Joseph P Trahan is an interesting politician. In 2022, he was a dedicated Democrat seeking state office in the heavy Democrat district 22. He got into primary the runoff but lost to the eventual Democrat winner. Then the longtime incumbent State Senator from Senate District 15 won the Houston Mayoral election and resigned from the Senate. A special election was called to fill out the Senate term and there was Mr. Trahan running as a Republican. As the only Republican running, he won the primary with 100 percent of the vote (23,627). In the General election, he lost by over 75,000 votes to the current incumbent, democrat Molly Cook. A suspicious person might question this late blooming republican stalwart attempting to undermine the Republican candidate for Governor in an election where the only alternative is a radical Democrat.