{"id":146227,"date":"2026-02-01T06:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T06:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/146227\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T06:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T06:49:08","slug":"taylor-rehmet-wins-texas-senate-seat-defeats-gop-in-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/146227\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Rehmet wins Texas Senate seat, defeats GOP in Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"content\">Democrat Taylor Rehmet has won a special election for the Texas state Senate, flipping a district that President Donald Trump carried by 17 points in 2024, according to ABC News.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1000150121_1769927322286_1769927332065.jpg\" alt=\"With nearly all votes counted, Rehmet held a lead of more than 14 percentage points. (X\/ @TaylorRehmetTX)\" title=\"With nearly all votes counted, Rehmet held a lead of more than 14 percentage points. (X\/ @TaylorRehmetTX)\" width=\"360\" height=\"202\" loading=\"eager\"\/>With nearly all votes counted, Rehmet held a lead of more than 14 percentage points. (X\/ @TaylorRehmetTX)<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">Rehmet, a labor union leader and military veteran, defeated Republican Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist, in the Fort Worth-area district. With nearly all votes counted, Rehmet held a lead of more than 14 percentage points, marking a decisive victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">The seat became available after four-term Republican Kelly Hancock resigned to take a statewide office. Hancock had won comfortably in previous elections, and a Republican had held the district for decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democrat Taylor Rehmet has won a special election for the Texas state Senate, flipping a district that President&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[61121,116,118,117,61122,61120],"class_list":{"0":"post-146227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-democrat-taylor-rehmet","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","11":"tag-fort-worth-news","12":"tag-fort-worth-area-district","13":"tag-texas-state-senate"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146227","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=146227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}