{"id":1910142,"date":"2023-04-05T10:12:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T14:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-carolina-democrat-expected-to-switch-parties-giving-republicans-supermajority-in-state-legislature\/"},"modified":"2023-04-05T10:13:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T14:13:26","slug":"north-carolina-democrat-expected-to-switch-parties-giving-republicans-supermajority-in-state-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-carolina-democrat-expected-to-switch-parties-giving-republicans-supermajority-in-state-legislature\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina Democrat expected to switch parties, giving Republicans supermajority in state legislature"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnorth-carolina-democrat-expected-to-switch-parties-giving-republicans-supermajority-in-state-legislature%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1910142&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><br \/>\n<html><br \/>\n  <body> <\/p>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<p>Tricia Cotham, the Democratic State Representative of North Carolina, is expected to switch to the Republican Party according to sources. This move is expected to provide Republicans with a supermajority in the state House.<\/p>\n<p>The <i>News and Observer<\/i> reported that Cotham will announce her party switch in a press conference on Wednesday morning. Republicans require only one more vote to possess a veto-proof supermajority, and this step is considered to be a major boost to Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>It has been speculated for some time that Cotham could switch parties, and she has earned a reputation for reaching across the aisle. The speculation came to a head last week.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans are now expected to be able to push through legislation on gun control, abortion, and education, which were previously blocked or vetoed by Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Party acknowledges the move, and House Minority Leader Robert Reives has called for Cotham&#8217;s resignation. He says Cotham\u2019s switch is not in line with the values that were presented to voters of House District 112, which is a 60% Democratic district.<\/p>\n<p>Cotham&#8217;s switch has caused Cooper to express his concern over the situation. \u201cThis is a disappointing decision. Rep. Cotham\u2019s votes on women\u2019s reproductive freedom, election laws, LGBTQ rights, and strong public schools will determine the direction of the state we love. It\u2019s hard to believe she would abandon these long-held principles,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Party Chairwoman Jane Whitley, who is from Cotham&#8217;s county, has asked for\u00a0her resignation calling the switch, \u201cdeceit of the highest order\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to Democratic State Representative Cecil Brockman, Cotham was pushed to switch parties due to the harsh treatment she received from her own party, and he doesn&#8217;t blame her for the move.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>  <\/body><br \/>\n<\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic North Carolina state Rep. Tricia Cotham is expected to switch her party affiliation to Republican, according to a report. The move would give Republicans a supermajority in the state House. Multiple sources familiar with the matter told the News and Observer that Cotham plans to announce her switch in a press conference Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1910143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[3963,4912,4183,4199,5213,11342,3756,10183,7862],"class_list":["post-1910142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-carolina","tag-democrat","tag-expected","tag-legislature","tag-north","tag-parties","tag-republicans","tag-supermajority","tag-switch"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1910142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1910143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}