Democrat Taylor Rehmet has won a special election for the Texas state Senate ...

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Democrat Taylor Rehmet defeated Republican Leigh Wambsganss in the Texas Senate District 9 special election.

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Trump won the Texas Senate District 9 seat by double digits three times.

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Taylor Rehmet is a labor union leader.

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Taylor Rehmet is a U.S. Air Force veteran.

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Rehmet won 57.2% of the vote with 95% of the vote in, according to the Associated Press.

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Wambsganss won 42.8% of the vote, according to the Associated Press.

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Texas Senate District 9 is entirely based in Tarrant County.

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Texas Senate District 9 includes parts of Fort Worth and Arlington.

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Texas Senate District 9 was last represented by former Republican State Sen. Kelly Hancock.

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Kelly Hancock resigned in June 2025 to work for the Texas Comptroller's Office.

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Texas Senate District 9 voted for Donald Trump by 17 points (about 58%-41%) in the 2024 presidential election.

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Under current boundaries, District 9 voted for Trump by 13 percentage points in 2020, according to Dave's Redistricting App.

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Under current boundaries, District 9 voted for Trump by 23 percentage points in 2016, according to Dave's Redistricting App.

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Republican Leigh Wambsganss was backed by President Trump, including a last-minute endorsement.

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Leigh Wambsganss is the chief communications officer of Patriot Mobile.

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Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett congratulated Rehmet and called him a "friend" in an early Sunday X post.

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Democratic Pennsylvania State Sen. James Malone won a 2025 special election in a seat Trump carried by double digits the previous year.

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Democratic Iowa State Sen. Mike Zimmer won a 2025 special election in a seat Trump carried by double digits the previous year.

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Democratic Iowa State Sen. Catelin Drey won a 2025 special election in a seat Trump carried by double digits the previous year.

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Democratic Georgia State Rep. Eric Gisler won a 2025 special election in a seat Trump carried by double digits the previous year.

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Democrat Taylor Rehmet flipped a reliably Republican Texas state Senate district in a special election.

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Donald Trump immediately distanced himself from the special-election loss.

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A day before the election, Trump used his social media platform to urge voters to support Republican candidate Leigh Wambsganss.

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Rehmet's margin was a more than 30-point difference from Trump's 2024 result in the district.

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The GOP controls every statewide office in Texas.

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In March, Democrats prevailed in a Pennsylvania legislative district of suburbanites and farmers that they hadn't held in a century.

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Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City.

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The New York City mayor's race saw the highest voter turnout in a mayor's race in 50 years.

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Trump's approval ratings with the public hold steady at around 40%.

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Since 2025, Democrats won governor races in Virginia and New Jersey and special elections in Kentucky and Iowa.

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Republican Matt Van Epps won a Tennessee special election for a U.S. House seat.

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Trump and Vice President JD Vance have pushed states to redraw their political maps to Republicans' advantage.

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Some Democratic states, most notably California, have pushed back with their own redistricting efforts.

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The Texas Senate seat was open because four-term GOP incumbent Kelly Hancock resigned to take a statewide office.

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Hancock won election each time he ran for the Texas Senate seat.

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Republicans have held the Texas Senate seat for decades.

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Trump won Tarrant County by 5 points in 2024.

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Joe Biden carried Tarrant County in 2020 by about 1,800 votes out of more than 834,000 cast.

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Rehmet had support from national organizations, including the DNC and VoteVets.

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Taylor Rehmet's campaign focused on education and affordability/cost issues.

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Rehmet's victory allows him to serve only until early January.

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The Texas Legislature is not set to reconvene until 2027.

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Republicans are increasing their warnings about the midterm elections.

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The Republican Party was grappling with backlash to a pair of immigration-related shootings in Minneapolis before the Texas race.

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Polls show Democrats leading on the generic ballot ahead of the November elections.

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The race filled the vacant Texas state Senate District 9 seat.

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The race shifted into a runoff after no candidate clinched a majority in November.

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Wambsganss had a significant fundraising edge in the race.

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Wambsganss lost decisively, letting the seat fall into Democratic hands for the first time in more than 40 years.

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Rehmet's win adds to a string of Democratic special-election victories and overperformances since Trump returned to the White House.

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Trump faces sunken approval ratings and growing frustration over his immigration crackdown.

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Trump's immigration crackdown led to two fatal shootings by federal officers in Minnesota this month.

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Democrats are favored over Republicans by more than 5 points on the generic congressional ballot, according to Decision Desk HQ's polling aggregate.

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Republicans were ahead on the generic ballot in the first month of Trump's term.

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Democrats need to net just three seats to flip the House.

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Jon Taylor is the University of Texas at San Antonio's department chair of political science.

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Sen. John Cornyn faces a challenge from his right from state Attorney General Ken Paxton in the Texas U.S. Senate race.

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett and state Rep. James Talarico are vying for the Democratic nomination in the Texas Senate race.

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A recent Emerson poll found Paxton tied with both Talarico and Crockett, while Cornyn defeated Talarico by 3 points and Crockett by 5 points.

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Texas voted for Trump by roughly 14 points in 2024.

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Democrats have struggled for decades to win a statewide race in Texas.

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In the 2018 midterms, Democrat Beto O’Rourke came within 3 points of ousting Sen. Ted Cruz.

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Pete Sessions's party lost Saturday's special election for a Texas state Senate seat.

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Pete Sessions represents parts of central and west Texas in the state's 17th Congressional District.

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Rehmet will be the first Democrat to fill the seat in 45 years.

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Taylor Rehmet garnered more than 13,000 more votes than Leigh Wambsganss.

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Democrats cheered Taylor Rehmet's victory.

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A special election for a Texas state Senate seat was held on Saturday.

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The result represents a 31-point swing towards the Democrats from the 2024 presidential election.

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Dan Patrick is the Republican Lieutenant Governor of Texas.

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Republicans had become increasingly concerned in recent weeks that they would lose the race.

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Trump posted two messages in the final days of the campaign encouraging supporters to vote for the Republican candidate.

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Leigh Wambsganss, the Republican candidate, is a conservative activist.

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Republicans spent a combined $2.5m between the campaign and affiliated political committees, according to campaign filings.

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Rehmet reported raising just over $380,000, mostly in smaller donations.

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Dissatisfaction with Trump and Republicans contributed to the party's defeats in off-year state and local elections last November.

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Ken Martin is the Democratic National Committee Chair.

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Turnout in the special election fell from 277,000 in the 2022 race to 94,000.

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The electorate in the special election was still majority Republican.

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A run-off special election in Texas on Saturday determined which Democrat would fill a vacated Houston-area US House seat.

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The Houston-area US House seat was vacated when Congressman Sylvester Turner died in March 2025.

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Christian Menefee won the run-off.

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With Menefee's victory, the Republican margin in the House of Representatives narrowed to 218-214 with three remaining vacancies.

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