Trump presented Van Drew in an Oval Office meeting that likewise included Vice President Mike Pence and House Minority Leader, Kevin McCarthy of California.
"Jeff will join the Republican Party," Trump said. "It's an exceptionally energizing declaration."
Van Drew said he has consistently been a moderate, and shot anonymous Democrats for moving the gathering excessively far left.
"I accept this is only a superior fit for me," he said. "This is the kind of person I am."
Van Drew ran through a series of issues he said pushed the gathering ceaselessly from him, censuring the Green New Deal proposition and blaming a few Democrats for making light of America's exceptionalism.
He commended Trump's record on the economy and swore dependability to his news gathering.
"You have my undying help, consistently," Van Drew said. Trump reacted, saying: "I'm supporting him."
The declaration finished long periods of political vulnerability for Van Drew, after the disclosure last Saturday that he wanted to switch parties.
He joins an uncommon gathering of turncoats as of late. Previous Alabama agent Parker Griffith, a long-lasting Democrat, turned into a Republican in 2009, just to lose in a GOP essential one year from now.
That equivalent political race cycle, Pennsylvania Republican Senator Arlen Specter rushed to the Democrats before losing 2010 essential to Joe Sestak.
Pence included Thursday that "another open authority from New Jersey" will be following the South Jerseycongressman's lead. He didn't give any subtleties.
Van Drew's vocal restriction to arraignment rankled Democratic pioneers and activists and provoked designs for him to switch parties.
He cast a ballot against the two articles of denunciation late Wednesday, contradicting most by far of his Democratic partners, who kept up that Trump manhandled his capacity and blocked Congress.
During the day-long denunciation banter, Wednesday Van Drew sat with Republicans on the House floor, warmly greeting GOP officials and saluting their pioneers after their strident barriers of Trump.
On Dec. 11, Van Drew gained from an interior survey exactly how much his position on prosecution endangered his odds to win a Democratic essential.
He continued to cut off contact with key partners, and after two days was at the White House to talk about plans to turn into a Republican.
Van Drew may have trusted absconding to the GOP would facilitate his way to re-appointment in a preservationist inclining region. In any case, nearby Republicans have barely been inviting, addressing Van Drew's generally liberal democratic record and association with the state's Democratic machine as upsetting.
"He should demonstrate he is with us on something beyond the issue of arraignment," Jacci Vigilante, seat of the Gloucester County GOP, said as of late.
Every one of the three Republican competitors who were running for his seat will remain in the race, for the minute resolute by Trump's Oval Office support of Van Drew, NAN reports.
"Expedite it," said Bob Patterson, a Republican contender for Van Drew's seat, in an announcement.
"South Jersey residents merits a congressman who will battle for them and their moderate qualities – not a liberal pioneer who battles for himself."
Trump has shot several tweets praising Van Drew, however it is not yet clear how hard he will battle for the long-term Democrat in a Republican essential.
At any rate, eight individuals from Van Drew's House staff have surrendered, alongside each of the three individuals from his crusade staff, NAN reports.
Six of his previous assistants will be procured by New Jersey Democratic Representative Frank Pallone to deal with the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, which Pallone seats, as indicated by sources acquainted with the issue.
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