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<\/p>\nDALLAS – We’re less than two weeks away from the Republican National Committee’s midterm convention in Dallas, and today, Dallas officials detailed how the city will handle the event.<\/p>\n
Republican National Committee midterm convention <\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
The Republican National Committee midterm convention will be held at the American Airlines Center on Sept. 9 and Sept. 10.<\/p>\n
Each day will be split into two blocks. The first block will occur from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., and the second block will run from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump will be in attendance on both nights of the convention, and he is scheduled to speak on Sept. 10.<\/p>\n
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On Sept. 9, speakers include Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President J.D. Vance. On Sept. 10, events include Trump’s speech, a tribute to Charli Kirk, and a tribute marking the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, World Trade Center attacks.<\/p>\n
Dallas RNC midterm plans <\/p>\n
Local perspective:<\/p>\n
On Thursday, Dallas officials gave details on how they plan on handling the influx of people in town for the RNC midterm convention.<\/p>\n
Dallas is estimating<\/a> a $1.8 million cost for Dallas Police to provide security for the event.<\/p>\n City officials plan to document spending and pursue any available grants or reimbursements, using procedures similar to those used after federally declared disasters and for the FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n “Dallas will be ready, approaching the same way, planning with commitment to public safety,” Dallas City Manager Kim Tolbert said.<\/p>\n Expected street closures for RNC midterm convention <\/p>\n Several streets will be closed near the American Airlines Center from Sept. 7 until midnight on Sept. 11. Affected streets include: Victory Avenue, North Houston Street, Nowitzki Way, Payne Street, and North Field Street.<\/p>\n The DART Victory Park station will also be closed during the event.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this story comes from the Republican National Committee and a City of Dallas press conference.<\/p>\n Dallas<\/a>Dallas Police Department<\/a>Politics<\/a>Texas Politics<\/a>Donald J. Trump<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS – We’re less than two weeks away from the Republican National Committee’s midterm convention in Dallas, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,581,104,103,401,7810,223,1827,391,287,216,395,393],"class_list":["post-418727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-police","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-news","tag-organization","tag-people","tag-politics","tag-tx","tag-tx-politics","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418727","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=418727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/p-lori-ll-rnc-convention-in-dallas-530p_00.00.24.08.jpg\")
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