The Unusual Working-Class Message That Turned a Deep-Red District Blue
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Screenshot of Taylor Rehmet from the video: Democrat Taylor Rehmet on his upset win for Texas State Senate seat – CBS News. Article by Monica Potts. The New Republic – February 4, 2026.
The issues that have worked for Democrats around the country this election season—affordability and working-class stability chief among them—also worked for Taylor Rehmet, a union president and machinist who beat his Trump-backed opponent for a deep-red state Senate seat in the Fort Worth area of Texas last weekend. But his platform included something more unusual and a little retro: a promise to return vocational education to public high schools. […]
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Video: Democrat Taylor Rehmet on his upset win for Texas State Senate seat – CBS News
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