DALLAS - Democratic Gov.JB Pritzker of Illinois is urging voters to ignore the Republicans' first-ever midterm convention."Voters can see through the BS that Republicans are spewing," Pritzker told reporters at a Democratic National Committee-hosted counter programming news conference across the street from the American Airlines Center in Dallas, the site of this week’s first-ever Republican midterm convention.With less than two months until the midterm elections — and early voting just weeks away — President Donald Trump and the GOP kicked off their convention on Wednesday as Republicans fight to keep control of Congress.The GOP's playbook for the convention, which comes as Republicans face energized Democrats and political headwinds as they defend their slim House and Senate majorities, is to motivate the party's base and boost turnout in key races that will determine control of Congress.GOP MIDTERM CONVENTION: CAN THE 'BEST SHOWMAN IN POLITICS' DELIVER AGAIN?The American Airlines Center in Dallas, hours ahead of the start of the GOP midterm convention, on Sept.
9, 2026.(Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)"We are putting the president on the ballot," Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Joe Gruters emphasized in a Fox News Digital interview on the eve of the gathering.
"That's exactly what we're doing with this midterm convention."But Pritzker, a potential 2028 White House contender, blasted the two-day GOP confab."This bizarre Republican midterm convention here can't paper over the fact that Republicans have done nothing to earn your vote.Donald Trump is hoping that a flashy primetime event will make you forget that, well, his trade war is killing costs for families at the grocery store.
His war in Iran is killing ranchers and farmers and their way of life, and his war on people, on the working people, the working families of this country are raising the costs of health care and housing."FIRST ON FOX: WHO'S SPEAKING - AND WHEN - AT THE GOP'S HISTORIC MIDTERM...