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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDemocrat Taylor Rehmet wins Texas State Senate 9 Runoff, flipping the seat from R to D
Projected by DDHQ - https://election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2026-01-31/593273
JUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate.
— Taniel (@taniel.bsky.social) 2026-02-01T05:05:10.086Z
Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards.
With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43.
Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.
RandySF
(82,282 posts)yellow dahlia
(5,233 posts)RandySF
(82,282 posts)the killer issue was the Republican's support of splitting the Keller School District.
dalton99a
(92,885 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(176,892 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(176,892 posts)calimary
(89,330 posts)Winning helps us heal our damaged country, one election at a time!
C Moon
(13,545 posts)BlueWaveNeverEnd
(13,472 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(176,892 posts)I have been following some demographic trends for a while that would indicate that Texas should turn blue. Texas is getting older and more urban. Texas was more republican that these trends would indicate in 2024 in large part because Hispanics voted for trump and the GOP in larger numbers than what one would expect. I grew up in or near the Rio Grand Valley that went for trump. I was surprised by this result.
Last night was a great result in a state senate runoff race where a Democrat won a seat by 14 percentage points that trump won by 17 percentage points.
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If this swing was held up nationally, Texas would be blue as would the rest of the country
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This race was largely symbolic in that the next time the next time the Texas legis will be in session will be after the November elections and special elections are not necessarily representative of national/regular elections.
I am encouraged by the fact that Hispanic voters in SD 9 went for the Democrat.
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In Texas, there is a racist tradition called sundown towns where non-whites used to have to be out of the city limits by sundown or face lynching. Vidor Texas is one such city. The democrat in this race flipped a local sundown city in this race
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These results are encouraging to me. I still believe that Texas will turn blue. trump's alienation of Hispanic voters should continue given the current ICE operations.
LetMyPeopleVote
(176,892 posts){ð®ð ðð¿}: GOPâs gerrymander bet is built on Trumpâs 2024 Latino surge â but support is already slipping. Texas seats once thought safe are shaky, and demographic shifts blunt map-rigging. Even with SCOTUS poised to gut the VRA, Dayen notes: maps canât save an unpopular Trump.
— ðð§ðð² ð.ð. ððððð©ð¢ðð ð¨ð¦ ðºð¦ ¬1ð = ððð ððð¾ ððððº (@ajsdecepida.bsky.social) 2025-08-30T18:10:10.123Z
Torchlight
(6,529 posts)Flipping a deep-red Texas Senate seat by 14 points is no small thing in Tarrant county. Huge win for voters, public schools, and the idea that organizing actually works.
LetMyPeopleVote
(176,892 posts)trump is trying to deny the fact that he campaigned for and endorsed the losing candidate
Trump busted for denying part in GOP's Texas rout: 'He was most definitely involved'
— #TuckFrump (@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social) 2026-02-02T17:25:25.000Z
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2675069239/?utm_source=front-sidebar-watch
Since November 2025, Democrats have gained significant wins in elections, putting Republicans on edge with midterm elections on the horizon this fall, wrote MS NOW's Steve Benen, producer of The Rachel Maddow Show," in an analysis post published Monday.
Trump has apparently attempted to distance himself from his own failures, Benen explained. Despite his public attempt to push voters to support the Republican candidate, he denied having any part in the loss......
And when Trump was asked about it the next day, he had this to say:
'I dont know. I didnt hear about it,' he replied. 'Somebody ran where?' Reminded of the relevant details, Trump added, 'Im not involved with that. Thats a local Texas race.'
But Benen argued that wasn't the actual reality and the staggering loss was a clear reflection on Trump's presidency.
"He was most definitely involved with that," he wrote.
Reporter: A Democrat won a special election in Texas in an area that you won by 17 points
— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2026-02-01T17:45:31.133Z
Trump: Iâm not involved in that. Thatâs a local race. I donât know anything about it. I had nothing to do with it.
