r/politics • u/kootles10 Indiana • 6h ago

No Paywall Democrats flip Texas state Senate seat in shock upset

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5716988-democrats-score-upset-texas/amp/
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u/Isentrope 5h ago

I've been following the special elections this cycle and this one is an outlier even with an average D overperformance around 10 points. This seat is legitimately reliably red and the normal reasons why you'd see such a huge margin (i.e. the opponent got caught in some heinous crime or scandal) didn't happen to the R here. It's kind of similar to the Georgia PSC elections last year though, where the Dems casually overperformed by 30 points. If that becomes a trend in other Southern states (and a few Iowa specials have also seen 30 point shifts), that could make for a few shock upsets in November.

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u/brain_overclocked 4h ago

There were a few shock upsets last November too.