Big shifts among Latino voters fueled a Texas Democrat’s upset victory in a state senate district in the Fort Worth area that’s been dominated by Republicans for more than three decades, according to an analysis of results from the Jan. 31 election.
In one precinct of the city’s heavily Latino Northside neighborhood, 81% of voters picked Democrat Taylor Rehmet, a labor union leader. In the same precinct in 2024, by contrast, 51% chose President Donald Trump, who praised Rehmet’s GOP rival before the Jan. 31 vote. Several nearby precincts backed Rehmet at 90% or more compared with about 60% for ...
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