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WASHINGTON When Republicans read the platform their party is using for the 2020 campaign, they may be surprised to see that it is full of condemnations of the sitting president.
The survival of the internet as we know it is at risk, the platform reads. Its gravest peril originates in the White House, the current occupant of which has launched a campaign, both at home and internationally, to subjugate it to agents of government.
The warning about speech online is one of more than three dozen unflattering references to either the current president, current chief executive, current administration, people currently in control of policy, or the current occupant of the White House that appear in the Republican platform. Adopted at the partys 2016 convention, it has been carried over through 2024 after the executive committee of the Republican National Committee on Wednesday chose not to adopt a new platform for 2020.
The platform censures the current president who in 2016 was, of course, Barack Obama and his administration for, among other things, imposing a social and cultural revolution, causing a huge increase in the national debt and damaging relationships with international partners.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/us/politics/republican-platform.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes
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Last month, reports indicated that President Donald Trumps son-in-law Jared Kushner was leading the effort to update the GOP platform, and wanted to make a number of changes including stripping out anti-LGBTQ language and using less alienating language. All of these efforts are apparently moot now that Republicans plan to keep their existing platform.