{"id":478089,"date":"2026-10-27T11:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T11:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478089\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T11:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T11:32:08","slug":"live-updates-president-trump-to-campaign-in-corpus-christi-ahead-of-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478089\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE UPDATES: President Trump to campaign in Corpus Christi ahead of election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, TX \u2014 President Donald Trump is set to speak at a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/news\/local-news\/in-your-neighborhood\/corpus-christi\/location-announced-for-president-trumps-corpus-christi-midterm-rally\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">campaign rally in Corpus Christi on Tuesday<\/a> ahead of the midterm election next week.<\/p>\n<p>The president has rallies scheduled in Corpus Christi and Lubbock. Trump is trying to shore up support for U.S. Senate candidate Ken Paxton, who is locked in a tight race with Democratic candidate James Talarico.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is expected to speak at 2 p.m. at a site located at 990 E Port Ave., in Corpus Christi.<\/p>\n<p>Watch as we follow the latest updates in the player below.<\/p>\n<p>KRIS 6 Sunrise<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, October 27 <\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/news\/texas-news\/trump-and-rubio-plan-to-visit-oil-tanker-carrying-venezuelan-crude-in-texas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">plan to show off a newly arrived oil tanker<\/a> filled with Venezuelan crude to be processed in Texas refineries, according to a report from the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>The visit to Port Arthur, Texas, comes on the same day that Trump is campaigning in the state for Republican candidates in the midterms.<\/p>\n<p>Monday, October 26 &#8211; 12 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Officials announced several road restrictions across the area that are expected as part of President Trump&#8217;s Tuesday arrival.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/news\/local-news\/in-your-neighborhood\/corpus-christi\/location-announced-for-president-trumps-corpus-christi-midterm-rally\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">full list of road restrictions<\/a> here. Check <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/traffic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nearby traffic conditions<\/a> here.<\/p>\n<p>Monday, October 26 &#8211; 10:45 a.m. <\/p>\n<p>Vice President J.D. Vance is no longer planning a trip to Corpus Christi this week, according to the Nueces County Republican Party Chairman Carmen Calderone, Jr. He was originally set to attend an event on Thursday, following President Trump&#8217;s visit on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Monday, October 26 &#8211; 10:20 a.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, TX \u2014 President Donald Trump is set to speak at a campaign rally in Corpus Christi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-478089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478089","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=478089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}