The first special elections of 2026 were encouraging for Democrats: Two Democratic candidates won lopsided victories in two special elections in Minnesota, restoring the state House to an even partisan split.
The second came soon after in Texas, where Republicans invested a considerable amount of resources to keep a state Senate seat in the suburbs of Fort Worth. They failed: Democrat Taylor Rehmet, a union leader and an Air Force veteran, won a double-digit victory in a district Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024. (The president personally tried to rally support for the GOP candidate, but then pretended he didn’t after she lost badly.)
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