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Inside the Party Switch that Blew Up North Carolina Politics
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jul 30, 2023 08:01pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Kate Kelly and David Perlmutt |
| News Date | Sunday, July 30, 2023 10:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | When Tricia Cotham, a former Democratic lawmaker, was considering another run for the North Carolina House of Representatives, she turned to a powerful party leader for advice. Then, when she jumped into the Democratic primary, she was encouraged by still other formidable allies.
She won the primary in a redrawn district near Charlotte, and then triumphed in the November general election by 18 percentage points, a victory that helped Democrats lock in enough seats to prevent, by a single vote, a Republican supermajority in the state House.
Except what was unusual — and not publicly known at the time — was that the influential people who had privately encouraged Ms. Cotham to run were Republicans, not Democrats. One was Tim Moore, the redoubtable Republican speaker of the state House. Another was John Bell, the Republican majority leader.
“I encouraged her to run because she was a really good member when she served before,” Mr. Bell recalled in an interview. |
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