Republicans lost a lot of elections in North Carolina this year. But there’s one that stands out.
Tricia Cotham—the Charlotte lawmaker who ran as a pro-choice Democrat and then flipped to the Republican Party and helped them pass an abortion ban, among many other polarizing GOP bills—was beaten by Democrat Ken McCool last week.
In a new Billy Ball Explains NC, we go deep on Cotham’s backstory, and explain why her defection to the GOP made her one of the most bitterly opposed North Carolina politicians of the 21st century.
Billy also talks about the first time he met Cotham in the legislature, when she was still calling herself a Democrat, and why it’s so revealing.
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