Democrat Catelin Drey on Tuesday defeated Republican Christopher Prosch in a special election for the Iowa state Senate, flipping a GOP seat.
The Democrat victory breaks the GOP’s supermajority in the state’s upper chamber.
Drey defeated Prosch in a vote of 55% to 44%.
BREAKING: Republicans just LOST their supermajority in the Iowa State Senate. The Democrat has flipped Senate District 1 from red to blue in a special election.
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Drey secured 55% of the vote in the race to replace late Republican state Sen. Rocky De Witt, who died in June at the age of 66 after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
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