{"id":387747,"date":"2026-07-27T14:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/387747\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:50:09","slug":"trump-dallas-convention-access-varies-by-state-as-texas-cuts-prices-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/387747\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Dallas convention access varies by state as Texas cuts prices \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of getting close to President Donald Trump is falling. Texas Republicans have slashed the price of their premium convention packages, cutting thousands of dollars off the price of a coveted spot at the Trump-led September gathering in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>D\u2019rinda Randall, chair of the Republican Party of Texas, said in a July 14 video on X that the party had fielded \u201cquestions about the cost and the access\u201d to its top-tier offerings for the Sept. 9-10 event at the American Airlines Center.<\/p>\n<p>The discounts offer one of the first public glimpses into how Republicans are building the gathering, and how state parties are taking markedly different approaches to deciding who gets in.<\/p>\n<p>When Trump announced the event, it carried the trappings of a national political convention. Weeks later, it increasingly resembles a hybrid rally and GOP fundraiser with convention-style branding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/politics\/article\/texas-republicans-cut-midterm-convention-prices-22359157.php\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read more on this report from our partners at The Dallas Morning News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cost of getting close to President Donald Trump is falling. Texas Republicans have slashed the price of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8709,8817,287,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-387747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-dallasnews-com","tag-lone-star-politics","tag-politics","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387747","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=387747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}