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Dems Win Deep Red Texas State Senate Seat
Democrat Taylor Rehmet won a special election for the Texas state Senate on Saturday, flipping a reliably Republican district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024.
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Breaking: Democrat Taylor Rehmet wins solidly red Texas Senate seat in stunning special election upset.[image or embed]" Texas Tribune (@texastribune.org) Feb 1, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Breaking: Democrat Taylor Rehmet wins solidly red Texas Senate seat in stunning special election upset.[image or embed]
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31 point shift.
That's a bit more than Republicans might like to see since they just made a number of districts a little less safe in Texas.
#1 | Posted by Sycophant at 2026-02-01 05:19 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2
Rehmet had a comfortable lead of more than 14 percentage points.
Posted by reinheitsgebot
This is Texas, folks.
Abbott and Trump will have to steal the midterms. They won't win honestly.
#2 | Posted by Zed at 2026-02-01 06:04 AM | Reply
riiight,...and in a special house election in Houston dems were celebrating a "resounding" "anti-trump" victory
for democrats in district 18....does that district sound familiar ?....it should.
it's the district of Barbara Jordon / Mickey Leland / SHiela jackson-Lee and Sylvester Turner....
NOT exactly a bastion of MAGA.
#3 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-02-01 09:43 AM | Reply
bbott and Trump will have to steal the midterms. They won't win honestly.
#2 | Posted by Zed a
the only dishonest charges in Texas elections.......maybe since LBJ bought and paid for his
Senate seat ...has been several hundred ballots.... illegal ballots....for democrats.
--but you keep your little sunday morning fairy tale for the leftist children going
#4 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-02-01 09:46 AM | Reply
Try to throw the Latinos out, lose the Latino vote. GOP is gonna lose for a generation in Tejas.
#5 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2026-02-01 10:03 AM | Reply
NOT exactly a bastion of MAGA
That Trump won by 17 points and hasn't elected a Democrat in 36 years. Not exactly a bastion of the DNC.
#6 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2026-02-01 10:05 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
Rut Roh Rorge!
Maybe Texas needs to bus some more immigrants to New York to gin up the hate base again?
#7 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-02-01 10:09 AM | Reply
Barbie lost, anti-Trump won?
And in my hometown Ft. Worth, too!
Hopefully a sign of the times.
#8 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-01 10:40 AM | Reply
#4 | Posted by shrimptacodan
Only You People, who are sick, love Donald Trump.
Trump will subvert the November elections because the stakes are existential for him, and because he is already trying to subvert them.
The only question is: is Donald willing to poke the American bear by using naked force?
His experiment towards that has not worked out well in Minnesota.
A nationwide effort will lead to counter-violence with the risk of his being deposed and/or killed.
A plurality of Americans would not mind seeing the man dead.
#9 | Posted by Zed at 2026-02-01 10:44 AM | Reply
#3 | POSTED BY SHRIMPTACODAN
What are you going on about. This race was in senate district 9. So confidently wrong you are.
#10 | Posted by memyselfini at 2026-02-01 11:07 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
POSTED BY ZED
In the movie Civil War, when I first watched it, I thought it was a bit much (spoiler alert!). At the end of the movie when the Western Forces surrounded and cornered the President in the White House and shot him. Now I can understand how a People CAN be pushed to a point when that could actually happen here. (AKA Muammar Gaddafi)
#11 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-02-01 11:07 AM | Reply
That guy's beard looks like it's hiding a goiter.
#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-01 12:37 PM | Reply
He kicked her (R)ed ass! I sure hope the Dems can keep this up. It's been a bloodbath for the GOP lately.
#13 | Posted by YAV at 2026-02-01 12:51 PM | Reply
Trump is going to come down hard on the whole state of Texas for this embarrassment.
How dare they reject him! Blah, blah, blah.
Time to bring in the Gestapo and scare those traitors straight.
The wrath of Donald Trump. Wait for it.
#14 | Posted by Twinpac at 2026-02-01 01:08 PM | Reply
You can win this Election for Leigh, who has my Complete and Total Endorsement. PLEASE MAKE A PLAN TO GET OUT AND VOTE FOR LEIGH WAMBSGANSS IN THE JANUARY 31ST SPECIAL RUNOFF ELECTION! Find your closest Polling Location here. Leigh will NEVER let Texas, or the USA, down! President DJT."
To quote -------------: BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
#15 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-02-01 01:37 PM | Reply
"You can win this Election for Leigh, who has my Complete and Total Endorsement"
LOL ~ The kiss of death.
#16 | Posted by Twinpac at 2026-02-01 02:06 PM | Reply
#17 | Posted by Twinpac at 2026-02-01 02:06 PM | Reply
This result may be a very big deal. The shape of things to come?
#18 | Posted by moder8 at 2026-02-01 04:49 PM | Reply
Apparently, at least this district, has told the GOPers to take their gerrymandering and shove it up their a**.
#19 | Posted by Twinpac at 2026-02-01 05:11 PM | Reply
Fingers crossed James Talarico does the same in November.
#20 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-01 05:12 PM | Reply
3 | POSTED BY SHRIMPTACODAN
#10 | Posted by memyselfini
I said,,,,riiiight...indicating skepticism....then I used the conjunction "AND"
"used as a function word to indicate connection or addition especially of items within the same class or type
"used as a function word to express logical modification, consequence, antithesis, or supplementary explanation
sorry your public school failed education....failed you
#21 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-02-01 06:19 PM | Reply
#9 | Posted by Zed
only your fellow brain dead fruit loops here buy your end of the world scanario...
with a few others cluttering up the internet.
but you do support the thesis of the dem mainstream legacy media
" they're there to convince 80 % of the people that the views and BS lies of 20% or less
are true.
#22 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-02-01 06:23 PM | Reply
I like this ad - brings back all kinds of memories of Ft. Worth. x.com
#23 | Posted by YAV at 2026-02-01 06:32 PM | Reply
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