Trump Rallies in Corpus Christi and Lubbock Tuesday; Talarico Lands in Lubbock the Same Night
President Donald Trump will rally in Corpus Christi at 2 p.m. and in Lubbock at 6 p.m. on Tuesday — and Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico will close his own West Texas swing with a 7 p.m. rally in Lubbock the same night, in a Senate race the latest Fox News poll shows tied at 49-49.
President Donald Trump will hold two Texas midterm rallies on Tuesday, October 27, the Trump 47 Committee announced. He starts in Corpus Christi, where doors open at 10:30 a.m., the program begins at 12:30 p.m. and his remarks begin at 2 p.m.; the committee has not announced the Corpus Christi venue. He ends the day in Lubbock at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center, 1501 Mac Davis Lane, where doors open at 2:30 p.m., the event starts at 4:30 p.m. and Trump speaks at 6 p.m., according to the committee's announcement reported by FOX 4 News.
Tuesday's map is not the one first announced. Trump was originally scheduled to rally in Waco that evening; KVUE reported the Waco visit was canceled, according to the office of U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions, and an event page from the Republican National Committee instead put Corpus Christi on the day's schedule alongside Lubbock, USA Today reported. The Texas swing is the middle stop of the president's final full week before the November 3 midterms — Mississippi on Monday, Texas on Tuesday and Ohio on Wednesday.
Lubbock will hear from both Senate campaigns the same night. Democratic candidate James Talarico's campaign released a three-city West Texas and Panhandle itinerary for Tuesday: a noon meet-and-greet in Midland, a 2:30 p.m. event in Amarillo, and a 7 p.m. rally in Lubbock, an hour after Trump is scheduled to speak across town. Republican nominee Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, is running his own 'Come and Take It' tour this week, with stops in Amarillo on Monday, Abilene on Wednesday, Beaumont on Thursday, Houston on Friday and Fort Worth on Saturday, October 31.
The race they are fighting over is effectively tied. A Fox News poll released October 21 showed Talarico and Paxton at 49 percent each among likely Texas voters, a drop from Talarico's 51-49 lead in Fox News' previous poll, and the other October polls USA Today listed — from the University of Houston, Marist, the UT Texas Politics Project and others — all put the race within a few points. Early voting in Texas runs through Friday, October 30, and Election Day is Tuesday, November 3.
