07-24-2016, 01:04 PM
Quote:The American Unity Fund, a Singer-backed nonprofit, underwrote the gathering as its members strategized how to strip anti-gay language from the Republican Party’s official platform. The effort would be a spectacular bust. Calls to overturn gay marriage remained. Provisions opposing transgender bathrooms were inserted. “Natural marriage” was hailed. Pro-gay rights Republicans tried to insert language condemning Islamic terrorists for targeting LGBT individuals a month after the attack in Orlando, and Rachel Hoff, the first openly gay platform committee member, challenged her fellow Republicans, “Can you not, at the very least, stand up for our right not to be killed?” The measure lost.Inside the GOP’s Shadow Convention - POLITICO Magazine
Quote:Ryan favors free trade deals, has backed comprehensive immigration reform and wants to rein in entitlement programs. Trump is a trade protectionist, whose immigration policy centers on building a mammoth wall and a deportation force, and he wants no cutbacks to entitlements.Inside the GOP’s Shadow Convention - POLITICO Magazine
Quote:If Trump exploited a divide between the elite GOP agenda and the electorate, Peter Wehner, a senior adviser in the Bush White House, said, “Republicans have to find how much of it is Trump, how much of this is Trumpism.”Inside the GOP’s Shadow Convention - POLITICO Magazine