How Taylor Rehmet upset a MAGA candidate to flip a North Texas Senate district

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In September 2024, Texas Rep. Ramón Romero was at a fundraiser in Fort Worth for Kamala Harris when he met a young labor leader named Taylor Rehmet.

The Air Force veteran and union machinist told Romero he was mulling a run for public office. A lot of people think about running, Romero recounted telling him, but he offered to help should Rehmet actually file.

The two stayed in touch, and Rehmet decided last summer to run in a special election for a ruby red Texas Senate district in Tarrant County that no Democrat had represented in nearly half a century and that President Donald Trump won by more than 17 points in 2024. When Romero mobilized to help Rehmet court Latino voters — many of them from the same Fort Worth neighborhoods he represents in the House — he saw a serious first-time candidate meeting power brokers, talking to voters on front porches and running a long-shot bid like he could win it.

On Saturday, Rehmet did win it, in part thanks to a spike in support from the Latino vote.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/taylor-rehmet-upset-maga-candidate-110000881.html

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1. A 30-pt. swing in a district that's voted GOP for 50 years.

KSAT writes

Rehmet’s upset victory, according to interviews Sunday with half a dozen people who supported or worked on his campaign, is explained by a variety of factors, including the combination of Latino and suburban backlash to once-fringe conservative policies that have taken root in Tarrant County and Washington; a MAGA opponent who drove some of those policies and embraced them on the campaign trail; and a message from Rehmet, centered on his union background, that won over working-class voters, independents and even some moderate Republicans.

I tend to think trump-fatigue is now hitting the suburbs; regardless of red or blue voters, the high-higher-highest prices in the grocery store hurt both equally...