Wisconsin Republicans fail to win supermajorities

Wisconsin Democrats scored a major victory in Tuesday’s election when they staved off Republican hopes to win supermajorities that would have allowed them to legislate without fear of vetoes by a Democratic governor, according to a report from the Associated Press. After Tuesday’s election, state Democrats remain a minority in Wisconsin, but they managed to retain enough seats to prevent Republicans from the two-thirds majorities that could have overridden vetoes from Gov. Tony Evers. Republicans needed to flip five Assembly seats and one in the Senate. They earned a Senate seat when Romaine Quinn defeated Kelly Westlund but came up short when Democrats defended three of the six seats Republicans had targeted in the Assembly.