{"id":213532,"date":"2026-03-08T03:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=213532"},"modified":"2026-03-08T03:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:12:18","slug":"democrats-flip-texas-state-senate-seat-in-shock-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=213532","title":{"rendered":"Democrats flip Texas state Senate seat in shock upset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats scored a stunning upset on Saturday in a special election runoff for Texas Senate, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ, giving the party a major boost ahead of the November midterms. Fort Worth Democrat Taylor Rehmet, a machinist and Air Force veteran, defeated Southlake Republican Leigh Wambsganss to fill the vacant state Senate&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5716988-democrats-score-upset-texas\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats scored a stunning upset on Saturday in a special election runoff for Texas Senate,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ksa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213532-democrats-flip-texas-state-senate-seat-in-shock-upset.jpeg",900,505,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213532-democrats-flip-texas-state-senate-seat-in-shock-upset-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213532-democrats-flip-texas-state-senate-seat-in-shock-upset-300x168.jpeg",300,168,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213532-democrats-flip-texas-state-senate-seat-in-shock-upset-768x431.jpeg",640,359,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213532-democrats-flip-texas-state-senate-seat-in-shock-upset.jpeg",640,359,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213532-democrats-flip-texas-state-senate-seat-in-shock-upset.jpeg",900,505,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213532-democrats-flip-texas-state-senate-seat-in-shock-upset.jpeg",900,505,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213532-democrats-flip-texas-state-senate-seat-in-shock-upset.jpeg",900,505,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213532-democrats-flip-texas-state-senate-seat-in-shock-upset-825x505.jpeg",825,505,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213532-democrats-flip-texas-state-senate-seat-in-shock-upset-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=27\" rel=\"category\">Saudi Arabia<\/a>","tag_info":"Saudi Arabia","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/213533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}