GOP pushes back on narrative of an approaching 'blue wave' in the Lone Star state
Texas Republicans refuted talk of a coming "blue wave" on Tuesday by flipping a state senate seat that had long been held by the Democratic Party.Republican Peter Flores, a retired game warden, pulled an upset win in a special election for Texas’s 19th Senate District over the Democratic nominee, former congressman Pete Gallego.
The district...until recently one of the most Democratic in Texas.
...The seat became vacant earlier this year after the long-serving Democratic state senator, Carlos Uresti, resigned upon being convicted of 11 federal felonies relating to his alleged involvement in a Ponzi scheme.
...Apart from becoming the first GOP member to hold the seat in 139 years, Flores will further have the distinction of being the Texas Senate's first Hispanic Republican..."
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