Different from 2016, it will show a party in lockstep with the former president.
Balloons drop after Donald Trump accepts the GOP nomination to be President of the United States at the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio on July 21, 2016.The GOP's first new platform since 2016 will also be the first truly defined by former President Donald Trump, Republicans who have served on the platform committee say.
"I think the dynamic between then and now is totally different," said Tom Schreibel, the Wisconsin Republican Party national committeeman and a platform subcommittee chair in 2016. "The Trump campaign took the explicit and well-circulated position that they were going to be very light-handed in terms of fashioning the 2016 platform," said Bopp, "and leave it to the platform committee and the delegates to do that."positions out of step with the former president. On LGBTQ+ issues, it veered to Trump's right, affirming a definition of marriage as strictly a union between a man and a woman, something fought for by religious conservatives.
"If you have 50 states, and we're averaging 70% of every state party, every county party being pro-Trump in such a way, you're going to see this in the makeup of those who are delegates," said Law, who serves as chairman of the Republican Party in Clark County, Nevada. Schreibel pointed to a similar dynamic in the congressional considerations that influence the platform, noting that "issues within the House and Senate on X, Y or Z are turned by President Trump and his ideals."
People protest in response to the Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24, 2022 in Washington, DC.As recently as a year ago, Trump -- who appointed the conservative justices that enabled the overturning of Roe -- eagerly took credit for the decision, writing in a post on Truth social, "I was able to kill Roe v. Wade.
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