Republican legislatures in two key swing states managed to secure Republican supermajorities in at least one of their chambers following elections on Tuesday.
But in North Carolina, it wasn’t an election that shifted the balance, it was a personal decision made by a state Democratic lawmaker.
According to WCNC News , Representative Tricia Cotham, a Democrat who represents the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, is facing pressure from her fellow Democratic colleagues to step down due to her plans to announce her intention to join the Republican Party. House Democratic Leader Robert Reives and State Party Chair Anderson Clayton have described her decision to switch parties as a “betrayal” of the voters who have “overwhelmingly supported Democratic candidates up and down the ballot.”
Cotham is set to make her official switch to the Republican Party at a news conference on April 5, where she will be joined by Republican House Speaker Tim […]
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