{"id":476376,"date":"2026-10-25T15:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T15:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/476376\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T15:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T15:34:12","slug":"ohare-confident-tarrant-can-stay-red-if-gop-base-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/476376\/","title":{"rendered":"O\u2019Hare confident Tarrant can stay red if GOP base votes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Judge<\/p>\n

Judge Tim O’Hare, left, speaks to Chairman John Goff during the groundbreaking of the Research and Innovation Building-A event in Fort Worth on Aug. 5, 2026.<\/p>\n

Elvis Martinez-Cartagena<\/p>\n

FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM<\/p>\n

Despite a strong showing from Democrats on the first few days of early voting, Republican County Judge Tim O\u2019Hare is confident his party will win out on Nov. 3.<\/p>\n

In the first three days of 2026 midterm early voting, Tarrant County voters exceeded the numbers from the last midterm in 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At a Metroplex Republican Women club meeting Thursday, O\u2019Hare said the Republican Party expected Democrats to outpace the GOP voters in the first few days. The Democrats turned out more than estimated, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I think you\u2019re going to see is you\u2019re going to see us catching up over the next several days, and I think you\u2019re going to see us pass, if we all do our part,\u201d O\u2019Hare said at a Republican club meeting. \u201cAnd here\u2019s the great news: I have never, and I haven\u2019t been here as long as some of y\u2019all, but I have never seen Republicans so engaged, so energetic, working together so well.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Hare is running in one of the most prominent races in Tarrant County<\/a> this election against Democrat challenger and commissioner Alisa Simmons. The two have dueled on commissioners court a multitude of times since they were elected to their seats in 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has never been a sharper contrast between candidates for county judge ever in the history of this county, bar none,\u201d O\u2019Hare said Thursday.<\/p>\n

He added that \u201cthe stakes have never been higher,\u201d but many Republicans in the county aren\u2019t aware of that. O\u2019Hare raised alarm bells at a True Texas Project meeting in September, telling attendees his seat could flip blue.<\/a><\/p>\n

The county party has been employing several outreach methods to contact low-propensity voters and remind them to go to the polls.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Hare said there are more Republicans in the county than there are Democrats, so the issue is one of turnout.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we don\u2019t do our part, and we see Democrats take Tarrant County, you never get it back,\u201d O\u2019Hare said. \u201cDallas County never got it back. Harris County never got it back. Are we going to let that happen in Tarrant County? No way.\u201d<\/p>\n

This story was originally published October 22, 2026 at 6:43 PM.<\/p>\n


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Rachel Royster<\/a><\/p>\n

Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n

Rachel Royster is a news and government reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, specifically focused on Tarrant County. She joined the newsroom after interning at the Austin American-Statesman, the Waco Tribune-Herald and Capital Community News in DC. A Houston native and Baylor grad, Rachel enjoys traveling, reading and being outside. She welcomes any and all news tips to her email.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Judge Tim O’Hare, left, speaks to Chairman John Goff during the groundbreaking of the Research and Innovation Building-A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-476376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476376","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=476376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}