4 takeaways from the new Republican Party platform — or Trump’s playbook
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4 takeaways from the new Republican Party platform — or Trump’s playbook

LA Times  

Then-President Trump after addressing delegates at the Republican National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., in 2020. The Republican National Convention’s platform committee released its new platform Monday, cementing the party’s alignment with Donald Trump ahead of next week’s convention in Milwaukee. ‘America first’ foreign policy In keeping with Trump’s “America first” mantra on foreign policy, the Republican Party platform says a second Trump administration will invest heavily in the U.S. military by increasing pay to the troops and ramping up defense equipment production. The Republican Party is Trump’s party The new platform, dedicated “To the Forgotten Men and Women of America,” shows how closely the party is adhering to Trump’s campaign stump speech, with heavy emphasis on major issues, such as immigration, and few details for how policies would be designed or carried out. “One generation ago, it would’ve been heresy to say we want to replace the party platform, which is a very large document,” Fleischman said.

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