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Democrat Taylor Rehmet wins a reliably Republican Texas state Senate seat, stunning GOP
Rehmet won with 57% of the vote, overcoming a 17-point Trump margin and strong GOP spending, signaling Democratic momentum in Texas special elections.
- On Saturday, Democrat Taylor Rehmet won a Texas Senate special election, flipping a district held by Republicans since the 1980s.
- Because Republican Kelly Hancock resigned last summer, Democrats flipped more than 20 state legislative seats last year, contributing to momentum.
- With almost all votes counted, Taylor Rehmet led 57 to 42 despite being heavily outspent by Leigh Wambsganss, with national backing from the DNC and VoteVets, which spent $500,000 on ads.
- Because the Texas Legislature is not set to reconvene until 2027 and the GOP will retain a comfortable majority, immediate legislative impact will be limited.
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Rehmet flips Senate District 9 blue with special election victory
Democrat and union leader Taylor Rehmet has defeated conservative activist Leigh Wambsganss in the special election to fill the District 9 seat in the Texas Senate, which has been empty since last June when Republican Kelly Hancock resigned to take over as Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. Hancock had held the District 9 seat since 2012. Before that the seat had been in Republican hands since at least the late 1980s, making it one of the mos…
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Leaning Left21Leaning Right4Center18Last UpdatedBias Distribution49% Left
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- 49% of the sources lean Left
49% Left
L 49%
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