Democrats Are Flipping Trump Districts in Texas?
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🗓️ 3 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | So a Democrat just won a special election in a Texas district that went for Trump by 17 points, |
| 0:08.4 | and the Democrat won by 14. |
| 0:10.1 | That's a 30-point shift. |
| 0:12.0 | Does this mean the Trump-vibe shift is over? |
| 0:15.3 | Welcome to the Reason Roundtable. |
| 0:16.8 | This is your Libertarian Review of News and Culture from the editors of Reason Magazine. |
| 0:21.4 | I'm your host, Peter Souterman, and today I am joined by my colleagues, Catherine McGuward, |
| 0:26.0 | Matt Welch, and the triumphantly returning Nick Gillespie. |
| 0:29.8 | Happy Monday. |
| 0:30.6 | Welcome back. |
| 0:32.1 | Thanks. |
| 0:33.5 | I'm not sure it's triumphant, but, you know, we'll see. |
| 0:37.4 | Let's make this a triumph. In fact, this is going to be our first triumph for the week because I want to let you all know that even though it's an icy mess in D.C. right now, you should come out this week to the Reason Roundtable Live. It is this Wednesday, February 4th, at the comedy seller here in Washington, D.C. We're going to talk about the news. We're going to answer your questions. And then we're all going to go to a bar afterwards. It's going to be a great time. And it is absolutely going to be worth hiking through the capital tundra and the mountains of Snowcrete. This is a new word they just invented for what's going on in Washington, D.C. But it's all over D.C.'s roads and sidewalks. |
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| 1:20.1 | Reason Roundtable Live this Wednesday. Hope to see you there. Okay, so speaking of ice and messes |
| 1:25.7 | in Washington, D.C., let's talk about Congress. |
| 1:29.6 | Democrat Christian Meneffi won a special election this weekend in a Texas House district, |
| 1:34.1 | narrowing the House Republican majority. |
| 1:36.6 | There was also another election runoff in Texas for state Senate. |
| 1:39.6 | And in that election, Democrat Taylor Remit won by 14 points in a district where President |
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