TX-SD09: THe Republican just conceded.

[RandySF]

Link to tweet

?s=20

Election Enjoyer 🇺🇸
@ElxMapping
·
🚨 BREAKING: Leigh Wambsgands (R) has conceded the race. Taylor Rehmet (D) has won, flipping a Trump +17 district. A Democrat will represent Northwest Tarrant for the first time in 35 years.
Quote

InteractivePolls
@IAPolls2022
·
39m
Texas State Senate 9 Runoff (54% in)

🟦 Taylor Rehmet - 56.6%
🟥 Leigh Wambsganss - 43.4%

[electric_blue68]

1. Yay, Texas!

[Deuxcents]

2. 🟦 more of this, Texas!

[tanyev]

10. Here ya go:

Collin County had a special election today for two city council races. These are officially non-partisan races, but both candidates recommended by the Collin County Democratic Party won!

Frisco: Ann Anderson 55.97% of the vote
Plano: Shun Thomas 58.11 % of the vote

These have both been very red areas, so (IMO) this is big!

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

37. Exactly!!!

[legallyblondeNYC]

3. I thought Wambsganns was CEO of Waystar Royco???

Oh. Different guy.

[hibbing]

17. Thank you for the chicken n/t

[SouthBayDem]

31. Senior exec at Patriot Mobile

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Wambsganss

[msongs]

4. great news. continues the trend only more so being texas

[EnergizedLib]

5. There's no such thing as a small victory these days

People are freaking angry, and with good reason.

[riversedge]

6. Republican Leigh Wambsganss appears to concede the race to her D challenger--a Trump +17 district is taken by the De

‪Scott Horton‬
‪@robertscotthorton.bsky.social‬
· 15m
Republican Leigh Wambsganss appears to concede the race to her D challenger—a Trump +17 district is taken by the Democrats in metro Ft Worth.

Republican Leigh Wambsganss appears to concede the race to her D challenger—a Trump +17 district is taken by the Democrats in metro Ft Worth.

— Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) 2026-02-01T04:38:48.932Z

[Initech]

7. Hell yeah!!! Let's flip Texas blue!

[FHRRK]

8. Holy shit!

What is the story? A 30 point swing!

[democrank]

9. Good news

Little by little by little….

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. This makes me smile

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

12. Kick

[liberalla]

13. Love it! This is great!

[Evolve Dammit]

14. Woo hoo!!

[sheshe2]

15. Go Texas!

[Trueblue Texan]

16. Well yeeeeee-f*cking HAWWWWWW! Nt

[progressoid]

18. Endorsed by Trump.

Mwah. The kiss of death.

[Cha]

30. LOL... ".. he's been hyping her for

days.. "

Guessing the Malaria Flypaper Doc didn't help.

[Laffy Kat]

19. YES!

[SunSeeker]

20. Wow!

[NBachers]

21. Butthurt Maggots: "I'm movin' outta damn Texas"

[Skittles]

24. please, it is MAGAts

REAL maggots serve an actual critical purpose on this earth

[NBachers]

28. I'm kinda committed to Maggots. I think it gets more of a rise from those who don't appreciate the benefits of maggots.

Subtlety, however direct, is beyond the reach of many.

[Skittles]

22. hard to overstate how impressive this is

[Historic NY]

23. Thats called a drubbing!

[Figarosmom]

25. In a texas red district. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😊

[Grins]

26. A Republican +17 district flipped?????

A lot of GOP tequila hangovers tomorrow morning…

[0rganism]

34. And it wasn't even close: a 30 point swing?

Yeah, that's a trip-over-your-empties-as-you-get-up kind of hangover.

[Boo1]

27. There are a lot of Texas

R reps in newly shaped districts that are shitting their pants tonight.

[calimary]

29. Terrific news!

More, please!

BIG Congratulations to Democrat Taylor Rehmet! We’re proud of you!!!

[Cha]

32. The last Dem in that District was 25

years ago!

Guess Malaria's Flypaper Propaganda Doc didn't help in that District in TEXAS!!

TY Randy

[0rganism]

33. Hmm, I'm smelling a 30-pt switcheroo

takeaway: the GOP cannot afford to let the 2026 midterm elections proceed unmolested or they will lose both houses of congress decisively.

[durablend]

39. Surprised he hasn't be on the phone with you-know-who

"THEY CHEATED!!!!!!"

[UpInArms]

35. More of this, please

and … thank you!

[malaise]

36. K & R

for visibikity

[callous taoboy]

38. Kick!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

40. I have been active in Texas politics for a long time and I am still hoping that Texas will turn blue

I have been following some demographic trends for a while that would indicate that Texas should turn blue. Texas is getting older and more urban. Texas was more republican that these trends would indicate in 2024 in large part because Hispanics voted for trump and the GOP in larger numbers than what one would expect. I grew up in or near the Rio Grand Valley that went for trump. I was surprised by this result.

Last night was a great result in a state senate runoff race where a Democrat won a seat by 14 percentage points that trump won by 17 percentage points.

Link to tweet

If this swing was held up nationally, Texas would be blue as would the rest of the country

Link to tweet

This race was largely symbolic in that the next time the next time the Texas legis will be in session will be after the November elections and special elections are not necessarily representative of national/regular elections.

I am encouraged by the fact that Hispanic voters in SD 9 went for the Democrat.

Link to tweet

In Texas, there is a racist tradition called sundown towns where non-whites used to have to be out of the city limits by sundown or face lynching. Vidor Texas is one such city. The democrat in this race flipped a local sundown city in this race

Link to tweet

These results are encouraging to me. I still believe that Texas will turn blue. trump's alienation of Hispanic voters should continue given the current ICE operations.