President Trump is turning the final week of the midterm campaign into a Texas football showcase, bringing three of the state’s most recognizable former stars into a two-rally sprint through Corpus Christi and Lubbock.
Johnny Manziel, Colt McCoy, and Danny Amendola are expected to join the president Tuesday as Republicans work to turn Trump-sized enthusiasm into actual midterm ballots.
The day’s schedule pairs a Corpus Christi stop with an evening rally in Lubbock:
The official Trump 47 Committee event page schedules President Trump’s Lubbock remarks for 6 p.m. Central at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center, with doors opening at 2:30 p.m. The listing identifies it as a midterm rally featuring President Trump.
Earlier in the day, Trump is scheduled to appear at the Port of Corpus Christi. The two stops give the president a Gulf Coast stage and a West Texas finish in the same campaign day.
The football lineup is pure Texas. Manziel became a national phenomenon at Texas A&M and won the 2012 Heisman Trophy.
McCoy starred at the University of Texas before a long NFL career. Amendola played at Texas Tech and later won two Super Bowls with New England.
A football-news account broke down the unusual campaign roster for its own large audience:
The San Antonio Express-News confirms that all three former players are slated to appear with Trump in both Lubbock and Corpus Christi. Its report places the rallies exactly one week before Election Day, with the Corpus Christi program at the port and the West Texas event at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center.
The local report says doors for Corpus Christi open at 10:30 a.m. and Trump’s remarks are scheduled for 2 p.m. In Lubbock, doors open at 2:30 p.m. ahead of the president’s 6 p.m. appearance.
The celebrity lineup carries a deliberate turnout logic. Each man connects Trump to a different pillar of Texas football culture: the Aggies, the Longhorns, and the Red Raiders.
Manziel is a Hill Country native who became the first freshman to win the Heisman. McCoy left Texas as one of college football’s winningest quarterbacks, while Amendola’s Texas Tech roots and two Super Bowl rings give the Lubbock stop its own hometown connection.
The strategy also targets a constituency that helped power Trump’s 2024 victory: young men who may admire the president but are less reliable about voting when his own name is not on the ballot.
Axios reports that the campaign sees football as a natural bridge to those voters. One Trump adviser described football as one of the president’s many bases and said the response to his recent sports-heavy appearances has been strong.
Trump has been leaning into that connection throughout the closing stretch. He appeared at the Texas-Tennessee game in Knoxville, met Baltimore Ravens players during a Maryland stop, and brought former NFL coach Jon Gruden and former Georgia star Todd Gurley into other campaign events.
Republicans are also spending millions on ads during NFL and college football games, making the outreach broader than a single rally lineup.
A Texas television journalist highlighted both the football names and the campaign’s turnout objective:
President Trump returns to Texas Tuesday to help boost Republicans for the midterms.
Axios is reporting that former college football stars Johnny Manziel and Colt McCoy, along with two-time Super Bowl champion Danny Amendola, will join Trump for his stops in Lubbock and… pic.twitter.com/5S3dRocXcX
— Rusty Surette (@RustySuretteTV) October 26, 2026
The stakes extend beyond rally optics. Republicans are defending their hold on Texas offices while trying to preserve congressional power nationally, and the president is spending precious final-week time in a state Democrats have targeted for years.
The Lubbock event is expected to support Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton, while Vice President JD Vance is scheduled for his own Texas campaign appearance later in the week.
RSBN is carrying live coverage of the Texas rallies, including pre-program speakers, crowd interviews, and the president’s remarks. Its coverage gives supporters outside the venues a direct view of whether the football play translates into the kind of atmosphere Trump’s campaign wants.
The network’s event listing begins coverage before Trump takes the stage, preserving the part of a rally that television packages often miss: the size of the line, the energy in the room, and the response when local candidates and surrogates make their pitches.
The contrast is difficult to miss: Democrats keep looking for a formula to peel away young male voters, while Trump is walking onto the field with a Heisman winner, a Longhorn legend, and a two-time Super Bowl champion.
The campaign is betting that familiar Texas sports heroes can turn a political event into something younger and less habitual voters actually want to watch—and then convert that attention into ballots.
It is a campaign play built for Texas—part politics, part football, and unmistakably Trump.
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