The Republican Party of Texas has adopted a new platform declaring that the 2020 election violates the Constitution and that President Biden “was not legitimately elected.”
The Texas Republican Party adopted the 40-page platform at its two-year convention in Houston, which ended this weekend.
“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 platform said.
James Wesolek, director of communications for the Republican Party in Texas, told The Hill that the resolution was adopted by a vote.
The platform claims that “significant election fraud in key urban areas” has affected the results in five states, changing the election in Biden’s favor.
The party also claims that various secretaries of state, who serve as senior election officials in many states, “illegally circumvent” state legislatures by committing constitutional violations.
“We urge all Republicans to work to ensure the integrity of the election and to stand to vote in November 2022, to bring friends and family, to volunteer for local Republicans and to overcome all possible fraud,” he said. says in the platform.
There is no evidence of widespread electoral fraud in the 2020 election, and a coalition of leading federal and state officials said the race was the “safest” election in American history.
Several censuses and audits have also confirmed that former President Trump has lost several key states, but Trump has repeatedly made public unfounded allegations of voter fraud.
The passage of the platform comes amid a series of public hearings conducted by an elected House of Representatives committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.
The panel tried to link Trump’s allegations of voter fraud to the riot, which disrupted the vote count. At its second hearing, the commission testified that many members of Trump’s inner circle did not believe he had won the election.
Republicans in state governments across the country have called for legislation to restrict access to the ballot after the 2020 race, as Trump-backed candidates still say widespread fraud has marred the election.
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A district commission led by Republicans in rural New Mexico refused to validate the results of last week’s primary election without raising specific concerns about inconsistencies, prompting the New Mexico Supreme Court to intervene at the request of the Democratic Secretary of State. party of new mexico.
More than a third of Americans – 38 percent – said they believe Biden did not legally win the 2020 election, according to a poll by The Economist and YouGov earlier this month.
The platform of the new Republican Party of Texas also includes sections declaring homosexuality “abnormal” and opposing “all efforts to validate transgender identity.”
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