Texas’ status as a crimson red state is not in doubt after voters chose Republicans for every contested statewide elected office during the 2014 General Election by wide margins. Yet that trend did not bleed into other races as Susan Reed and Craig Watkins—two of the Lone Star State’s highest-profile prosecutors—were both ousted from their jobs by bipartisan challengers.
The biggest surprise of the Nov. 4 election may have been the defeat of Republican Reed, Bexar County’s district attorney of 16 years, who was sent packing by her Democratic challenger, Nicholas “Nico” LaHood.
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