“We reject the certified results of the 2020 presidential election and hold that incumbent President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States,” the resolution said, passed Saturday by a vote in Houston. “We urge all Republicans to work hard to ensure the integrity of the election and to stand for election in November 2022, bring in your friends and family, volunteer for local Republicans, and overwhelm any possible fraud.”
Prior to the adoption of the final resolution, Brian Bodine, a platform committee member who says he wrote the resolution, proposed an amendment to the January 6, 2021 attack on the United States Capitol. He asserted that his confession had been obtained through torture and that his confession had been obtained through torture. The proposal provoked applause and chants “Let’s go to Brandon.” Matt Rinaldi, chairman of the committee, ruled that the amendment was out of order and would not be considered.
The platform also included a section calling homosexuality “an abnormal lifestyle choice” and opposing “all efforts to validate transgender identity.”
The state party platform has not yet materialized, Texas GOP spokesman James Wesolek told CNN, but votes are being counted on each individual board.
In addition, during the convention, Texas Sen. John Cornyn, a leading GOP negotiator in bipartisan arms talks, received boos from people in his home state after he said he had “fought and kept out of table President Biden ‘s wish list to take up arms “.
“Democrats pushed for a ban on assault weapons, I said no. They tried to get a new mandatory three-week waiting period for all gun purchases, I said no. Universal checks on “Background, magazine bans, license requirements, the list goes on and on. And I said no, no, 1,000 times no,” Cornyn said.
“Then you might ask, ‘What’s on the table?’ More mental health resources, more support for our schools, and making sure that violent criminals and the mentally ill can’t buy a gun, “Cornyn said as the boos continued. current law. That’s what I’ve heard from many of you here today and this week, and that’s what we’re working on, no more and no less. “
The party also unanimously passed a vote-by-vote resolution Saturday rejecting the bipartisan arms deal and reprimanding Cornyn and other GOP negotiators, including Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Susan Collins of Maine, Bill Cassidy. of Louisiana, Mitt Romney of Utah, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Rob Portman of Ohio, and Roy Blunt of Missouri.
CNN’s Michael Warren, Morgan Rimmer and Ali Zaslav contributed to this report.