North Carolina Democratic Rep. Tricia Cotham secretly switches to Republican party: reportBy Katherine Donlevy
April 5, 2023
A North Carolina Democrat reportedly jumped her party’s ship Tuesday, cementing the Republican supermajority in the state House of Representatives.
Rep. Tricia Cotham of Charlotte quietly joined the state’s GOP with no fanfare — only a favorite on a tweet welcoming her to the party’s ranks, WRAL News reported.
The Charlotte representative — who won the seat by nearly 20 percentage points last year after a crowded Democratic primary — is expected to make the formal announcement during a 9 a.m. press conference Wednesday alongside her new party mates, sources told Axios, which first broke the news.
A Republican House member told the outlet that the party had been hoping Cotham would switch parties at one point in the session, but the prospect became realistic last week.
Cotham’s reason for flipping is unclear, but the representative has recently come under fire from her Democratic colleagues for skipping a vote last week to override North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of Republican-sponsored legislation relaxing some gun laws.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/04/05/north-carolina-democratic-rep-tricia-cotham-secretly-switches-to-republican/
