State Lawmakers Across The Country Are Ditching The Democrats For The GOP: REPORT – By Arjun Singh (Daily Caller) / Aug 9, 2023
- Democratic legislators in several states have been switching parties to become Republicans, which has led to significant political realignments in those states.
- In North Carolina and Louisiana, party switching has given Republicans two-thirds majorities in both houses of those states’ legislatures, while West Virginia’s House of Delegates is nearly 90% Republican.
- “The modern-day Democratic Party has become unrecognizable to me,” said Republican state Rep. Tricia Cotham of North Carolina, who switched from the Democratic Party, at a press conference in April.
In multiple states, Democratic legislators are switching their parties to become Republicans, citing the Democratic Party’s left-wing shift and the difficulty to accomplish policy goals, according to several reports.
Since 1994, 173 state legislators have changed their parties mid-term, of which 83 were Democrats who became Republicans, while just 23 shifted the other way, according to research by Politico. Since 2022, at least three legislators in West Virginia, North Carolina and Louisiana, who were elected as Democrats, have joined the Republican benches with significant political consequences.
In West Virginia, first-term state Del. Elliott Pritt became a Republican, joining the House of Delegates’ 88-seat Republican supermajority in a 100-member chamber, according to an announcement reported by West Virginia Public Broadcasting. Pritt attributed his decision to the Democratic Party’s powerlessness in the state legislature and frustration with repeated failures by the party to enact policy.
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