Texas Republicans ended a three-day convention on Saturday with votes on a series of proposed changes to their platform that would pull the party further to the right.
Why important: The revised platform is likely to preview some of the GOP’s messages for the November and 2024 midterm elections. It includes resolutions denying that President Biden legitimately won the 2020 election and a call to abortions.
The big picture: votes on the state’s revised GOP platform are currently being counted, the Texas Tribune reported.
- If approved, the party’s new platform would include declaring homosexuality “an abnormal lifestyle choice,” repealing the 16th amendment that created the federal income tax and forcing Texas students to “learn about humanity of the imprisoned child “, partly forcing the students. listen to ultrasounds of pregnant fetuses.
- During the convention, Texas Republicans passed a resolution stating that President Biden “was not legitimately elected,” according to the Tribune.
- Attendees also voted for a measure urging “lawmakers to enact legislation to abolish abortion immediately ensuring the right to life and equality of law for all premature children from the time of fertilization,” according to Newsweek.
- The platform also calls for the abolition of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, opposes efforts to classify carbon dioxide as a pollutant, and supports the prayer “return to our schools, courts and other buildings. government “.
Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas), who has been involved in bipartisan arms control negotiations, was booed by the crowd as he took to the stage to speak at the convention, with members of the audience shouting. not red flags “and” don’t do it “. we take up arms, “the Dallas Morning News reported.
- Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) and members of his staff were physically attacked at the convention, and the assailants said Crenshaw should be hanged and called him “McCain’s eye patch,” Politico reported. .
The Fort Worth chapter of Log Cabin Republicans, a national Republican LGBTQ organization, was excluded from the event after they were not allowed to set up a stand at the convention, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported.
- The group’s national chapter issued a statement on Thursday calling its exclusion “not only narrow-minded, but politically short-sighted.”