{"id":478117,"date":"2026-10-27T12:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T12:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478117\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T12:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T12:16:12","slug":"live-updates-trump-returns-to-texas-to-rally-for-gop-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478117\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Trump returns to Texas to rally for GOP candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1j\">Trump will travel back to Texas again today for back-to-back rallies in Corpus Christi and Lubbock. <\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1m\">Texas&#8217; Senate race pits Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton against Democratic state Rep. James Talarico. In the governor&#8217;s race, Gov. Greg Abbott is facing off against Democratic state Rep. Gina Hinojosa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1p\">Corpus Christi sits in the state&#8217;s 34th Congressional District, which is one of the more competitive House races next week. Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez is vying for a second term while facing Republican Eric Flores. Texas&#8217; congressional map was redrawn this cycle, kicking off a redistricting battle across the country. <\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1s\">Meanwhile, Vice President JD Vance will hold a rally in Howell, Michigan. Michigan&#8217;s Senate race is also a top battleground, with Republican former Rep. Mike Rogers facing Democrat Abdul El-Sayed. In the governor&#8217;s race, Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson faces Republican Rep. John James. <\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1x\">Howell is in Michigan&#8217;s 7th Congressional District, which is also a House battleground. Republican Rep. Tom Barrett faces Democrat William Lawrence in the central Michigan district. <\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"20\">Both Trump and Vance have made a series of trips across the country this month in the final stretch ahead of the midterm elections. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump will travel back to Texas again today for back-to-back rallies in Corpus Christi and Lubbock. Texas&#8217; Senate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-478117","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\/478117","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=478117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}