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Democrat Taylor Rehmet wins a reliably Republican Texas state Senate seat, stunning GOP (apnews.com)

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Democrat Taylor Rehmet won a special election for the Texas state Senate on Saturday, flipping a reliably Republican district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024.

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[-] gustofwind@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

The way they didn’t expect voters to behave is by actually going out and voting for democrats

America is not an easy country to actually destroy at a legal level and institute true fascism

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

is by actually going out and voting for democrats

Yup. They miscalculated big-time, assuming they had a mandate for this when, in reality, people just hated that Democrats didn't do anything to address affordability.

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