major Raleigh RINO coming to Washington for campaign event | Eastern NC Now

A leading Raleigh RINO will be in Beaufort County for a campaign event at the Washington Yacht and Country Club.  Steve Troxler was a longtime Democrat before switching to become a RINO.

In the 1998 campaign, Troxler was chairman of Farmers for John Edwards, supporting slick liberal Democrat Raleigh lawyer John Edwards for US Senate against conservative Republican incumbent Senator Lauch Faircloth, whose career had been in large scale agriculture before running for office.  Troxler was a major operator in supporting a slick and very liberal Raleigh lawyer against a solid conservative who had spent many years in farming.  Indeed, in that campaign, Troxler worked closely with John Edwards campaign manager, a guy named Josh Stein.  Yes, THAT Josh Stein.

https://dailyhaymaker.com/ncpol-steve-troxler-backed-john-edwards/

Later Troxler dumped the Democrat brand and became a RINO, becoming the NC Agriculture Commissioner.  His actions in that position received the ire of gun rights organizations, to the point that in his last campaign, the state's major gun rights PAC endorsed the Libertarian running against Troxler.  Troxler is also highly distrusted by supporters of immigration enforcement.

Notorious RINO political consultant Paul Shumaker, the man behind Thom Tillis and Richard Burr, and who tried to make Pat McCrory senator, was angling in 2024 to encourage Troxler into the governor's race as the establishment candidate..

https://dailyhaymaker.com/the-charge-of-the-troxler-brigade/

Troxler is coming to town to try to boost another Democrat-turned-RINO, Darren Armstrong.  Armstrong is a longtime Democrat who was a major contributor in multiple campaigns to liberal Democrat state senator Marc Basnight, who has more recently changed his brand to RINO and running for the legislature..