Ron DeSantis also set to announce his bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination Wednesday night in a conversation with Twitter owner Elon Musk. Tim Scott declared his candidacy, with Florida Gov. In the days since the poll was conducted, South Carolina Sen. The Republican field remains far from settled. “She should still vote the way she has always said she would vote when these issues arise, regardless of party affiliation,” Cooper said.Donald Trump has consolidated the support of slightly above half of his party at this early stage of the race for the Republican nomination, a newly released CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds, highlighting the former president’s potential path to a third nomination – and the challenges his rivals will face over the next months in establishing their own bases of support. While it quoted the governor as saying her decision was “disappointing,” he expressed hope in Cotham’s future voting. “Will she protect trans kids?”Ĭooper’s office didn’t provide a statement Wednesday, referring instead to one released Tuesday. “Hurt voters deserve to know right now where she stands on abortion access in this state,” said Cameron Pruette with the LGBTQ Democrats of Mecklenburg County. “And I made that very clear in our conversations that there are just some things I’m not changing on.” That result may require Moore to count on remaining moderate Democrats to complete overrides.ĭemocratic activists said Cotham still owes it to the public to speak out clearly on critical issues. “I’m not going to be pigeonholed into any one particular issue,” she said Wednesday, not addressing a specific topic.
In 2015, Cotham spoke out in House floor debate against a bill that extended the waiting period before someone can receive an abortion in North Carolina from 24 hours to 72 hours, saying it was about “perpetuating shame and about politicians wanting to play doctor.” She has also been a supporter of LGBTQ rights. Another would ban them once an ultrasound first detects fetal cardiac activity, typically about six weeks after fertilization. One would prohibit abortions after the first trimester - 12 or 13 weeks of pregnancy - with new exceptions for rape and incest. North Carolina bans nearly all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, and Republicans have been meeting privately to discuss two options. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Republicans also are interested in further abortion restrictions following last year’s U.S. But House Republicans have this year revived previously vetoed measures that would force sheriffs to cooperate with federal immigration agents and block the counting of mailed absentee ballots received after Election Day. The speaker declined to get into specifics about what legislation he thinks can now succeed with Cotham’s switch. Moore already appointed Cotham this year to co-chair the House K-12 education committee, making her one of the few Democrats to hold top committee posts. Jason Saine, a Lincoln County Republican. “I told her we’d always have your back because we’re friends first,” said Rep. Top Republicans welcomed Cotham to the fold after working with her for several years. House Minority Leader Robert Reives said later Wednesday that Cotham’s allegations of mistreatment within the Democratic Party “just didn’t happen.” “It’s been very clear to me this was about control on Day One at the legislature,” she said. They will try to cast you aside.”Ĭotham said the turning point for her to consider a switch came when people started criticizing her for using the American flag and praying-hands emojis on social media and on her vehicles. “If you don’t do exactly what the Democrats want you to do, they will try to bully you. The “modern-day Democratic Party has become unrecognizable to me,” Cotham said. Her ex-husband is a former chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party. Her mother, Pat, serves on the Mecklenburg County commission and has been a Democratic National Committee member. It makes it a little bit easier, by the way.”Ĭotham, a former teacher and assistant principal who served in the House for nearly 10 years through 2016 before returning in January, switched because, she said, the Democratic Party and her Democratic colleagues were no longer willing to accept different viewpoints.Ĭotham, 44, has significant Democratic roots. Now, Moore said Wednesday, “we have an outright supermajority.
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