North Carolina Democrat switches parties giving Republicans vetoproof supermajority in state House CNN Politics

CNN — 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 election as a Democrat in her blue district last fall by nearly 20 points, said at a news conference with state Republican leaders that “the modern-day Democratic Party has become unrecognizable to me.” “I have decided to change my party affiliation, joining the Republican Party, and have been welcomed with open arms by my colleagues,” she said at the North Carolina GOP headquarters in Raleigh. Cotham’s switch gives Republicans 72 seats…