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Trump ‘Stealth’ Voters Could Thwart California Democrats’ Supermajority

by Chriss W. Street The California Democratic Party believes it will pick up a legislative super-majority that would allow them to raise taxes despite Republican opposition, but it may find itself blindsided by Trump “stealth voters” who clandestinely support his policies. Democrats have had the majority in both the California Assembly and the Senate for the last 46 years, except for the Assembly in 1995-1996. That has given them the ability to create California’s laws and craft budgets. But because the California Constitution requires a two-thirds super-majority of both houses of the legislature to raise taxes — even though it only takes a… View Article