Politico: Trump Campaign Blocks Two Anti-Abortion Delegates From Slots On GOP Platform Committee

Politico reports:

Two hardline anti-abortion delegates to next week’s GOP platform committee have been stripped of their positions, according to several members of the Republican National Committee, underscoring a broader fear among evangelicals and other social conservatives that the party is poised to moderate its stance on abortion at the direction of former President Donald Trump.

The Trump campaign’s efforts to block the two South Carolina delegates from the platform committee and replace them with loyalists is described in several affidavits as “interference from paid RNC staff … to circumvent the will of the delegation.”

Delegates in four other states told POLITICO they, too, had been blocked by operatives with the Trump campaign from securing seats on the platform committee.

Read the full article. Photo: RNC chair Michael Whatley.

Yesterday anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ hate groups announced that they have formed a coalition to prevent the Trump campaign from watering down the GOP platform.

Trump campaign blocks pair of anti-abortion activists from RNC platform committee https://t.co/6PpIB3pDBR via @politico

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