Some 5,100 delegates and alternates voted on a party platform that also calls for ending the federal income tax, requiring education about fetal gestation and limiting the Legislature’s right to regulate guns.
HOUSTON — Meeting at their first in-person convention since 2018, Texas Republicans on Saturday acted on a raft of resolutions and proposed platform changes to move their party even further to the right. They approved measures declaring that President Joe Biden “was not legitimately elected” and rebuking Sen. John Cornyn for taking part in bipartisan gun talks. They also voted on a platform that declares homosexuality “an abnormal lifestyle choice” and calls for Texas schoolchildren “to learn about the humanity of the preborn child.”
The actions capped a convention that highlighted how adamantly opposed the party’s most active and vocal members are to compromising with Democrats or moderating on social positions, even as the state has grown more diverse and Republicans’ margins in statewide elections have shrunk slightly in recent years.
Votes on the platform were collected at the end of the party's three-day convention in which party activists moved to add multiple items to the official Texas GOP platform. As the convention closed, two separate sets of ballots — one allowing delegates to choose eight of 15 legislative priorities and another allowing delegates to vote on the 275 platform planks — were gathered. Those will now need to be tallied and certified in Austin, but it is rare for a plank to be rejected, according to party spokesperson James Wesolek.
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I knew the day after it was stolen. Nobody was listening to the whistleblowers that came forward with their stories of getting kicked out of the polling place, stacks of ballots under desks etc etc etc. Where were the Republicans then. Even Fox news would not mention it. I still have some of their stories on my computer. He will never be called President by me.
Shirley, we didn't need their stories, I saw videos of it happening but the gop establishment wanted President Trump out as much or more than the devildemocommiecrats did!!!!! The gop establishment is just as corrupt and want the new world order global dictatorship enacted!!!!!!!!!!
You are correct - we all knew it but the Republican Party - the party of soft and scared men - have refused to do anything about it. What a shame it has been and we are now the laughing stock of the world.
Edie, not soft and scared, COMPLICIT!!!!!!!!!!
The whole world knows the election was stolen and our Republicans just want to pretend that this could not happen to America we have nothing but spineless cowards Republicans to stand with us the true Americans
Lorenzo, they are not cowards, they are complicit TRAITORS!!!!!!!!!!
While I applaud the Texas Republicans; I don't believe there is anything that can be done when a President is elected fraudulently. But it does seem to be a step in the right direction.
Would have been very nice to address it before he was innaugrated. The DOJ was nowhere. Media, nowhere, RNC and Republicans, NOWHERE. They are all responsible for what is going on now including the murder of many citizens.
and how about the position of RPV??? Is Biden our President....
Marlene, not mine either!!!!!!!!!!
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