{"id":146049,"date":"2026-02-01T03:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T03:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/146049\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T03:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T03:12:12","slug":"live-results-texas-state-senate-runoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/146049\/","title":{"rendered":"Live results: Texas state Senate runoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:The Hill;\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"The Hill\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"185\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/c5d8db50-4bb5-11ec-8fff-60edbf7d6abb.png\"\/><\/a>Sun, February 1, 2026 at 12:00 AM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"505\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bc42e0d8ad2098b6967bf7e03f1f7fd6.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Democrats are hoping for an upset in a special runoff election for a state Senate seat in Texas on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Taylor Rehmet, a local union leader, is facing off against Republican Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist in the Fort Worth-area district.<\/p>\n<p>Though the district is reliably red, Rehmet did better than expected in the November election that led to the runoff, fueling some GOP concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Decision Desk HQ\u2019s live results here.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to The Hill.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to The Hill. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sun, February 1, 2026 at 12:00 AM UTC Democrats are hoping for an upset in a special runoff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[968,11571,7837,11572,27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-146049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-conservative-activist","9":"tag-leigh-wambsganss","10":"tag-runoff-election","11":"tag-taylor-rehmet","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-texas-headlines","14":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}