DALLAS — Attendees, candidates, and party operatives poured into 95-degree Fahrenheit heat for the first-ever GOP midterm convention, bringing with them high energy and a clear focus on President Donald Trump.

In the days leading up to the party’s first midterm convention, many political experts and members of the press billed it as a Trump lovefest — and among the attendees interviewed by the Washington Examiner, it lived up to that description.