(Headline USA) The Texas GOP adopted a new platform over the weekend that rejects the 2020 presidential election results and declares that President Joe Biden was not legitimately elected.
The platform, which was adopted during the state GOP’s biennial convention, reflects the state party’s concerns that widespread vote fraud during the 2020 election has not been taken seriously. Secretaries of state nationwide “illegally circumvented” state legislatures by “conducting their elections” improperly, the platform argues.
“We reject the certified results of the 2020 Presidential election, and we hold that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States,” the party wrote.
“We strongly urge all Republicans to work to ensure election integrity and to show up to vote in November of 2022, bring your friends and family, volunteer for your local Republicans, and overwhelm any possible fraud.”
Texas conducted an audit of its election at the request of former President Donald Trump but did not find many discrepancies between the initial electronic count and hand recount. What discrepancies the audit did find would not have changed the election’s outcome in the state, the audit found.
Trump, however, argued the audit was necessary, telling Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in September 2021 that “your citizens don’t trust the election system.”
Several polls confirm that a wide swath of voters distrust the 2020 election’s results. In one survey from March 2021, for example, 31% of voters said they believe Trump won the 2020 election. A more recent survey conducted earlier this month found that that number of voters had risen to 40%.
The new Texas GOP platform also declares that homosexuality is an “abnormal state” and vows opposition to “all efforts to validate transgender identity.”
