{"id":356973,"date":"2026-07-01T07:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T07:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/356973\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T07:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T07:49:14","slug":"trump-announces-republican-midterm-convention-in-dallas-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/356973\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Announces Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump announced on Tuesday that the Republican Party would hold an unusual midterm convention in September in Dallas as he seeks to mobilize his party before the fall elections.<\/p>\n

Party conventions are typically held only in presidential election years. But Mr. Trump became enamored with the idea of a splashy midterm convention last year, and party officials have been planning the logistics of the event for months.<\/p>\n

The convention will be held from Sept. 9-10, Mr. Trump said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has never been done before, and will be a truly Historic Event,\u201d he wrote on Truth Social, his social media platform, adding, \u201cWe will also have lots of Great Entertainment \u2014 It will be a RALLY like none other!\u201d<\/p>\n

The New York Times previously reported<\/a> that Dallas had emerged as the likely site of the convention.<\/p>\n

The party that holds the White House has historically lost ground in midterm elections, and Republican officials see the two-day convention just ahead of early voting as offering the party a large platform to make the case to stay in power.<\/p>\n

A list of featured speakers and candidates was not immediately announced, but Mr. Trump said the event would feature \u201cinnovators, entrepreneurs, manufacturers, first responders, and job creators.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump\u2019s approval ratings<\/a> have dropped sharply since his second term began, and some Democrats are eager for a convention where vulnerable Republicans in battleground states and swing seats will yoke themselves to him.<\/p>\n

In the Trump era, the Republican Party has underperformed in elections where Mr. Trump himself is not on the ballot.<\/p>\n

Democrats had briefly considered holding a midterm convention of their own, but the Democratic National Committee decided against such a pricey event.<\/p>\n

The Republican National Committee, which is overseeing the party\u2019s convention, entered June with more than $125 million in the bank, while the D.N.C. is saddled with more debts than cash on hand.<\/p>\n

Party officials had searched for an arena and a city large enough to host the convention before settling on Dallas.<\/p>\n

The location could bring added attention to the Texas Senate race, which pits James Talarico, a Democratic state legislator and seminarian, against Ken Paxton, the Republican state attorney general, who ousted Senator John Cornyn in the primary race with Mr. Trump\u2019s support. Texas has not elected a Democrat statewide in decades, but Mr. Talarico has become one of his party\u2019s top fund-raisers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump announced on Tuesday that the Republican Party would hold an unusual midterm convention in September in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[43498,3266,61240,55474,3270,27,29,28,2558,3253],"class_list":["post-356973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-dallas-tex","tag-donald-j","tag-midterm-elections-2026","tag-republican-national-convention","tag-republican-party","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-trump","tag-united-states-politics-and-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356973","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=356973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}