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The data came in and it's look EVEN WORSE for Republicans.
>Turnout wasn't low like other special elections. Nearly 95,000 people voted, with 95% of the estimated vote reporting as of Monday morning.
>And a Texas-based pollster did an analysis of the turnout and found that the Democrat who won—veteran and machinist Taylor Rehmet—pulled off the victory because Republican voters crossed party lines to vote Democratic. That's a stunning outcome in the polarized political times in which we live.
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"Republicans did not lose the TX SD-9 runoff because of low GOP turnout: they lost because almost all of the independents and some of the Republicans voted Dem," Ross Hunt, the Dallas-based pollster, wrote in a post on Twitter. "Of those who voted in the TX SD-9 runoff, 50%+ were GOP primary voters or at GOP HH [householded]; only 35% were Dems or at Dem HH."
>Even worse for Republicans is that their typical playbook of nationalizing a race to scare Republicans into voting didn't work here.
>In fact, data suggests the GOP candidate did worse on Election Day than in the early-voting period—a sign Trump's endorsement likely didn’t help (and may have even hurt) the Republican nominee.
