WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans in Texas formally rejected the election of President Joe Biden in 2020 as illegitimate and voted in a nationwide convention that ended this weekend on a party platform that called homosexuality an “abnormal lifestyle choice.”
The party’s embrace of baseless allegations of electoral fraud in a founding Republican state came as a bipartisan congressional committee sought to definitively and publicly debunk the false idea that Biden had not won the election.
Biden received 7 million more votes than his rival Donald Trump. Biden also received 306 votes from the Electoral College, more than 270 needed to win.
A congressional committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol is building a case in which Trump’s efforts to undo his defeat in the 2020 presidential election – including by denying losing – are tantamount to a conspiracy to illegally retention of power.
Trump, the 45th president of the United States, has denied any wrongdoing.
“We reject the certified results of the 2020 presidential election and believe that Acting President Joseph Robinet Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States,” the Texas party’s resolution said in a vote. his convention.
Texas is a major player in US national politics with 38 electoral votes, the second highest after California. Voters there have backed Republican presidents for the past four decades.
The White House has no comment.
According to a recent Reuters / Ipsos poll, about two-thirds of Republicans believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen by Trump. State and federal judges rejected more than 50 lawsuits filed by Trump and his allies challenging the election, while reviews and audits found evidence of widespread fraud.
THE PLATFORM ATTACKS THE “CHOICE” OF HOMOSEXUALITY
One of the principles proposed in the Republican Party’s newest platform in Texas also includes a new language that criticizes homosexuality and opposes “all efforts to validate transgender identity.”
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“Homosexuality is an unusual way of life,” said a statement that is not on the 2020 platform https://texasgop.org/platform.
Votes for the provision are being counted and certified after the state’s two-year convention, a party spokesman said.
Houston Republicans, representing LGBT conservatives, said they had once again refused a request to set up a stand at the party’s congress this week, as had previous conventions. The group called the actions of the Texas Republican Convention “not just narrow-minded, but also politically short-sighted.”
However, the group sees no “evidence” of other state republican conventions accepting similar bans or exclusionary language, Charles Moran, managing director of Log Cabin Republican, told Reuters.
“If anything, we are more involved” than in the past, he said, noting that the Republican presidential campaign in 2020 had an official coalition of pride, and the voice of gay Republicans doubled between 2016 and 2020. President Trump he was the most pro-gay Republican we’ve ever had, “he added.
(Report by Phil Stewart; edits by Heather Timmons and Lisa Shoemaker)
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