Texas state Sen.-elect Taylor Rehmet, a Democrat, speaks in Fort Worth after winning a special election, on Jan. 31, 2026. KXAS screenshot via AP
Democrat Taylor Rehmet won a Texas state Senate race in a district that then-former President Donald Trump carried by 17 points in 2024, flipping a longtime Republican seat in a low-turnout special election that both parties say carries lessons for the fall.
The win came on the same night that Democrat Christian Menefee prevailed in a special election for a Texas U.S. House seat, narrowing the GOP’s already slim majority in Congress’s lower chamber.
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