Rep. Mihaela Plesa survived a heated GOP challenge. Heres how she thinks Democrats can prevail. [Video]

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Less than a week before Election Day, Gov. Greg Abbott dropped $19,000 on advertising to boost Republican Steve Kinard in what appeared to be an increasingly competitive race for a North Texas House seat.

In the end, it didn’t work. Rep. Mihaela Plesa, D-Dallas, kept her seat.

“Ya missed one,” she gloated in a social media post taunting Abbott. She was responding to the governor’s own post on X, claiming that all of the Republicans he backed for the House had won.

In total, Abbott spent nearly $37,000 to unseat Plesa — one of four House seats he tried in earnest to flip from blue to red this cycle.

Not only did she win her seat targeted by Republicans, but she grew her win margin this election compared to her race in 2022 when she ran the first time and became …