Trump may be stuck with awkwardly worded GOP platform
President Donald Trump said Friday he wants “a new and updated” Republican Party platform after the Republican National Committee voted this week to carry over the 2016 document.
But Trump may be stuck with the old platform, which is peppered with jeremiads about the “current administration” that were originally written about President Barack Obama.
The trouble began with a fight between Trump and North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper over coronavirus restrictions in Charlotte, the host city for the Republican National Convention. Cooper, a Democrat, rejected Trump’s demand to hold the convention without social distancing measures, so Republicans decided to move the renomination acceptance speech to Jacksonville, Florida.
RNC rules dictated that because the party’s business could not be carried out within the original convention site or the original convention city, only a roll call vote for nominating the president or vice president was allowed.
In such a situation, the old platform carries over, according to a senior Trump campaign official who was not authorized to comment and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
That means the 2016 platform, which includes plenty of cutting jabs meant for another president, might have to stand. It slams the administration over its handling of a broad range of issues, including its Middle East policy, a reliance on executive orders and a ballooning national debt.
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