• On Monday, West Virginia Delegate Elliott Pritt became the fourth lawmaker in recent weeks to switch from the Democrat Party to the Republican Party.
• According to Fox News, Pritt, who works as a teacher, is a freshman delegate who defeated the Republican incumbent in the 2022 election.
• “I simply cannot continue down the road that the Democratic Party is headed if I am to accurately represent my constituents and my people as well as my own conscience,” he said in a statement.

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