RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – Some North Carolina Democrats are pushing back against lawmakers who voted in favor of Republican bills to override vetoes from Governor Josh Stein.

Representatives Carla Cunningham, Naseef Majid, Shelly Willingham and Cecil Brockman are now under fire for those votes.

“I don’t think it’s representative of the future of the Democratic Party, quite frankly, in North Carolina,” Anderson Clayton, chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party, said.

Since the votes, calls are popping up for the lawmakers to be primaried, meaning they would have a challenger in the primary election and potentially be voted out. Across the hall from the House floor in the General Assembly, top Democratic senators say they are not surprised.

“The bills that they overrode made us less saf

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