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Politics : View from the Center and Left Texas Annex
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From: S. maltophilia2/4/2026 4:07:20 AM
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Now, everyone across the country is shocked that we flipped this district, but I saw how hard Democrats worked to flip it. They knocked on 20,000 doors, made half a million calls, and a whole bunch of other stuff. It was an impressive ground game operation.

Taylor Rehmet, a progressive Democrat, union leader, veteran, and first-time candidate, defeated far-right MAGA Republican Leigh Wambsganss by a margin of 57.2% to 42.8% in the Texas Senate District 9 special election runoff.





That’s a 14-point win in a district Donald Trump carried by 17 points in 2024, and that former Republican Senator Kelly Hancock won by 20 points just two years earlier.
A progressive Democrat just won a Trump +17 district by double digits.

“Republicans must have crossed over.”
“This was just a weird special election fluke.”
“Democrats can’t replicate this.”

But when you actually look at the data, a very different picture emerges.......



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