Democrat Taylor Rehmet faces Republican Leigh Wambsganss for Texas Senate District 9 in the Nov. 3, 2026, general election, according to the certified candidate list.

Background

The Texas Senate’s biography identifies Rehmet as the district’s current senator, serving since 2026, and describes him as an aerospace machinist, veteran and union leader from Garland.

His current campaign biography describes Air Force service followed by work building F-35 aircraft. It says coworkers elected him president of his local International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers chapter and he later became president of the union’s Texas State Council.

Campaign priorities

Rehmet’s current campaign calls for reducing everyday costs, expanding public-school funding and repealing private-school vouchers. It supports limiting appraisal increases, expanding veteran and senior exemptions, and increasing the state’s share of school funding.

He also proposes improving TEXRail and the 121, 820 and 183 corridors, changing toll-road pricing, strengthening renter protections and expanding veteran services. His platform supports a moratorium on new AI data centers until the Legislature establishes guidelines.

These are statements from his campaign website, rather than submitted Surround Sound Media questionnaire answers. No submitted response was available for this profile.

Responses are based on public data and answers to a Surround Sound Media questionnaire if they were provided.