Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump spoke at a campaign rally in Chesapeake, Virginia on June 28.
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The Republican Party's 2024 election platform, titled “To America's Forgotten Men and Women,” reads like a transcript of one of Trump's rally speeches.
The Republican National Committee's Platform Committee has adopted former President Donald Trump's platform, a document that leans toward Trump's preferred “America First” stance and distances itself from the GOP's traditional social issue agenda.
The party platform begins with 20 pledges, many of which are borrowed from the former president's catchphrases, such as “stopping immigration” and the simple “end inflation.” The Trump campaign has sought to pare down the platform.
More recently, President Trump has sought to distance himself from Project 2025, a controversial (and lengthy) policy document put together by some of his allies.
Notably, the platform does not mention abortion at all, as Trump seeks to downplay the issue and appeal to swing voters. The only time the term appears in the entire platform is once, in a statement about the party's commitment to protecting “life issues.” There, it reads: “We oppose late-term abortion.”
After appointing Supreme Court justices who helped overturn the constitutional right to abortion, President Trump said the issue should now be left to states to decide.
Other social issues have also come up more frequently, such as pledges to limit federal funding to schools that teach so-called critical race theory and to “keep men out of women's sports.”
