{"id":477699,"date":"2026-10-27T02:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T02:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477699\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T02:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T02:00:21","slug":"president-trumps-planned-corpus-christi-rally-draws-mixed-reaction-from-texas-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477699\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump\u2019s planned Corpus Christi rally draws mixed reaction from Texas voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2013 President Donald Trump is scheduled to return to Texas on Tuesday \u2014 one week until Election Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/events.gop.com\/events\/midterm-rally-in-corpus-christi-tx-president-donald-j-trump-djt47\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/events.gop.com\/events\/midterm-rally-in-corpus-christi-tx-president-donald-j-trump-djt47\">Republican National Committee<\/a>, Trump will take the stage at the Port of Corpus Christi at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">His visit to Corpus Christi replaces a previously scheduled appearance in Waco, and is the third Texas stop in October for the midterm elections. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2026\/10\/08\/takeaways-from-president-donald-trumps-rally-in-san-antonio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2026\/10\/08\/takeaways-from-president-donald-trumps-rally-in-san-antonio\/\">Trump was in San Antonio<\/a> earlier this month, urging voters to back Republican candidates in closely watched races.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Ahead of the rally off the coast, voters shared sharply different views about the president and his visit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">\u201cI think it\u2019s a good thing. I think he\u2019s doing a great job for the country,\u201d said Ismael, a Texas voter. \u201cIf people don\u2019t see it that way, they don\u2019t have any business being in America. You want to raise a flag, raise the American flag. Stand up for America, embrace America, love America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Another voter, Liz, said she has no interest in attending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">\u201cWhat he does is anything he wants, and not what we want,\u201d she said. \u201cI want a president that represents the people, and he\u2019s not something I would go see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The visit is expected to help build support for Republican Eric Flores, who has Trump\u2019s endorsement and is challenging Democratic U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez in Texas\u2019 34th Congressional District. The district stretches from Brownsville to Corpus Christi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">It remains unclear who will join Trump on stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The Texas U.S. Senate race could also be a focus. During his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2026\/10\/08\/takeaways-from-president-donald-trumps-rally-in-san-antonio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2026\/10\/08\/takeaways-from-president-donald-trumps-rally-in-san-antonio\/\">San Antonio visit<\/a> earlier this month, Trump urged voters to support Republican Ken Paxton, who faces Democrat James Talarico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Gates are scheduled to open at 10:30 a.m., with the rally beginning at 12:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">After the Corpus Christi event, the president is scheduled to travel to Lubbock for another rally later that evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/vote-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/vote-2026\/\">election coverage<\/a> on KSAT:<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2013 President Donald Trump is scheduled to return to Texas on Tuesday \u2014 one week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[155,145,288,27,29,28,14165],"class_list":["post-477699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-corpus-christi","tag-donald-trump","tag-elections","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-vote-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477699","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=477699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}