California Democrats have been denied their supermajority in the state Senate, in a key vote that means Senate Democrats won’t hold the two-thirds majority needed to pass tax and fee increases.
Democrats temporarily lost their supermajority in February when a lawmaker accused of sexual misconduct resigned.
They likely would have gotten it back in a special election in August. But then they lost another seat on Tuesday, when voters in an Orange County district recalled Democratic Sen. Josh Newman from office over his vote to raise gas taxes last year.
Former Republican Assemblywoman Ling Ling Chang won the seat. – READ MORE
[give_form id=”79809″] [contentcards url=”http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/06/democrats-lose-california-state-senate-supermajority-after-recall-vote.html” target=”_blank”]