{"id":344711,"date":"2026-06-21T13:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T13:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/344711\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T13:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T13:38:09","slug":"abbott-slams-democratic-candidates-at-texas-gop-convention-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/344711\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbott slams Democratic candidates at Texas GOP convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Texas Republican leaders repeated their urgent message at the state party&#8217;s recent convention in Houston: unity drives victory. Even 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. Abbott is seeking a fourth term, and during his speech to attendees, he criticized the top three Democrats on the statewide ballot this fall.<\/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":344712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[119527,6944,122965,27,29,28,79137,122966],"class_list":["post-344711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-abraham-george","tag-governor-greg-abbott","tag-party-leadership","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-republican","tag-urgent-message"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344711","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=344711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}