Trump heads to San Antonio for race deemed the ‘whole enchilada’ in the 2026 midterms – San Antonio Report

Trump heads to San Antonio for race deemed the ‘whole enchilada’ in the 2026 midterms  San Antonio Report

He'll appear at the Freeman Coliseum with Republican Carlos De La Cruz, who is running in the newly redrawn 35th Congressional District. President Donald Trump will campaign in a brand-new San Antonio-area congressional district that could hold the keys to the U.S. House majority in 2026. He’ll appear Wednesday at the Freeman Coliseum with Republican Carlos De La Cruz, the GOP nominee in Texas’ 35th Congressional District, according to the Republican National Committee. The district was drawn to help the GOP squeeze another Republican seat out of Texas, and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) deemed it the “whole enchilada” this midterm election. The battle for the U.S. House runs through South Texas.

Here’s a cheat sheet to the races. The GOP’s razor-thin House majority is so precarious this cycle that Trump urged Texas to redraw its congressional districts to try to keep it. Now battle for the U.S. House runs straight through San Antonio and South Texas, where millions of dollars are flowing to five key congressional races where voters swung hard toward Trump in 2024. Under the new maps, each of the five redrawn districts would have supported Trump by 10 to 18 points in 2024. Yet neither party considers them safely red in an election where Democrats across the country are polling about 8 points ahead on the