Red wall cracks: Democrat victory signals potential GOP weakness in Trump’s base
Democrat Taylor Rehmet flipped a reliably Republican state Senate district in Texas in Saturday’s special election, continuing a string of surprise victories for Democrats across the U.S. in the year since Donald Trump returned to the White House.
The Republican president immediately distanced himself from the loss in a district he’d won by 17 points in 2024.
“I’m not involved in that. That’s a local Texas race,” Trump told reporters Sunday at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
Dems score big in typically red Texas district that Trump easily won in 2024
Democrat Taylor Rehmet flipped reliably Republican district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024
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In an upset that rattled Republicans in Texas and beyond, a Democrat decisively won a state legislative special election on Saturday in a district around Fort Worth that President Trump carried by more than 17 percentage points just over a year ago.
The Democrat, Taylor Rehmet, a local union leader and first-time candidate, defeated the Republican, Leigh Wambsganss, by double digits — 57 to 43 — in the historically conservative district.