President Donald Trump returned to Corpus Christi for the second time in less than a year, holding a rally one week before Election Day to encourage support for Republican candidates across Texas.<\/p>\n
The event featured several Republican candidates making their case to voters before Trump took the stage after hours of anticipation.<\/p>\n
Pastor Michael Fehlauer of New Life Church opened the rally with a prayer.<\/p>\n
“Means a lot for our city. It means a lot for our community. It means a lot for the state of Texas,” Fehlauer said.<\/p>\n
Multiple Republican candidates also addressed the crowd, including Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, Eric Flores and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.<\/p>\n
Patrick said, “And are we going to leave here today, with him having the confidence that we’re gonna stop communism, Marxism and socialism here in Texas?”<\/p>\n
The audience cheered in response.<\/p>\n
Flores highlighted the region’s water needs, saying, “The challenges are real. Families need water for generations to come.”<\/p>\n
Paxton also addressed the crowd, asking, “Would you agree that President Trump knows how to pack a crowd?”<\/p>\n
After hours of anticipation, Trump took the stage and discussed immigration policies, Venezuelan oil and gas prices.<\/p>\n
“Texas has produced more oil and gas than anytime in its history,” Trump said.<\/p>\n
Trump also criticized Democratic candidates and their policy agendas, focusing much of his remarks on Paxton and his Democratic opponent, James Talarico.<\/p>\n
Trump’s visit came as residents across the Coastal Bend continue to look for solutions to the region’s water needs. Although Trump previously promised to help Corpus Christi build a desalination plant, he did not mention the project during the rally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump returned to Corpus Christi for the second time in less than a year, holding a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-478973","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\/478973","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=478973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}