to champion blue-collar America, only to stab it in the back with job-killing regulations and a condescending cultural agenda.

Republican Party of Kentucky Chairman Robert Benvenuti welcomed Webb with open arms, praising her as a thoughtful leader who always put her constituents first. “Like countless other Kentuckians, [Webb] has recognized that the policies and objectives of today’s Democratic Party are simply not what they once were,” he said.

The reaction from Democrats? Pure panic and bitterness. Kentucky Democratic Party Chair Colmon Elridge lashed out, accusing Webb of siding with a party that wants to “take food off the table of Kentucky families” and “wipe out rural hospitals.” If that sounds like a meltdown, it’s because it is.

This isn’t an isolated case. Webb joins a growing list of public officials across the country who are defecting from a Democratic Party that now seems more concerned with climate mandates, gender politics, and coastal elite approval than with jobs, family, and faith.

As Webb herself put it, “While it’s cliché, it’s true: I didn’t leave the party — the party left me.” And based on the direction Democrats are heading, she won’t be the last.