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Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday praised Texas Republicans for adopting a party platform over the weekend that rejected the results of the 2020 presidential election – a platform that also characterized homosexuality as “abnormal” and called for a vote on the state’s secession from the union.
“Look at the Great State of Texas and their powerful Republican Party Platform on the 2020 Presidential Election Fraud,” Trump wrote on his social media platform. “After much research and study, they disavow the national result for President.”
The state GOP adopted into its platform the claim that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump in a voice vote during a statewide convention over the weekend.
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“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 resolution says.
The plank was presented among others in the party’s platform that, if finalized, would move the Republican Party of the second most populous state further to the right, like one calling for the abolition of abortion and another calling for the repeal of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that prohibits discriminatory voting practices.
Trump celebrated Texas for its courage, saying “they know that a Country cannot survive without Free and Fair Elections.”
The comments come after Trump on Friday delivered a keynote address at the Faith and Freedom Coalition in Tennessee where he dangled the prospect of pardoning those who stormed and damaged the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, while trashing fellow Republicans who he accused of being weak and fearful for not helping him overturn the election.
Trump also denied testimony from witnesses during a hearing of the House committee looking into the attacks who said Trump called the former vice president a “wimp,” among other choice words, for certifying the election despite Trump’s pleas.
Pence took center stage during Thursday’s hearing, where the Jan. 6 committee used live testimony and taped interviews to dismantle the legal theory pushed by conservative lawyer John Eastman that a vice president can alter an election outcome, while detailing the pressure Pence was under to not certify the electoral votes and the danger he faced on Jan. 6.
The former vice president on Monday called Jan. 6 a “tragic day” in an interview with Fox News, but he added that he will not allow Democrats to use it to “distract attention from their failed agenda.”
The Jan. 6 committee hearings continue Tuesday with a focus on Trump’s apparent efforts to pressure state officials to overturn the election in his favor.