Suburban swing voters who helped fuel the Democratic Party’s gains in recent years are becoming Republicans.
More than 1 million voters across 43 states have switched to the Republican Party over the last year, according to voter registration data analyzed by The Associated Press. The previously unreported number reflects a phenomenon that is playing out in virtually every region of the country — Democratic and Republican states along with cities and small towns — in the period since President Joe Biden replaced former President Donald Trump.
But nowhere is the shift more pronounced — and dangerous for Democrats — than in the suburbs, where well-educated swing voters who turned against Trump’s Republican Party in recent years appear to be swinging back. Over the last year, far more people are switching to the GOP across suburban counties from Denver to Atlanta and Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Republicans also gained ground in counties around medium-size cities such as Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Raleigh, North Carolina; Augusta, Georgia; and Des Moines, Iowa.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/m ... -democrats
Four
state lawmakers have now switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party in the last month. It’s part of a decades-long trend that’s helped the GOP consolidate power in certain states, handing them majorities, and even supermajorities.The West Virginia GOP announced Monday that Delegate
Elliott Pritt, who was elected as a Democrat, was joining its ranks. Last week,
Louisiana Rep. Jeremy LaCombe
became the second Democrat in the state house to defect, just weeks after Rep. Francis Thompson announced his decision to leave the party. Thompson’s decision
gave Republicans a supermajority in the state house; North Carolina state
Rep. Tricia Cotham also gave Republicans a supermajority in that state’s house when she announced her decision to switch parties earlier this month. Republicans in both Louisiana and North Carolina now have the power to override their Democratic governors’ vetos as a result.
https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/4/11/ ... on-lacombe
hey
@Bruce , aren't you glad you jumped on the titanic? take her to the bottom bruce...
“Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime”
LAVRENTIY BERIA