Democrat Congressman Collin Peterson doesn’t plan to vote to impeach President Trump because he “has not committed a crime.”

The Minnesota lawmaker told The Globe he expects at least four or five other Democrats will also vote against the move “unless they come up with something between now and Wednesday.”

“Maybe something will change,” he said, “I doubt it.”

Peterson pointed out the case Democrats have built to remove Trump from office is based on “second-hand” information and said most of his constituents have no problem with president withholding foreign aid.

The “biggest problem,” he explained, is Democrats decided to impeach Trump, “and now they’ve spent a year trying to figure out how they can make a case for it.

“That’s backwards,” Peterson said. “I just don’t agree with it.”

He’s convinced the effort is a waste of time that will end in acquittal in the Republican controlled Senate.

“This is dividing the country for no good reason because he’s not going to be thrown out of office,” Peterson said. “Why are we doing this?”

“If people don’t like Trump, they can vote against him,” the lawmaker said.

The comments come as other Democrats are also speaking out against impeachment.

New Jersey Democrat Congressman Jeff Van Drew is even expected to leave his party to join the Republican Party after voting with his GOP colleagues against formalizing the impeachment inquiry in October, NPR reports.

Van Drew and Peterson were the only two Democrats who voted against the formal impeachment inquiry.

Peterson represents Minnesota’s 7^th congressional district, which voted for Trump in 2016 after going for Obama in 2008 and 2012. Trump also won Van Drew’s New Jersey district by a slim margin in 2016.

“Without bipartisan support, I believe this inquiry will further divide the country tearing it apart at the seams and will ultimately fail in the Senate,” Van Drew said in October.

He met with President Trump on Friday to plot his transition to the GOP, which the president welcomed.

“Always heard Jeff is very smart!” Trump tweeted. “Thank you for your honesty Jeff.

“All of the Democrats know you are right, but unlike you, they don’t have the ‘guts’ to say so!”

Democrats, meanwhile, are describing their colleague as a “rat” and a “traitor.”

“I think Jeff Van Drew is making a serious mistake,” Rep. Steve Cohen told CNN. “I understand he feels if he votes against impeachment, he’ll lose in a Democratic primary – he could – but he got elected with Democratic votes under a Democratic banner, which he ran under for thirty years or so.”

“And to turn and go to be a Republican is kinda strange, you know, I’ve heard rats jumping off a sinking ship, but very few jump onto a sinking ship,” he said. “The lowest thing that there is in Congress is somebody on the minority side who is a traitor to the majority. So this is not good for his district.”