FORT WORTH, TX — In a shocking development that experts are calling “statistically impossible outside of Marvel movies,” Democrat Taylor Rehmet has triumphed in a special election for Texas’s state senate, flipping District 10—a seat previously believed to be so Republican it legally required a red filter on campaign ads.

Rehmet, a labor union leader and veteran, bested GOP stalwart Leigh Wambsganss by over 14 percentage points. The result has prompted immediate soul-searching within the Texas Republican Party, which issued a statement Monday blaming the loss on “dangerously high levels of voter literacy and persistent Wi-Fi access in the district.”

“We didn’t see this coming,” admitted local GOP strategist Buck Gentry, while hurriedly searching for District 10 on Google Maps. “Our data assumed voters were still only aware of two things: barbecue and the Alamo. We may have underestimated a third: counting votes.”

National Republican spokesperson Trish Drammond denounced the outcome as the result of “urban infiltration,” accusing Rehmet of “illegally mobilizing the working class, teachers, and other people who don’t own boats.”

Local resident Chad Finkley, 56, said he realized things had changed when he saw an electric car outside the Whataburger. “That’s how they get you,” Finkley whispered. “First it’s the unions, next thing you know we’re teaching kids about recycling.”

At press time, the Texas GOP announced plans for a mandatory ‘Red Hat Dress Code’ at all polling places to avert further ideological contamination.