The Texas Republican Party refused to recognize the legitimacy of President Biden’s election victory. Just before Biden’s inauguration in 2021, armed groups held a rally in front of the Texas State Capitol in Austin.
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The Texas Republican Party refused to recognize the legitimacy of President Biden’s election victory. Just before Biden’s inauguration in 2021, armed groups held a rally in front of the Texas State Capitol in Austin.
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President Biden is the “action” president because he didn’t legally win; Texans should vote on secession; The Voting Rights Act of 1965 should be repealed; every act of gun control is a violation of rights: this is the world seen by the Texas Republican Party, according to the newly adopted party platform.
“We cannot compromise with Democrats who have a different vision and are not aligned with our future,” said Matt Rinaldi, the state’s GOP president. Texas Newspaper Office. “We need to be a bold and unrepentant conservative party, ready to strike and win the fight for our country.”
Republican Party 2022 Platform Outlined in a 40 page document address issues of the state but also broader priorities – such as calling for the US to leave the United Nations. Delegates passed it over the weekend, at the party’s convention in Houston.
Texas GOP upholds ‘big lie’
By emphasizing that Biden didn’t really beat former President Trump in 2020, the Texas Republican party is dragging on lies and baseless claims about election fraud that prompted the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The Texas Republicans said in their new platform: “We believe the 2020 election violates Articles 1 and 2 of the United States Constitution. They accused several state secretaries of illegal actions, alleging that “substantial election fraud in key metropolitan areas” falsified results in Biden’s favor.
“We refute the certified results of the 2020 presidential election and we believe that Acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not lawfully elected by the people of the United States,” the GOP platform stated.
The pro-Trump stance sets the tone for midterm elections in November. It also shows how the Texas GOP will use Trump’s statements to get voters to go to the polls: The section on election fraud ends urged every Republican to vote to “overwhelm any possible fraud.”
Conference participants were shown ‘2,000 mules’
Film screening committee 2,000 mules at least three times, according to conference program.
The film was recently discussed during a committee hearing on January 6, when former Attorney General Bill Barr speak The film’s central premise, that electronic location data has proven that humans are used as “mule” to stuff ballot boxes, is “indisputable.”
2,000 mules directed by Dinesh D’Souza, who, in 2014, admitted to making illegal campaign contributions in the name of someone else – a form of electoral law cheat, in other words. The controversial activist is pardon of Trump in 2018. Former President hold a movie show in Florida last month.
GOP urges Texas to hold a referendum on secession
Saying the US government has undermined Texas’ right to self-government, the platform calls for the rejection of any law that conflicts with the state’s rights – and it suggests leaving the union could be the answer. .
“Texas retains the right to secede from the United States and the Texas Legislature should be called upon to pass a consistent referendum accordingly,” the platform states.
Further down in the document, GOP delegates called on state legislators to put the referendum on the agenda for the 2023 election, “for the people of Texans to determine whether the State of Texas should assert redefine its status as an independent nation.”
In Texas, secession is a perennial idea that tends to bloom when a Democrat holds the Oval Office. For example, after former President Obama won his first term, Governor Rick Perry suggestions that the Texans might consider leaving the union.
How close is the Party platform to loyalists?
It remains an open question how closely the priorities outlined in the 2022 platform reflect the views of regular Republicans in Texas.
One sign of potential divisions is in the reception of state politicians in Congress.
Rabble Senator John Cornyn booed, who is leading Republicans in the hunt for areas with a bipartisan agreement on guns. Another Texas Republican, Congressman Dan Crenshaw, faced off with far-right activists who mocked him by calling him “a blindfolded McCain” and a “traitor,” according to the report. Intermediary.
As Matthew Watkins, news and political management editor at the Texas Tribune, say via TwitterEmotions in the hall are not necessarily equivalent to the emotions of the voters.
“John Cornyn, booed in the hall, received 76% of the vote in his final primaries,” Watkins said. “Greg Abbott, who didn’t speak, got 67%. Ken Paxton, who received a standing ovation, got 43% in March.”
Hot topics include elections and guns
Not every plank in the platform has a lengthy explanation. For example, the section on the Voting Rights Act of 1965 – which the Department of Justice call “the most successful piece of civil rights legislation ever passed by Congress” – merely stating that the Texas GOP supports “equal voting rights for all U.S. citizens of voting age.”
The foundation then requested that the 1965 law and its updated forms be “repealed and not re-authorised.” The Voting Rights Act has returned as a focal point of contention over the past decade, as parties debate the fairness of elections – especially in areas with a history of discrimination or repression. voters of color.
The GOP has been more one-sided on guns, declaring that, “all gun control is a violation of the Second Amendment and our God has given the rights”.
Another division announced there would be no gun-free zones in Texas, a state that recently suffered one of the worst mass school shootings in US history. The party platform also speaks out against “red flag” laws and any attempt to ban people under the age of 21 from buying guns.
