Democrat Taylor Rehmet wins a reliably Republican Texas state Senate seat, stunning GOP
Taylor Rehmet, a union leader and Air Force veteran, won 57% of the vote, flipping a district Trump carried by 17 points in 2024 due to energized Democratic and independent turnout.
- On February 1, Democrat Taylor Rehmet won the Texas Senate District 9 special election in Fort Worth, with the AP projecting her at 57.2% to 42.8% with 95% of votes counted.
- Kelly Hancock's resignation prompted the special election, and Rehmet led the November election with 48%, forcing a runoff after Republican vote-splitting.
- VoteVets, a progressive national veterans PAC, spent roughly $500,000 to support Rehmet, while Wambsganss reported $736,000 in expenditures, and Gov. Dan Patrick's PAC contributed $300,000.
- Rehmet will serve roughly 11 months remaining and must win November to keep the seat; he will face Leigh Wambsganss again in a November rematch.
- The win adds to Democrats' recent special-election overperformance as party leaders say it signals momentum heading into November midterm elections and may boost attention and spending on rematches this year.
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Texas Gives a Warning Signal to Trump: What Does It Mean to Win a Democracy in a Republican Village?
The victory by the Democrat Taylor Rehmet of a place in the state Senate of Texas was described as a electoral plot. The investment of a historically republican circle surprised Donald Trump's party and expressed discontent with the president's policies, which first asked for votes and then withdrew from the defeat.
The election of a democrat on Saturday in the Texas parliament could have gone unnoticed, but his unrelenting victory in a constituency widely won by Donald Trump in 2024 alarmed the Republicans a few months before the mid-term elections.
Neither Trump's support, nor Republicans' million dollar investments managed to stop backing veteran and union leader Taylor Rehmet
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Trump-Backed Republican Loses Deep-Red State Senate Seat
Source: Austin American-Statesman/Hearst Newspapers / Getty If voting shows how much people can’t stand the current administration, then people in the Forth-area of Texas are done with President Donald Trump. For the first time in more than two decades, the state Senate seat was flipped blue after Democrat Taylor Rehmet beat Republican Leigh Wambsganss, a Trump-backed candidate. According to the New York Post, Rehmet didn’t just beat Wambsganss…
Texas Republican voters "cannot take anything for granted" after Democrats' surprise upset in state Senate race
In a state Senate race in Fort Worth's Tarrant County, Democrat Taylor Rehmet defeated Republican Leigh Wambsganss by 14 points — a 30-point swing from President Trump's results in 2024.
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