{"id":44397,"date":"2026-02-01T22:51:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/democrats-win-texas-senate-election-in-republican-district\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T22:51:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:51:17","slug":"democrats-win-texas-senate-election-in-republican-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/democrats-win-texas-senate-election-in-republican-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats win Texas Senate election in 'Republican district'"},"content":{"rendered":"

Democratic candidate Taylor Rehmet won the Texas State Senate election, defeating a Trump-backed candidate. This victory occurred in a district traditionally controlled by Republicans.<\/p>\n

\"Democrats<\/p>\n

Democrats won a landslide victory in a special election for the Texas State Senate in a district traditionally controlled by Republicans. This was reported by CNN, informs UNN.<\/p>\n

Details<\/h2>\n

It is noted that Democratic Party representative, union leader and Air Force veteran Taylor Rehmet won the election, outperforming Donald Trump-backed Lee Wambsgans by more than 14 percentage points in a runoff in the 9th district in the Fort Worth area.<\/p>\n

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This victory belongs to ordinary working people<\/p>\n

– said Rehmet during a speech to supporters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Context<\/h2>\n

Democrats re-elected more than 20 seats in state legislatures last year during special or scheduled elections. Thus, in December, they won a district in Georgia where Trump had a 12-point lead.<\/p>\n

The Texas district had been vacant since last summer, when Republican Kelly Hancock resigned to become acting state comptroller.<\/p>\n

Recall<\/h2>\n

Donald Trump's average approval rating in January 2026 is 40%, and according to Gallup and Reuters\/Ipsos – 36%. Most Americans are dissatisfied with his economic and immigration policies.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump's working-class approval rating plummets to historic low \u2013 Media26.12.25, 21:51 \u2022 5099 views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Democratic candidate Taylor Rehmet won the Texas State Senate election, defeating a Trump-backed candidate. This victory occurred in a district traditionally controlled by Republicans. Democrats won a landslide victory in a special election for the Texas State Senate in a district traditionally controlled by Republicans. This was reported by CNN, informs UNN. Details It is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-44397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}