Tuesday, September 08, 2026

Back in “Big D”

Trump now claims “everybody” wants to attend his midterm convention in Dallas, but says he is only inviting a select group of candidates to speak.

The claim comes after a survey found 45 of 70+ Republican lawmakers and candidates contacted planned to skip the event, while a Washington Post analysis found at least seven GOP House candidates in battleground races have removed or downplayed Trump references on their campaign websites.
Will she be there? And does she think OBL is still alive? (This woman was at the event Trump spoke at in NYC. A decent POTUS would disavow her racism.) Granted, she is very Trumpy.
While I didn’t catch the entire broadcast last night, I did see this part and there’s a chance this is what Trump really didn’t like:

I've been to 100 of these things. I have to tell you, the energy in the room was really, really low. The place was not packed, the seats were full, but the back half of the convention center was empty. And I was going around talking to people, doing interviews, and usually at a Trump rally, you have to scratch kind of hard and ask four or 5 or 6 questions to get the people who were there to say anything sort of nuanced or, um, you know, truthful about how they really feel about something going on with him. On this one, it was like one question, how do you think it's going so far? And a lot of them were saying things like the economy's not as good as I thought it was going to be…. And these are people wearing t-shirts with pictures of his face.
Trump probably won’t be happy with the convention, either.

The theme is masculinity.
NEWS: MAGA activist Brilyn Hollyhand is now in Dallas, arriving one day after right wing organizer Scott Presler announced plans to head to the city.

In his announcement, Hollyhand targeted Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico by falsely portraying him as vegan, as prominent MAGA activists increasingly try to make masculinity and cultural identity part of the Texas Senate race.
NEWS: MAGA activists Scott Presler, Brilyn Hollyhand, and Benny Johnson will all be in Dallas this week for the Trump Midterm Convention, where they aim to make the U.S. Senate race in Texas a referendum on masculinity.
The former Texas Ranger is in the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame. He notified the FBI of Paxton’s corruption, and lost his job for his trouble. That frankly means a lot more to voters Talarico is trying to appeal to, than the ones he already appeals to. My point exactly. Funny thing. None of these speakers are from Texas. And yet this supposed to boost turnout in Texas? (Else why hold it here?) Texas is fairly parochial about its politics, especially when the highest office on the ballot is the U.S. Senator from Texas. Voters don’t tend to have much interest in what outsiders tell ‘em to do.

Abbott will certainly speak at some point. Paxton may (doubtful, though). But 8 speakers giving keynotes at a convention lasting only two days? How many speeches will there be by people nobody wants to hear from?

This is gonna be a joke.
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