Texas stunner: Democrat Taylor Rehmet flips Republican state Senate district Trump won by 17 points
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Democrat Taylor Rehmet has won a special election for the Texas state Senate and flipped a reliably Republican district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024.

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.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldOP
    201·
    5 days ago

    More evidence of buyer’s remorse, and that it’s only the smaller, culty faction of the Republican Party that supports what’s happening right now. The majority of Americans very clearly do not.

      • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldOP
        5·
        4 days ago

        Given the reason and opportunity, they will vote Republic卐n

        You can keep telling yourself that, but with more than two dozen districts flipped this year, the evidence for your point of view seems to be lacking. (At least from where I’m sitting.)

        • Jumbie@lemmy.zip
          212·
          4 days ago

          They are voting this way because the policies they wanted from TЯ☭mp are affecting them in their everyday lives.

          For example, they see their precious second amendment rights being stripped right in front of their eyes (Alex Pretti). Republicans can’t have that happen. They’d have one less god to worship.

              • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
                112·
                4 days ago

                If Trump was a communist, that would be nice, but no, I genuinely don’t know what you’re saying here.

                • floofloof@lemmy.ca
                  41·
                  4 days ago

                  I’d guess that either they think communism = all things bad (because they have no clue what communism is), or they think Trump is on Putin’s side and they didn’t notice that Russia hasn’t been communist for 35 years now. The most charitable reading is that they think Trump is authoritarian and that the USSR was not so much communist as an authoritarian dictatorship despite its communist rhetoric. That last one is at least debatable, but it requires more nuance than is probably there in sticking a hammer and sickle in the middle of Trump’s name.

          • whiskers165@lemmy.ml
            41·
            4 days ago

            Your childish understanding of politics is perfectly congruent with the immaturity evident in your behavior

            Guy who thinks Trump is a communist also acts like an insufferable child, go figure