The GOP will “enthusiastically support the President’s America-first agenda.”
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The Republican Party said Sunday it will not adopt a new party platform during the Republican National Convention this week, but instead will “reassert the Party’s strong support for President Donald Trump and his Administration.”
In a brief document, the GOP said it unanimously decided to abandon the traditional process in which parties adopt policy goals their candidates will run on.
“The RNC has unanimously voted to forego the Convention Committee on Platform, in appreciation of the fact that it did not want a small contingent of delegates formulating a new platform without the breadth of perspectives within the ever-growing Republican movement,” the party wrote. “All platforms are snapshots of the historical contexts in which they are born, and parties abide by their policy priorities, rather than their political rhetoric.”
The document continues: “The Republican Party has and will continue to enthusiastically support the President’s America-first agenda.”
The remarkable decision comes after the RNC’s executive committee initially voted in June to simply adopt the 2016 Republican platform and wait until 2024 to draft a new one. Trump waded into that vote days later, saying he preferred a “new and updated Platform” in “short form, if possible.” |
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| WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING | A hearing before the House Oversight Committee got tense Monday as Democrats pushed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on recent changes he’s made to the U.S. Postal Service ― and how those changes could benefit President Donald Trump ahead of the presidential election. | |
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Jerry Falwell Jr. has permanently left his position as president of the evangelical Liberty University after reports about his sex life led him to take an indefinite leave of absence. | |
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The Republican National Convention is set to begin this week, on the heels of Democrats’ convention in which they nominated former Vice President Joe Biden to be their party’s presidential candidate. Similar to the Democratic National Convention, the RNC will conduct most of its events and speeches virtually and remotely, with the exception of convention business in the host city of Charlotte, North Carolina | |
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Join HuffPost Washington Bureau Chief Amanda Terkel and senior politics reporters Shirish Dáte and Kevin Robillard, in conversation with Executive Editor Hillary Frey, Friday, Aug. 28 at 1:00 pm, as they look back at what happened at the 2020 Democratic and Republican conventions, and what to expect between now and November. |
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