Tag Archives: GOP Platform

The New Republic reports: Ex–Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis is part of a chorus of conservative Christian Republicans who are not happy with the GOP, after it abandoned its push for a federal ban on abortion in favor of Donald Trump’s pitch to toss the decision back to the states. “The RNC is trading Lila Rose for Amber Rose. Pro-life for …

Politico reports: Former Vice President Mike Pence slammed the updated Republican National Committee platform Tuesday after GOP leaders abandoned explicitly endorsing a national abortion ban. “The RNC platform is a profound disappointment to the millions of pro-life Republicans that have always looked to the Republican Party to stand for life,” Pence said in a statement through his advocacy group Advancing …

Posted to the Family Research Council’s website: Unlike past years, when the media was welcome in the proceedings, “there’s kind of this cone of silence,” Perkins warned. Not only were the 112 delegates ordered to leave their cell phones outside the room, but none of the participants had access to the proposed platform language in advance. “That’s not the way …

The Meidas Touch reports: The new Trump-controlled RNC rolled out their party platform today for the 2024 elections, and it left many lifelong party activists furious. Anti-Abortion activists took to social media today to express frustrations. The Trump party platform opposes a federal abortion ban, and simply states that the Republican Party opposes late-term abortions and leaves the rest up …

The Washington Post reports: The 2024 Republican convention platform that aides to Donald Trump have drafted stops short of explicitly calling for a constitutional amendment to give embryos or fetuses constitutional rights and does not call for any national bans on abortion, confirming the concerns of antiabortion activists. The document, with a long introduction in the voice of Trump, the …

The Washington Post reports: Top advisers to Donald Trump have begun to discuss draft language for the 2024 Republican platform that antiabortion leaders expect will abandon the party’s decades-long call to amend the U.S. Constitution to extend personhood protections to the unborn. The escalating behind-the-scenes disagreement over the abortion language has become so tense and acrimonious in recent weeks that …

Via press release from Christian Newswire: Family Research Council Action Chairman Tony Perkins, who is an elected member of the Republican National Committee (RNC) Platform Committee from Louisiana, is announcing, in conjunction with scores of other conservative groups, the launch of the Platform Integrity Project. This coalition seeks to work with the RNC and the Trump campaign for an open …

ABC News reports: Donald Trump’s top advisers are planning to overhaul and shorten the Republican Party’s platform so that it will be “in line” with the former president’s “vision for America’s future,” according to a memo sent to the party’s platform committee that was obtained by ABC News. The memo comes as some more socially conservative RNC members — along …