Party switch has dramatic impact on Cooper veto. House Republicans now have 72 caucus members and enough votes to overturn Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s vetoes if they all stick together.

North Carolina Republicans gained a veto-proof supermajority in the state House after a Charlotte-area Democrat announced Wednesday she was switching parties. State Rep. Tricia Cotham, who won as ...

A North Carolina state representative who was elected as a Democrat announced her switch to the Republican Party, which gives the GOP a supermajority in the state legislature and allows them to ...

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 ...

More than 15,000 registered Republicans switched parties in North Carolina since the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, with 85% of them becoming politically unaffiliated. Eighteen percent of those ...

NC Democrat expected to switch parties Wednesday, giving Republicans ability to override vetoes. Cotham previously served 10 years in the General Assembly as a Democrat, stepping away for a few years ...

I put her switch in the broader context of a G.O.P. bag of tricks to gut democratic rule by any means necessary. I cannot question Cotham’s state of mind.