President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that New Jersey Democratic Rep. Jeff Van Drew is, as expected, switching parties.

“Jeff will be joining the Republican Party,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, with the freshman congressman by his side.

The president then endorsed Van Drew’s reelection bid in New Jersey’s 2nd District, which went for Trump by nearly 5 points in 2016.

Van Drew, whose election to a GOP-held district last fall helped Democrats flip the House, was one of two Democrats who voted against both articles of impeachment against the president Wednesday night. He spent the evening on the floor, milling about and chatting with GOP members on their side of the chamber.

“I believe that this is just a better fit for me,” Van Drew said in the Oval Office Thursday. “This is who I am.”