"In addition to the border wall proposal, the draft
party platform calls for a slowdown in any new multinational trade deals
and eliminates support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership."
7/12/16, "GOP draft platform will include Trump's proposed border wall," Fox News
"The Republican platform committee included language calling for a
border wall along the U.S. and Mexican border in the draft party
platform, getting behind one of presumptive presidential nominee Donald
Trump's keystone proposals.
The group wrapped up drafting the plan Tuesday in
Cleveland in advance of the convention there next week, when the
platform will officially be voted on by the full convention's 2,472
delegates.
The proposed platform will express support for a
“border wall” that must cover “the entirety of the Southern Border and
must be sufficient to stop both vehicular and pedestrian traffic.”
The measure was proposed by Trump supporter Kris Kobach, the secretary of state from Kansas.
"This is why we support building a wall along our
southern border and protecting all ports of entry," Kobach told Fox
News. "The border wall must cover the entirety of the southern border
and must be sufficient to stop both vehicular and pedestrian traffic."
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince
Priebus, appearing on "On The Record with Greta Van Susteren," said that
including the border wall in the party's proposed platform was a "hat
tip" to Trump.
“Whether it's a fence or a wall, I mean, for years and years the
platform has included the border fence, which congress passed in 2006
but never actually funded," he said. "The idea of a border fence has
been in our platform for many, many years and just changing the word
from fence to wall is what they did and maybe it was a little hat tip to
Donald Trump on that issue and that's fine."
"It's something that the party had in the platform
for a long time," he added. "We are just saying what our position is but
as far as who pays for it, you know, Congress already agreed that it
would be paid for 10 years ago and now it will be up to President Trump
to figure that one out.”
In addition to the border wall proposal, the draft
party platform calls for a slowdown in any new multinational trade deals
and eliminates support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
While embracing some of Trump's proposals, the
proposed GOP platform continues the party's previous stance against
same-sex marriage, and other socially conservative issues."
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