{"id":667061,"date":"2026-09-11T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=667061"},"modified":"2026-09-11T22:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T22:25:00","slug":"trump-lays-out-republicans-post-midterms-agenda-at-dallas-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=667061","title":{"rendered":"Trump Lays Out Republicans&#8217; Post-Midterms Agenda At Dallas Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Trump Lays Out Republicans&#8217; Post-Midterms Agenda At Dallas Convention<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/trump-lays-out-republicans-post-midterms-agenda-at-dallas-convention-6086034?utm_source=partner&amp;utm_campaign=ZeroHedge\">Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times<\/a>,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>President Donald Trump on Thursday evening addressed a crowd in Dallas, touting his administration&#8217;s achievements on the closing night of the two-day midterm convention and asking voters to back Republican candidates in the upcoming elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/image%20-%202026-09-11T094224.060.jpg?itok=qwTzcmkF\" data-link-option=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/image%20-%202026-09-11T094224.060.jpg?itok=qwTzcmkF\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"b6819278-acf5-44e3-b431-ec42778a5273\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" height=\"333\" width=\"500\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/image%20-%202026-09-11T094224.060.jpg?itok=qwTzcmkF\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m seeing spirit like we haven&#8217;t seen in this country for a long time, long time,&#8221; <\/strong>Trump said. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;But it came back about a year and a half ago. We went through four years of embarrassment, hurt, harm, sickness, filth was bad, but now it&#8217;s good, and it&#8217;s going to soon be greater than ever before, better than ever before.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Trump laid out a flurry of proposals that he said Republicans would pursue in the coming two years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>First, Trump said that Republicans would make most-favored nation prescription drug discounts &#8220;permanent in law.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He also mentioned the &#8220;No Invasion of Our Country Act,&#8221; a proposed bill from the president to make it illegal for future presidents to &#8220;open the border again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;We don&#8217;t want any more invasions of our country,&#8221; <\/strong><\/em>Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>He also mentioned the related Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, which would require most Americans to present documented proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also vowed that with the help of Vice President JD Vance, <strong>&#8220;we will win the war on fraud,&#8221; <\/strong>and reiterated his past calls to end cash bail.<\/p>\n<p>The speech is the capstone to a two-day meeting of Republicans in Dallas for their party&#8217;s first-ever midterm convention, with Trump placed at the center of what has been dubbed a &#8220;Trump-a-Palooza&#8221; by Republican organizers.<\/p>\n<p>A flurry of key Republican-aligned policymakers, candidates, social media personalities, and political organizations have descended on the Texas metropolis, with a litany of additional events, candidate speeches, and organization activities also taking place across Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>During the speech, Trump highlighted stock market gains under his second term, his administration&#8217;s efforts to lower drug prices, decreases in immigration, and other topics.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;Less than two years ago, the American people gave us a mandate to save America, and in 19 months, I&#8217;ve delivered on every single promise I made, and I think I delivered on far more,&#8221; he said.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Trump delivered his speech on Thursday shortly after Vice President JD Vance addressed the convention.<\/p>\n<p>The president told the crowd near the beginning that he intended to speak less than he had the previous night, when he addressed the convention for more than two hours.<\/p>\n<p>During that earlier speech, Trump described his second term as &#8220;the greatest two years in the history of the presidency,&#8221; urging voters to support Republicans in the upcoming elections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/trump-promises-every-adult-citizen-in-the-us-5000-if-gop-secures-majority-in-congress-6085498?utm_source=partner&amp;utm_campaign=ZeroHedge\">promised<\/a> voters a $5,000 dividend to every adult citizen if Republicans keep control of the Senate and House this November. Previously, the president had floated a $2,000 check stemming from tariff dividends.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After his administration faced questions about how it will actually carry out the proposal, Trump reiterated the promise during the second night.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;If we win the midterms, we will &#8230; provide a let&#8217;s call it Trump dividend: $5,000 for every adult citizen in our country,&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to The Epoch Times at the convention ahead of Trump&#8217;s speech, Republican attendees <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/gop-convention-goers-urge-party-to-highlight-economic-gains-under-trump-6085788?utm_source=partner&amp;utm_campaign=ZeroHedge\">criticized<\/a> Democrats for what they called the democratic socialist pitch of &#8220;free things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sisters Beth Mills of Shawnee, Oklahoma, and Colleen Robishaw of Arlington, Texas, told The Epoch Times that Republicans should tell people that nothing is free: Higher taxes would be needed to pay for free programs, and the government would exert more control over people&#8217;s lives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I think you need to look at the cost, the overall cost of what free things are. It was never free,&#8221; Mills said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nationwide, Republicans are facing difficult polling numbers across a variety of races.<\/p>\n<p>Trump sits at 39.6 percent approval on RealClearPolling, compared with 57.1 percent who say they disapprove.<\/p>\n<p>Following a handful of victories for candidates from the Democrats&#8217; rising <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/article\/democrats-split-on-partys-future-as-democratic-socialists-make-key-primary-wins-6075179?utm_source=partner&amp;utm_campaign=ZeroHedge\">democratic socialist<\/a> wing in largely blue-district races, Republicans have criticized the party as shifting too far left for the average American.<\/p>\n<p>According to polling by Pew Research in July, Americans&#8217; top concern at present is the economy, and by a wide margin. That poll found that economic issues were the driving political force this cycle for 29 percent of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has described affordability, a key plank of his 2024 presidential campaign, as a &#8220;Democrat hoax.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The president doubled down on this position during his remarks on the convention&#8217;s first night, calling affordability a &#8220;fake&#8221; issue, saying &#8220;I&#8217;m bringing the prices way down.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The most recent Consumer Price Index report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that annual inflation in the U.S. currently sits at 3.4 percent for all items. That includes a roughly 25 percent increase in the cost of gasoline over the past year &#8211; especially after the Iran conflict started in late February and disrupted the global oil supply chain &#8211; while inflation on food items sits around 3 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Some voters, meanwhile, told The Epoch Times that they don&#8217;t understand the fuss about affordability.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s funny with the economy because, like, you know, under [President Joe] Biden it really wasn&#8217;t even talked about at all, and then Trump gets [in], and all of a sudden everyone&#8217;s talking about affordability,&#8221; <\/strong>convention attendee Rodney Stokes of Fort Worth, Texas, told The Epoch Times.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The second key motivating issue for Americans, according to Pew Research, is government ethics and reform, with 9 percent labeling this a top priority.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 7 percent of Americans described immigration as a top issue for them. Healthcare, foreign policy, and Trump each polled at around 5 percent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" lang=\"\" class=\"username\" xml:lang=\"\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Fri, 09\/11\/2026 &#8211; 18:25<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/image%20-%202026-09-11T094224.060.jpg?itok=qwTzcmkF\" title=\"Trump Lays Out Republicans&apos; Post-Midterms Agenda At Dallas Convention\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Lays Out Republicans&#8217; Post-Midterms Agenda At Dallas Convention Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump on Thursday evening addressed a crowd in Dallas, touting his administration&#8217;s achievements on the closing night of the two-day midterm convention and asking voters to back Republican candidates in the upcoming elections. &#8220;I&#8217;m seeing spirit&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=667061\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump Lays Out Republicans&#8217; Post-Midterms Agenda At Dallas Convention<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":667062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=667061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/667062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=667061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=667061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=667061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}