{"id":1916510,"date":"2023-04-19T02:27:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T06:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/another-one-fourth-democrat-state-legislator-switches-party-in-a-month\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T02:30:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T06:30:15","slug":"another-one-fourth-democrat-state-legislator-switches-party-in-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/another-one-fourth-democrat-state-legislator-switches-party-in-a-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Another One: Fourth Democrat State Legislator Switches Party in a Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fanother-one-fourth-democrat-state-legislator-switches-party-in-a-month%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=1916510&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--><div>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\tWest Virginia lawmaker Elliott Pritt (Via YouTube)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Democrats have lost another state legislator to the Republican Party, the fourth since mid-March.\u00a0<\/span>\t<\/p>\n<p><span>Elliott Pritt, a freshman representative from West Virginia, announced Monday he would join the Republicans, saying he could &#8220;no longer continue supporting or advocating for issues that the vast majority of my constituents do not support.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;There is very little room in the party for traditional values or differences regarding political opinion,&#8221; Pritt said in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/elliottpritt4house\/\"><span>letter<\/span><\/a><span> to the state\u2019s House Democratic Caucus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Pritt is the latest Democrat in a State House to switch his party affiliation in recent weeks. Last week, Louisiana representative Jeremey LaCombe <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/jumping-ship-dems-lose-third-state-legislator-to-republican-party-in-a-month\/\"><span>left<\/span><\/a><span> the Democratic Party, less than a month after <\/span><span>another Louisiana lawmaker, Francis Thompson, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wafb.com\/2023\/03\/17\/republicans-gain-supermajority-la-house-after-longtime-democrat-switched-parties\/\"><span>joined<\/span><\/a><span> Republicans after nearly 50 years as a Democrat, granting Republicans a supermajority in the legislature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Thompson said the Democratic Party\u2019s misalignment with the<\/span><span> &#8220;values and principles that are part of my Christian life&#8221; was the motive for his change.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>North Carolina Republicans also won a supermajority this month, when Rep. Tricia Cotham <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/north-carolina-dems-party-switch-gives-gop-veto-proof-majority\/\"><span>switched<\/span><\/a><span> her party affiliation. She said the Democrats had become &#8220;unrecognizable&#8221; and sought to &#8220;control&#8221; her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;The party wants to villainize anyone who has free thought, free judgment, has solutions, and wants to get to work to better our state,&#8221; Cotham, who had served more than 10 years as a Democrat, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/3935568-nc-lawmaker-swaps-parties-supermajority\/\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span>. &#8220;Not just sit in a meeting and have a workshop after a workshop, but really work with individuals to get things done.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>West Virginia\u2019s Republican Party chair said Pritt recognized what &#8220;so many West Virginians&#8221; have learned about Democrats.\u00a0<\/span>\t<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Like so many West Virginians, Delegate Pritt has recognized that the Democratic Party of today is not the Democratic Party that our parents grew up with,&#8221; Elaine McArdle, the state Republican Party chair, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2023\/04\/west-virginia-lawmaker-elliott-pritt-is-fourth-democrat-to-switch-to-republican-party-in-two-months\/\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The values, beliefs, and way of life that the people of Southern West Virginia and Fayette County hold dear are no longer compatible with the trajectory of the Democratic Party,&#8221; Pritt said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Virginia lawmaker Elliott Pritt (Via YouTube) Democrats have lost another state legislator to the Republican Party, the fourth since mid-March.\u00a0 Elliott Pritt, a freshman representative from West Virginia, announced Monday he would join the Republicans, saying he could &#8220;no longer continue supporting or advocating for issues that the vast majority of my constituents do<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1916511,"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":[544],"tags":[4912,7032,9731,7666,5537,4787,7540],"class_list":["post-1916510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-democrat","tag-fourth","tag-legislator","tag-month","tag-one","tag-party","tag-switches"],"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\/1916510","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\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1916511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}