Article snippet: Democrats are celebrating another state legislative victory, with Patty Schachtner’s win Tuesday in a Wisconsin State Senate race becoming the 34th Democratic gain since President Trump was inaugurated last January. In the same time frame, Republicans have flipped just four state legislative districts from Democratic to Republican control. A medical examiner from St. Croix County, Wisconsin, Schachtner defeated Republican Adam Jarchow, a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, in a district that's been under Republican control for close to two decades. President Trump won District 10, which runs along the Minnesota-Wisconsin border, by 17 points in the 2016 midterm elections grow closer. Democrats have flipped state legislative districts in nine different states since Trump’s inauguration, some in deep red states, including Oklahoma and Georgia, but their biggest gains came last November in Virginia, where they flipped 15 seats and nearly took control of the state House of Delegates. Scott Walker, Wisconsin’s Republican governor, took notice of Tuesday night’s result, urging his party to view it as a “wake up call” that they are not communicating their policies effectively to voters. Another powerful Wisconsin Republican, House Speaker Paul Ryan, told reporters Wednesday that the party should learn from the loss. “Typically we've held this seat, and we lost this seat last night. So yeah I think we should pay attention to it,” Ryan said. The wa... Link to the full article to read more