{"id":35714,"date":"2025-11-05T02:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/35714\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T02:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:45:07","slug":"texas-senate-district-9-election-update-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/35714\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Senate District 9 election update \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a three-person race to replace an outgoing state senator in Tarrant County. <\/p>\n<p>With early voting totals in, Democrat Taylor Rehmet, a veteran and union leader, is leading the way with 44% of the vote. Republicans Leigh Wambsganss and John Huffman are splitting the Republican vote, with Wambsganss taking 40% and Huffman taking 16%.<\/p>\n<p>State lawmakers designed the district to select a Republican Senator during the last redistricting cycle, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/politics\/lone-star-politics\/tarrant-co-senate-distric-9-race-turns-into-larger-war\/3939760\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">and big money was spent in this race<\/a> to try to elect Wambsganss, a conservative activist who works for Patriot Mobile, or Huffman, the former mayor of Southlake and a real estate developer. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0If no candidate gets the majority of the vote, the top two candidates go to a runoff election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is a three-person race to replace an outgoing state senator in Tarrant County. With early voting totals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10140,288,116,118,117,7116],"class_list":{"0":"post-35714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-decision-2025","9":"tag-elections","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","12":"tag-fort-worth-news","13":"tag-texas-elections"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35714","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=35714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}