{"id":339167,"date":"2026-06-17T00:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T00:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/339167\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T00:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T00:46:12","slug":"tribcast-deep-in-the-heart-of-the-texas-gop-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/339167\/","title":{"rendered":"TribCast: Deep in the heart of the Texas GOP convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The GOP convention just wrapped in Houston. The biennial affair was marked by high-powered elected officials, low turnout from the base and robust calls for unity \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2026\/06\/14\/texas-gop-convention-houston-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">whether or not they were heard by all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Texas Tribune politics reporter Alejandro Serrano and lead Blast writer Renzo Downey were in the thick of things, and came back to tell TribCast what they saw. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch the video above or subscribe to the TribCast on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/texas-tribune-tribcast\/id338118901\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/179QJgS6m0z2zShjfFsEJv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.texastribune.org\/feeds\/podcasts\/tribcast\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RSS<\/a>. New episodes every Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/author\/eleanor-klibanoff\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Avatar photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Eleanor-Klibanoff-NP-Update-120x120.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo\" height=\"120\" width=\"120\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEleanor Klibanoff is the law and politics reporter, based in Austin, where she covers the the Texas Legislature, the Office of the Attorney General, state and federal courts and politics writ large. She&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/author\/eleanor-klibanoff\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Eleanor Klibanoff\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The GOP convention just wrapped in Houston. The biennial affair was marked by high-powered elected officials, low turnout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[56,287,2280,27,29,28,17874],"class_list":["post-339167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-houston","tag-politics","tag-republican-party-of-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tribcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339167","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=339167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}