Why it matters: The revised platform is likely to preview some of the Republican Party’s messages for the November midterm and 2024 elections. It includes resolutions denying that President Biden legally won the 2020 election of abortions. The big picture: Votes for the state’s revised GOP platform are currently being counted, the Texas Tribune said.

If approved, the party’s new platform will include the declaration of homosexuality “an unusual way of life”, the repeal of the 16th amendment that created the federal income tax and the mandate for Texas students to “learn about the humanity of the unborn child.” , partly forcing students to listen to ultrasounds of pregnant fetuses. During the convention, Texas Republicans passed a resolution declaring that President Biden “was not legally elected,” according to the Tribune. Attendees also voted in favor of a measure urging “lawmakers to enact legislation to abolish abortion, ensuring immediate rights to life and equal promotion of the law for all preterm infants from the moment of fertilization,” according to Newsweek. The platform also calls for the repeal of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, opposes efforts to classify carbon dioxide as a pollutant, and supports the prayer “to be returned to schools, courts and other government buildings.”

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), who has been involved in bipartisan arms control talks, was applauded by the crowd as he took the stage to speak at the conference, with members shouting “no red flags” and “do not take up arms,” ​​the Dallas Morning News reported.

Spokesman Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) and members of his staff were physically assaulted at the conference, with perpetrators saying Crenshaw should be hanged and calling him a “McCain patch,” Politico reported.

The Fort Worth chapter of Log Cabin Republicans, a national Republican LGBTQ organization, was excluded from the event because they were not allowed to set up a booth at the conference, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported.

The group’s national team issued a statement on Thursday calling its exclusion “not just narrow-minded, but politically short-sighted”.