In Tarrant County, a Hub for the Far Right, a Democrat Seeks a Major Upset

It was the last week before the start of early voting, in the runoff election for a vacated state Senate seat, and Democratic candidate Taylor Rehmet was tucked into the party room of a Fort Worth brewery, pitching himself to a handful of graying North Texas voters as they picked at cold pizza and mozzarella sticks. Most of the fifteen or so attendees at the January 15 meet and greet were already firm supporters of Rehmet’s once seemingly long shot campaign to flip their ruby-red district blue. But Rehmet, an Air Force veteran and statewide union leader, wasn’t taking any chances. Every vote counts, Rehmet told them. Every door knock matters, he said as they nodded in agreement. After Rehmet concluded his brief stump speech, a…

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