{"id":476738,"date":"2026-10-26T02:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T02:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/476738\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T02:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T02:18:11","slug":"jd-vance-to-hold-midterm-rally-in-weatherford-texas-amid-tight-paxton-talarico-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/476738\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance to hold midterm rally in Weatherford, Texas, amid tight Paxton-Talarico Senate race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/j-d-vance\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vice President JD Vance<\/a> will headline a midterm rally in Weatherford, Texas, this Thursday, the Republican Party announced on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The rally will be held at JRJ Construction on SW Ric Williamson Memorial Highway in Weatherford on Oct. 29, according to the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>The event is scheduled to begin at 12:15 p.m., with doors opening at 10 a.m. Vance is scheduled to speak at 1:50 p.m., according to the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>The vice president previously headlined a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/video\/president-trump-vice-president-vance-to-make-more-campaign-stops-near-north-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">rally in Harlingen in September<\/a>, where he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/trump-texas-oklahoma-midterms-ken-paxton-october-1-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">acknowledged broad discontentment over the high prices in the U.S.<\/a> but shifted the blame away from President Trump and Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know that there are people out there who are frustrated by the pace of progress,&#8221; he said at the event, but &#8220;we have spent every single day fighting for you, digging ourselves out of the hole that Joe Biden left us in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vance also headlined a GOP rally in Tyler, Texas, on Oct. 13.<\/p>\n<p>The vice president&#8217;s visit will come after Mr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/trump-fourth-texas-visit-lubbock-waco-rallies-2026-midterms\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trump&#8217;s fourth scheduled event in the Lone Star State<\/a>\u00a0in the runup to the midterms. The president is scheduled to hold rallies in Lubbock and Corpus Christi on Tuesday, Oct. 27.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/trump-fourth-texas-visit-lubbock-waco-rallies-2026-midterms\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trump previously rallied <\/a>in Dallas in September for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/republicans-dallas-first-ever-midterm-convention-history-at-stake\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RNC midterm convention<\/a>, also known as &#8220;Trumpapalooza,&#8221; in Denton in early October and then in San Antonio. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CBS News poll shows tight Senate race in Texas between Talarico and Paxton<\/p>\n<p>A recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/texas-senate-talarico-paxton-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CBS News poll shows<\/a> the Senate race in Texas is essentially tied between Talarico and Paxton as Election Day approaches.<\/p>\n<p>The poll found that Paxton benefits from the state&#8217;s overall Republican leanings, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/james-talarico-fundraising-haul-record-texas-senate-ken-paxton\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Talarico draws support<\/a> from voters&#8217; economic concerns and more favorable perceptions of his personal character.<\/p>\n<p>Talarico&#8217;s standing is also bolstered by a greater share of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/feature\/2026-midterm-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Democrats saying they will definitely vote<\/a>, leaving the race up for grabs in the final weeks of the campaign. Higher Republican turnout could shift the balance in Paxton&#8217;s favor.<\/p>\n<p>Many Paxton supporters say they are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/poll-house-estimate-midterm-elections-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">backing him because he is the Republican nominee<\/a>, they oppose Talarico or they want to support Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vice President JD Vance will headline a midterm rally in Weatherford, Texas, this Thursday, the Republican Party announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[145,147,3270,27,29,75069,28,7813],"class_list":["post-476738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-donald-trump","tag-jd-vance","tag-republican-party","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-midterm-elections","tag-texas-news","tag-weatherford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476738","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=476738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}