{"id":447382,"date":"2026-02-01T15:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T15:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/447382\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T15:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T15:08:13","slug":"democrat-taylor-rehmet-flips-a-texas-state-senate-seat-trump-won-by-17-points-cnn-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/447382\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Taylor Rehmet flips a Texas state Senate seat Trump won by 17 points, CNN projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cml384i0u005u26p365c62nph@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Democrats notched another victory Saturday in special elections during President Donald Trump\u2019s second term, flipping a seat in the Texas Senate that Trump won by 17 points in 2024.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cml38638z00033b6pwwa83bys@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Taylor Rehmet, a union president and Air Force veteran, will defeat Trump-backed Leigh Wambsganss in a runoff for the Fort Worth-area 9th District, according to a CNN projection.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cml38638z00043b6p7s1yt9o0@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Rehmet won 48% in November\u2019s first round against Wambsganss, a GOP activist and executive at conservative wireless provider Patriot Mobile, and one other Republican. His victory Saturday marks the latest success for Democrats ahead of this year\u2019s midterms.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cml38638z00053b6pdsao25of@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump had made a late push for Wambsganss, <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115982747344520072\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">posting on social media<\/a> in support of her campaign three times in the last two days of the race.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cml38638z00063b6panb8zyv2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Democrats flipped more than 20 state legislative seats in special or regularly scheduled elections last year. Most recently, in December they won <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/12\/09\/politics\/georgia-democrat-eric-gisler\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a Georgia district<\/a> that Trump had carried by about 12 points.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cml38638z00073b6ptu9wbgiu@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The Texas seat has been vacant since last summer, when Republican Kelly Hancock resigned to become the state\u2019s acting comptroller.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democrats notched another victory Saturday in special elections during President Donald Trump\u2019s second term, flipping a seat in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-447382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}