{"id":890060,"date":"2026-09-10T04:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T04:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/890060\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T04:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T04:36:10","slug":"live-updates-trump-speaks-at-republican-midterms-convention-in-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/890060\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Trump speaks at Republican midterms convention in Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paxton&#8217;s dress sense criticised during endorsementpublished at 02:45 BST<\/p>\n<p>02:45 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trump is now speaking about Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is running for the US Senate in the midterms. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It does not start like a typical endorsement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The fact is that some may not like the way he dresses. I don&#8217;t,&#8221; Trump said, before adding, &#8220;although tonight he looked very spiffy in his blue suit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ken Paxton\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ce4a5654-2f1c-4595-91cd-b902e1974cfb.jpg.webp\"  width=\"4487\" height=\"2523\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, EPAImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paxton stepped out in a blue suit and red tie in Dallas<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You may not like the way he looks,&#8221; Trump continues. &#8220;But here&#8217;s the news: in the history of Texas, he is the single greatest attorney general you&#8217;ve ever had, and maybe the top attorney general in the whole United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paxton, a staunch Trump ally who has faced controversy during his tenure as attorney general, is running against Democratic state lawmaker James Talarico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The seat has gone Republican in recent decades, but Democrats are hoping for an upset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paxton&#8217;s dress sense criticised during endorsementpublished at 02:45 BST 02:45 BST Trump is now speaking about Texas Attorney&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-890060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}