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The GOP Midterm Convention Is the Campiest Apocalypse I've Ever Seen

Inside the first event of its kind, where the end of the world is coming, but the sequins are fabulous.

Billy Binion | 9.10.2026 4:40 PM

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DALLAS—A couple of things are clear from the outset of the first-ever GOP midterm convention. For one: If Republicans lose in November, the world as we know it will end. For two: The party plans to go down looking fabulous.

Not the Republican Party—what, with members' standard blue blazers and red power ties?—but the party in downtown Dallas, here at the American Airlines Center, where many of President Donald Trump's MAGA faithfuls convened this week in anticipation of the midterm elections. There were sparkles and sequins and Trump jerseys and at least one man dressed as the U.S.–Mexico border wall, all while attendees mulled what would happen if Democrats reclaimed a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, which they are largely expected to do.

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