A small business owner and former city councilman won a tight primary race and is now tasked with flipping one of Texas’ bluest House districts for Republicans, according to the Associated Press.
Republican Darrell Day, a former Arlington City Council member who founded an executive search firm, defeated his opponent, former Southern Methodist, in Tuesday’s Republican primary for the state’s 32nd Congressional District College football player David Blewett.
Day will now face Texas House of Representatives member Julie Johnson, a Democrat, in the November election. The winner will replace Democratic Rep. Colin Allred, who is running for U.S. Senate.
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Democrat Julie Johnson and Republican Darrell Day. (Julie Johnson for Congress/Darrell Day for Congress)
The Republican fight to overturn the district will be difficult, given that it covers densely populated urban areas north and east of downtown Dallas. The district was redistricted after the 2020 census, adding more areas that were solidly Democratic.
If Day wins the fight, his win would mark a historic underdog victory.
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Texas Democratic Rep. Colin Allred. (Emile Lippe/Getty Images)
Allred has represented the district since 2019 and won re-election in 2022 after redistricting with 65% of the vote. In 2020, he won in the old district with only 52% of the vote.
Top election analysts rate the race in Texas’ 32nd Congressional District as “solidly Democratic” or “safely Democratic.”
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