{"id":333987,"date":"2026-06-12T18:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/333987\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T18:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:56:07","slug":"texas-gop-chairman-abraham-george-of-plano-loses-reelection-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/333987\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas GOP Chairman Abraham George of Plano loses reelection bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON \u2013\u00a0Texas Republican Party Chairman Abraham George conceded defeat Friday in his bid for a second term, paving the way for the party\u2019s vice chairwoman, D\u2019Rinda Randall, to lead the party.<\/p>\n<p>George, of Plano, spent the past two years supporting efforts to require Republican Party registration to vote in primaries and censure GOP officeholders who strayed from the party\u2019s legislative priorities.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abrahamgeorge\/status\/2065451039478653067?s=46&amp;t=C8a6xI_42EtdGe2XVhafOQ\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">on social media<\/a>, George said he would continue to stand \u201cfirmly for the conservative principles outlined in our platform\u201d and urged Republicans to rally behind the party\u2019s nominees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow is the time to come together,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>George\u2019s supporters included Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Republican Senate nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Attendance at the convention was sparse as Houston hosted FIFA World Cup matches, and at least one executive committee member complained about a party budget shortfall.<\/p>\n<p>Randall, of Waxahachie, takes over as Republicans seek to maintain their dominance in Texas with Paxton and Gov. Greg Abbott atop the ticket, even as Democrats hope to make the state more competitive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013\u00a0Texas Republican Party Chairman Abraham George conceded defeat Friday in his bid for a second term, paving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-333987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}