The latest Texas GOP party platform calls to “abolish abortion,” attacks homosexuality as an “abnormal lifestyle choice,” and formally rejects Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.
The GOP has never exactly been a big tent party. But it used to try to convince voters it was — and occasionally even aspired to be one, at least for the sake of its own survival. “It is time to smartly change course, modernize the Party, and learn once again how to appeal to more people, including those who share some but not all of our conservative principles,” the Republican National Committee wrote in an’s loss in the 2012 election.
During the three-day event, Texas Republicans administered a right-wing purity test that even some of the most conservative lawmakers in Washington could not pass: Cornyn faced jeers for taking part in gun control talks with Democrats, even as he bragged that he had used his seat at the negotiating table to scuttle Biden’s “gun-grabbing wish list.” Republican Congressman
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