Trump & Co. may seem like they are VERY different that Biden and other past Paresident’s….
They aren’t…..
While the ex-President HAS used his parties RightWingNuts to help him ?
THAT IS NOT the case heading for election NOW….
Donald Trump IS heading back to a place he has been comfortable with his whole life….
The Middle….
As a New York Real Estate guy he belonbged to the Democratic Party TWICE….
It just depended which way the political wind blew….
Right Now?
Though the ex-President leans to the Rigfht on the Border?
He also is dead set against limiting contraception….
He’s wishy/washy on how strict abortion should be….
And he’s NOT interested in making same-sex marriage a headline issue…..
Trump’s people will be writing the Republican parties convention policy points and the choices of people to lead the seprate groups are being hand picked to exclude the RightWingNuts that would propose ripe targets for the Democrats to campaign against….
Donald Trump’s allies are quietly getting involved in little-noticed fights over who will serve on the committee to set the Republican Party’s national platform.
NBC News spoke with nine people familiar with what’s happening in states across the country, including Arizona, South Carolina, Kansas and Iowa, among others, who said that the campaign’s involvement is intended to stop those on the party’s right flank from trying to push the official Republican National Committee platform too far to the right on issues like abortion and same-sex marriage headed into the general election.
A Trump campaign official acknowledged to NBC News that there are conversations throughout the party about culture war-infused policies and that they have been watching and engaged in some state-level races for spots on the RNC’s Platform Committee, which is the body that will play a significant role in shaping platform changes.
The official also noted that it’s not unusual for people most closely aligned with the president to get key convention roles.
“I know there are probably some people upset at us, but these positions are generally set aside for those who have been helpful to the president,” said the official. “That includes this kind of stuff.”
The current platform is a 66-page document that outlines the Republican National Committee’s position on dozens of issues, including abortion, marriage, police reform, the Federal Reserve, technology and the environment. The platform committee consists of one man and one woman from every U.S. state and territory.
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Now, some of the platform fights that could have played out in 2020 are spilling over into the 2024 election cycle.
“They are definitely worried about who is getting on those committees,” said Shiree Verdone, who served as co-chair of Trump’s campaign in Arizona in 2016 and 2020. “Trying to get normal folks on the platform and Rules [committees], but God knows if there’s any normal people in that delegation.”….
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There is a sense among some party leaders that Trump’s team wants to make sure that the people who make it onto the platform committee don’t come up with a platform that could be viewed as too extreme in a general election on issues like the definition of marriage and abortion, with the latter having taken on defining political influence after the Supreme Court — helped by three conservative Trump picks — overturned Roe v. Wade….
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As abortion has become a dominant electoral issue since the overturning of Roe in 2022, the issue has left Trump trying to balance pleasing social conservatives who have long pushed for strict federal abortion bans, and the fact that access to abortion remains popular with the broader electorate. An NBC News poll last year found that 60% of voters disapproved of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
In recent interviews, Trump has used a blanket comment to respond to abortion questions, saying that it should be up to individual states to determine abortion policy.
That answer often does not placate the more socially conservative factions of the party, including former Vice President Mike Pence, and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, who is considered by some to be on the shortlist to serve as Trump’s running mate in 2024.
“You don’t need a federal ban,” Trump told Time magazine during an April interview. “Roe v. Wade … wasn’t about abortion as much as bringing it back to the states. So the states should negotiate deals.”