As of today's data for the 7M NC registered voter pool:
2.48M are registered Democrats (35.2%)
2.35M are registered Unaffiliated (33.4%)
2.15M are registered Republican (30.6%)
54K are all other parties (0.8%)
"If negotiating a post-Donald-Trump world has been a disorienting experience for Republicans around the country, it is especially acute in NC, a state that has become a polarized, and nearly deadlocked, partisan battleground."
Granted, the GOP base is composed of both registered Republicans + registered unaffiliated voters who vote GOP.
But since November, the greatest # of defections from party registration has been among registered Republicans in NC's 7M voters (data courtesy of @NCSBE):
1: "The GOP members of Congress said the (phone) exchange showed Trump had no intention of calling off the rioters even as lawmakers were pleading with him to intervene. Several said it amounted to a dereliction of his presidential duty.
'He is not a blameless observer, ...
2: "...he was rooting for them," a Republican member of Congress said. 'On January 13, Kevin McCarthy said on the floor of the House that the President bears responsibility and he does.'" cnn.com/2021/02/12/pol…
"I think it speaks to the former President's mindset," said Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, an Ohio Republican who voted to impeach Trump last month. "He was not sorry to see his unyieldingly loyal vice president or the Congress under attack by the mob he inspired. In fact, ....