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(Bloomberg) — A Republican party committee approved a 2024 platform ahead of next week’s convention that details priorities for presumptive nominee Donald Trump’s potential second-term agenda, including addressing the migrant border crisis, cutting taxes and boosting domestic energy production.
The platform was approved Monday by the Republican National Committee’s platform committee. Trump extensively wrote and edited the draft that members will be discussing, according to a person familiar who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the process — the latest sign of how the former president is shaping the party in his image.
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The language shared by the campaign highlights 20 principles but does not make mention of abortion, which is the center of an intra-party clash among Republicans, who have long called for banning the procedure — a stance popular with conservatives but unpopular with the US electorate at large.
Trump has urged Republicans to rethink how they talk about abortion as he looks to appeal to suburban women and independents in the wake of restrictions on the procedure after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade’s federal protections.
The 20 principles in the platform, detailed in Trump’s all-caps style, include a call to seal the border and stop the “migrant invasion” and carry out the “largest deportation operation” in US history.
It also pledges to make the US the “dominant energy producer in the world” and “stop outsourcing” and includes “large tax cuts for workers, and no tax on tips” — the latter a policy Trump publicly floated at a June rally in Las Vegas in a bid to court blue-collar workers in swing states such as Nevada. The document includes a vow to “cancel the electric vehicle mandate and cut costly and burdensome regulations.”
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Trump has made his pledges to renew expiring tax cuts and cut federal regulations a centerpiece of his bid to return to the White House in November’s election.
The committee adopted the platform while Trump, who has largely been silent since his first debate with President Joe Biden, prepares to return to the campaign trail with two rallies this week in Florida and Pennsylvania. Trump also has said he would announce his running mate close to the convention’s start.
Trump has avoided the spotlight to keep the glare on Biden, who delivered a poor debate performance that sparked fears among many Democrats that the incumbent president would not be able to defeat Trump or handle the rigors of another four-year term.
—With assistance from Stephanie Lai.
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