{"id":344701,"date":"2026-06-21T13:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T13:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/344701\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T13:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T13:02:07","slug":"abbott-slams-democratic-candidates-at-texas-gop-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/344701\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbott slams Democratic candidates at Texas GOP convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                Texas Republican leaders repeated their urgent message at the state party&#8217;s recent convention in Houston: unity drives victory. &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nEven so, Republicans made a major change in party leadership, selecting Vice Chair D&#8217;rinda Randall as their new Chair of the Texas GOP over existing Chairman Abraham George. Paige the Elephant was also brought to the convention in a surprise appearance after Governor Greg Abbott&#8217;s speech. As she was being escorted around the venue, she stopped to urinate on the floor. &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nAbbott is seeking a fourth term, and during his speech to attendees, he criticized the top three Democrats on the statewide ballot this fall.\n                      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Republican leaders repeated their urgent message at the state party&#8217;s recent convention in Houston: unity drives victory.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-344701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344701","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=344701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}