DALLAS — Eight days before Republicans gather in Dallas for the party's first-ever midterm convention, the storyline this outlet has tracked since mid-August just got more complicated. Marco Rubio's confirmation as a headline Sept. 9 speaker doesn't fill the "no Latino Republican" gap our earlier coverage flagged — it erases it, since Rubio himself is the highest-ranking Hispanic official in American history. Meanwhile, the city finalized its street-closure map, a left-leaning protest coalition nailed down a march route and start time, and Republican lawmakers are grumbling over a five-figure ask to attend their own party's celebration.
