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Mar 12, 2026

Wake-Up Call: ANOTHER Democrat Leaves Party Following Attack Against Trump

Nationally, the Democrat Party continues to hemorrhage support. The party’s congressional approval rating is, well, let’s just say used car salespeople and moderate cases of the flu are more popular. And things only appear to be getting worse, if you can believe that. Republicans in Congress have their issues with voters, too, but they are nowhere near the bad shape Democrats are in.

That’s especially true in North Carolina, where Democrats have doubled down on crazy and tripled down on punishing any party member who doesn’t toe every single line. In short, it’s costing them political capital and members.

North Carolina House Representative Carla Cunningham (D-Mecklenburg), who represents House District 106, changed her party registration from Democrat to unaffiliated last Friday. This decision followed months of feeling abandoned by Democratic Party leaders in the state, including Governor Josh Stein, and culminated in a bitter primary battle that she lost in early March.

The seven-term representative was targeted for what some deemed an offense for voting her conscience last July on a veto override of a bill aimed at improving cooperation and coordination between state sheriffs and federal immigration enforcement agencies. At that time, Republicans were just one vote short of a veto-proof supermajority, and Cunningham’s vote made the House override official.

Two other House Democrats who occasionally broke from party lines were also targeted and defeated in the March primary. One of these was District 99 Representative Nasif Majeed (D-Mecklenburg), who participated in another veto override in July, this time for a bill known as HB 105:

 

 

In explaining his vote with Republicans to override the veto, Majeed said afterward: “I had some moral issues about that, and I had to lean on my values.” Majeed was also one of 18 NC House Democrats who voted in favor of Iryna’s Law.

Comparable to Cunningham, Majeed didn’t always align perfectly with his party, but he generally did. However, his support for HB 805 drew criticism, and he was opposed by the so-called party of tolerance. As a result, he lost to newcomer and lefty Veleria Levy in the March primary.

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