Top House Republicans have been told that the Democratic New Jersey representative Jeff Van Drew will switch parties and become a Republican, a GOP official said on Saturday.

Van Drew has long opposed the impeachment effort. An administration official said he discussed switching parties in a meeting with Donald Trump on Friday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Van Drew met Trump at the White House.

Drew, a longtime state senator serving his first term in Congress, is one of his party’s more endangered lawmakers in next November’s elections. His southern New Jersey district narrowly favored Trump in 2016 and the seat he won in 2018 had been under Republican control for nearly two decades.

The House is set to approve two articles of impeachment against Trump next week. Democrats, who hold the majority, expect support from all but a few of their members. No Republicans are expected to join them.

The Republican-controlled Senate is then all but certain to acquit Trump after a trial in January.

Van Drew has argued that the process is likely just to further divide the country and it would be better to let voters decide Trump’s fate in next year’s election.

In the first article of impeachment, Trump is accused of abusing his presidential power by asking Ukraine to investigate his 2020 rival Joe Biden while holding military aid as leverage.

In the second article, he is accused of obstructing Congress by blocking the House’s efforts to investigate his actions.