{"id":353470,"date":"2026-06-28T13:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T13:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/353470\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T13:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T13:52:15","slug":"in-tight-senate-race-republicans-say-trump-is-welcomed-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/353470\/","title":{"rendered":"In tight Senate race, Republicans say Trump is welcomed in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                New polls show the Texas Senate race between Republican Ken Paxton and Democrat James Talarico remains very tight with four months until the November midterm election. &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nLooking at the four most recent independent polls between June 1 and 21st, they show Paxton ahead of Talarico by a hair-splitting 1.25 percentage points. Paxton has 45.75%, and Talarico has 44.5%.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nPresident Trump and other Republican leaders, including Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, have said they will campaign in Texas for Paxton. As previously reported, Paxton reportedly said during a recent tele-town hall that Republicans will hold a special midterm convention at the American Airlines Center in Dallas.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nA source told CBS News Texas that the first two weeks of the facility have been reserved by the RNC, but it has not been officially booked yet.\n                      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New polls show the Texas Senate race between Republican Ken Paxton and Democrat James Talarico remains very tight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-353470","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\/353470","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=353470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}