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Renaming the renaming
Barely two years after the Pentagon stripped the names of Confederate soldiers from the biggest military bases in America – including in Texas – former President Donald Trump is talking about restoring them if he wins in November.
During a campaign stop on Oct. 4 in North Carolina near Fort Liberty, which previously was Fort Bragg, Trump was showered with applause when he talked about changing the name back.
"So here's what we do. We get elected. I'm doing it," Trump said about reverting back to Fort Bragg. "We're going to do everything we can. We're going to get it back. We're going to bring our country back."
Fort Bragg in North Carolina and Fort Hood in Texas were among the bases that were renamed in 2023 over Trump's objections. Fort Hood was renamed after Gen. Richard Cavazos, a Texas-born war veteran who was the first Latino four-star general and the first Latino brigadier general in U.S. history.
Trump hasn't said he specifically wants Fort Cavazos reverted back to Fort Hood along with Fort Bragg, but he fought efforts to rename both bases when he was in office. In 2020, he initially vetoed the bill to rename them but was overridden by Congress.
The bases ultimately were renamed with President Joe Biden in the White House. Democrats said they would fight any attempt by Trump to roll back the renaming efforts.
"We absolutely will fight it," U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Houston, said if Trump tries to remove Cavazos's name from the base. "It took us so long to have a base named after a Latino."
But it's not just Democrats. Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., who helped pass the renaming legislation, told Politico that the bases have already been renamed and they are not going backward.
The base near Killeen used to be named for John Bell Hood, a Kentucky native and Confederate general. Fort Bragg was named after Braxton Bragg, another Confederate general who died after the Civil War in Galveston.
 | Jeremy Wallace, Texas politics reporter |
Who's up, who's down
Up: Cory Booker.
The U.S. Senator from New Jersey was in Houston on Sunday trying to fire up Democrat volunteers for the stretch run of the campaign. Booker said he's mostly going to swing states but sees a real chance for Democrat Colin Allred to defeat U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz on Nov. 5. "I desperately want him to be my colleague," Booker said of Allred.
Down: Mitch McConnell.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz didn't pull any punches as he blasted the Senate Republican Leader of Kentucky for not doing more to help his campaign. On Fox News, Cruz said he's being outspent by Allred and national Democrats, yet a Super PAC McConnell controls hasn't spent a penny to help him. "We are in the middle of a full-on battle," Cruz said.
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