{"id":453133,"date":"2026-10-01T12:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453133\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T12:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:06:08","slug":"live-updates-trump-to-travel-to-texas-and-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453133\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Trump to travel to Texas and Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1s\">Trump will travel south today to tour a motor facility in Denton, Texas, and deliver remarks in Durant, Oklahoma. <\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1v\">The president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2026-election\/trump-says-will-campaign-republicans-35-races-ahead-midterms-rcna595807\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">previously said<\/a> he would campaign for Republicans in 35 races ahead of the midterm elections, which are a little over a month away. The Texas Senate race is considered a major battleground, but the president does not have a campaign event on his schedule in the state today. <\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1y\">In Oklahoma, Rep. Kevin Hern, a Republican, is facing off against Democrat N&#8217;Kiyla Thomas for the Senate seat while Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2026-election\/mike-mazzei-winner-oklahoma-republican-governor-primary-trump-rcna593583\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mike Mazzei<\/a> and Democrat Cyndi Munson square off in the governor&#8217;s race. NBC News has classified both races as &#8220;solid GOP.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"21\">Trump previously won both states in his presidential bids. Tomorrow, the president plans to hold a rally in Mobile, Alabama. That state, too, is considered solidly red. <\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"24\">Trump has previously urged his base supporters to turn out to vote and pretend like<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/trump-energize-base-midterm-convention-dallas-rcna596592\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> he is on the ballot <\/a>as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2026-election\/nbc-news-polling-averages-democrats-enjoy-biggest-lead-yet-race-congre-rcna599378\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">polling shows <\/a>Republicans facing strong headwinds going into the final stretch of campaigning before the midterms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump will travel south today to tour a motor facility in Denton, Texas, and deliver remarks in Durant,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-453133","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\/453133","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=453133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}