Wanted to put out a plug for my friend, fellow Aggie, and former mayor of Southlake John Huffman.

He could use your vote. I don't know much about his primary opponent, Leigh W, other than she has been relentless with negative campaigning on lies about John.

And I'm pretty sure she's not an Aggie.

Keller6Ag91 said:

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Wanted to put out a plug for my friend, fellow Aggie, and former mayor of Southlake John Huffman.

He could use your vote. I don't know much about his primary opponent, Leigh W, other than she has been relentless with negative campaigning on lies about John.

And I'm pretty sure she's not an Aggie.

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As a district 9 voter, I'm going with the Trump, Cruz and Patrick endorsed Republican candidate not largely financed by gambling interests... Aggie or not.

Desert Ag said:

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Keller6Ag91 said:

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Wanted to put out a plug for my friend, fellow Aggie, and former mayor of Southlake John Huffman.

He could use your vote. I don't know much about his primary opponent, Leigh W, other than she has been relentless with negative campaigning on lies about John.

And I'm pretty sure she's not an Aggie.

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As a district 9 voter, I'm going with the Trump, Cruz and Patrick endorsed Republican candidate not largely financed by gambling interests... Aggie or not.

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I see we've bought into the lies of negative campaigning.

Runoff election today between Republican Wambsganss and Democrat Rehmet.

Seeing any results anywhere?

Tarrant County site has some returns up already. Presumably it's just from the early and mail vote:
https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/TX/Tarrant/125768/web.345435/#/summary?linklocation=Graphical%20Election%20Night%20Reporting&linkname=January%2031,%202026%20-%20State%20Senate%20District%209%20Runoff%C2%A0%3C%2F

Has the Dem at 56.23% and Republican at 43.77%


Election Day results should still be coming in.

Did see a twitter report that Election Day turnout was "thru the roof" in Democrat areas.

The Dem is ahead 56-44 with about 45% of the vote in.

Jugstore Cowboy said:

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Tarrant County site has some returns up already. Presumably it's just from the early and mail vote:
https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/TX/Tarrant/125768/web.345435/#/summary?linklocation=Graphical%20Election%20Night%20Reporting&linkname=January%2031,%202026%20-%20State%20Senate%20District%209%20Runoff%C2%A0%3C%2F

Has the Dem at 56.23% and Republican at 43.77%


Election Day results should still be coming in.

Did see a twitter report that Election Day turnout was "thru the roof" in Democrat areas.

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Did you mean "thru the coffin lid?"

GOP should win this one easily. Probably by double digits. Super embarrassing if this ended up
As a DEM win. That won't happen of course.

Only article I could find, my apologies.
John Huffman: The Wrong Choice for Texas Senate?

• Families across Texas are grappling with rising prices, skyrocketing property taxes and struggling to make ends meet, yet Huffman prioritized a $3.85 million taxpayer-funded pickleball complex in Southlake during his tenure as Mayor
• Total appropriations ballooned from $104.6 million in FY 2022 to $117.2 million in FY 2023 and again to $126.7 million in FY 2024, for a total increase of more than 21% in government spending in just 3 years.

I have limited information on this race. Are there articles showing John Huffman's policies in a more conservative light in support of his conservative policies.

Democrat won by about 14,000 votes or 14%.

Captn_Ag05 said:

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Democrat won by about 14,000 votes or 14%.

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The election in November is for the 4 year term. It will be a rematch. This was just to finish out Hancocks term that ends in December. The Legislature is not in session this year. Republicans better get off their asses and vote in the general later this year.

So Wambsganss lost a district by 14 that Trump won by 17 and had been red since 1981.

The dirty campaign against Huffman probably lost this for her more than anything; from what I gathered she did not make any effort to smooth things over with his supporters after November and, at the same time, really did not go after Rehmet although he almost won the November election outright. She got lazy and assumed that people would just show up and vote her in because the district was red and Trump was supporting her.

Regardless, she is damaged goods and hopefully the GOP has someone better in mind that will challenge her in March.

This will flip Dem and most of the the thanks goes to Aggie Huffman. Super low turnout comes with a special election runoff.

Had he stayed out of the November special election race, Republicans keep this seat.

The 2 republicans in November combined for +50. Huffman performed terribly there but forced the need for today's runoff.

Terrible.

About 2 or 3 people know what district they're in.

I will add that Wambsganss ran a terrible negative campaign against Huffman in November.

Doesn't change that he screwed things in November by running in an election he had no chance of winning

Trump dragging the local Rs into the gutter with him.

txwxman said:

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Trump dragging the local Rs into the gutter with him.

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No. Soft, limp noodle, moderates are listening to the democrat propaganda and falling for it like they always do.

I had forgotten that she was also involved in supporting the proposed Keller ISD split which probably turned off a lot of Republicans in the "Alliance ISD" area.

Republicans are incapable of turning out for special elections.

That said, it is a meaningless election.

The legislature will not meet again until 2027 and this seat will be up again in November.

Gives the Dems a big talking point but a few things happens here. Huffman voters stayed home. The freeze was almost all of early voting which kept old voters home. Dems ran a guy as a faux republican. The fliers didn't even have Democrat. Just veteran and mechanic.

I highly doubt this will be the case come November.

Offfff!

57.2%D - 42.8%R with 95% of the vote in.

This was a Trump +18 district in 2024.

What an upset. That's a swing of 32 pts.

Yesterday said:

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Gives the Dems a big talking point but a few things happens here. Huffman voters stayed home. The freeze was almost all of early voting which kept old voters home. Dems ran a guy as a faux republican. The fliers didn't even have Democrat. Just veteran and mechanic.

I highly doubt this will be the case come November.

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Yeah, that's a major red flag when we are dependent on old people to win an election. Yes, I realize this has pretty much always been the case, but the trends in every other demographic seem to be in the communist's favor.

Midterms are not trending well.

sorry, the Republican candidate's last name is what?? https://t.co/L2o6o4BWOI pic.twitter.com/uGK5vi1TrC

— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) February 1, 2026

NYT is celebrating wildly this morning.

So this entire election was for who could have the (i) by their their name in November? Since the general is in November and the Senate is not in session this year, what else is gained other than running as an "incumbent"?

first morning in a month I haven't been bombarded with texts from these people
that's a win right there

Yesterday said:

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Gives the Dems a big talking point but a few things happens here. Huffman voters stayed home. The freeze was almost all of early voting which kept old voters home. Dems ran a guy as a faux republican. The fliers didn't even have Democrat. Just veteran and mechanic.

I highly doubt this will be the case come November.

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The precinct data is what would be interesting to see. Turnout was obviously way down for a special election during a winter weather event, but maybe/clearly the Democrat candidate did a good job on his side.

For reference: the last general election total votes were 277,883 as the total votes yesterday were 94,865.

Republicans did a horrible job informing their base and mobilizing voters to the ballot box. pic.twitter.com/S3XZHn3wkU

— Ryan D. Kelley (@ryandkelley1) February 1, 2026

I read that she actually got 2K less than she actually got in the primary in November. I don't like defending blowout losses in red districts in any case, but this again might not be what the leftists are claiming it to be.

OldArmy71 said:

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NYT is celebrating wildly this morning.

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Before the election, R's were worried about winning narrowly…" A special election runoff on Saturday in the once reliably conservative suburbs of Fort Worth, Texas, has turned into a nail-biter for Republicans, who worry that even a narrow G.O.P. victory in the State Senate race could be a bad sign for their midterm prospects."

In Politics and media, perception is reality. Republicans and Conservatives would do well to learn this at some point in their evolution before they are stamped out.

And the perception will now be that the left is gaining ground in a supposedly red fortress county. If it's really a fortress, then it should mobilize and galvanize the hell out of the people in that county. Will it?