(TEXAS TRIBUNE) - Attorney General Ken Paxton, speaking Monday at a tele-town hall, said the GOP will have a pre-midterm convention in Dallas this September, bringing President Donald Trump to Texas for a high-profile event ahead of the November election.

The Republican National Committee has publicly discussed plans to host a first-of-its-kind gathering for a midterm election year and explored Dallas as a host site.

The convention will gather GOP politicians and candidates months before the November election and place Texas - where Republican Paxton and Democrat James Talarico are locked in a competitive Senate race - at the center of the national conversation."I know that we are having the midterm convention in Dallas in September," Paxton said, according to CNN.