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July 8, 2024

RNC Platform Committee Adopts 2024 Republican Party Platform

Document Reflects 20 GOP Principles, Roadmap to Make America Great Again

MILWAUKEE, Wis. – Today, the Republican National Committee (RNC) Platform Committee adopted President Donald J. Trump’s 2024 Republican Party Platform with overwhelming support– a pro-American agenda that stands in stark contrast to the record of weakness, failure, and dishonesty created by Joe Biden. President Trump’s platform serves as a contract with the American voter that makes clear what we can and will deliver under a President Trump administration with the Republican Party leading the country for the next four years.
 
“President Trump’s 2024 Republican Party Platform articulates his vision to Make America Great Again in a way that is concise and digestible for every voter,” said Trump Campaign Senior Advisors Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles. “While Joe Biden and Democrats argue about who will be at the top of their ticket and have implemented policies that have raised prices on everyday families, opened the floodgates to migrant crime via wide-open borders, shackled American energy with red tape forced by Washington bureaucrats, and sewn chaos across the world through weak foreign policy, President Trump will Make America Great Again through these America First principles.”
 
“Only President Trump can restore our economy, restore our Southern Border, and restore America’s standing in the world,” said RNC Chairman Michael Whatley and RNC Co-Chair Lara Trump. “His 2024 Republican Party Platform is a bold roadmap that will undo the devastating damage that Joe Biden’s far-left policies have done to this country, power President Trump to a historic victory in November, and Make America Great Again. 
 
Read the 2024 Platform, as passed by Committee, below:
 
Our Nation’s History is filled with the stories of brave men and women who gave everything they had to build America into the Greatest Nation in the History of the World. Generations of American Patriots have summoned the American Spirit of Strength, Determination, and Love of Country to overcome seemingly insurmountable challenges. The American People have proven time and again that we can overcome any obstacle and any force pitted against us.

But now we are a Nation in SERIOUS DECLINE. Our future, our identity, and our very way of life are under threat like never before. Today we must once again call upon the same American Spirit that led us to prevail through every challenge of the past if we are going to lead our Nation to a brighter future.
 
For decades, our politicians sold our jobs and livelihoods to the highest bidders overseas with unfair Trade Deals and a blind faith in the siren song of globalism. They insulated themselves from criticism and the consequences of their own bad actions, allowing our Borders to be overrun, our cities to be overtaken by crime, our System of Justice to be weaponized, and our young people to develop a sense of hopelessness and despair. They rejected our History and our Values. Quite simply, they did everything in their power to destroy our Country.
 
In 2016, President Donald J. Trump was elected as an unapologetic Champion of the American People. He reignited the American Spirit and called on us to renew our National Pride. His Policies spurred Historic Economic Growth, Job Creation, and a Resurgence of American Manufacturing. President Trump and the Republican Party led America out of the pessimism induced by decades of failed leadership, showing us that the American People want Greatness for our Country again.
 
Yet after nearly four years of the Biden administration, America is now rocked by Raging Inflation, Open Borders, Rampant Crime, Attacks on our Children, and Global Conflict, Chaos, and Instability.
 
Like the Heroes who built and defended this Nation before us, we will never give up. We will restore our Nation of, by, and for the People.  We will Make America Great Again.
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America needs determined Republican Leadership at every level of Government to address the core threats to our very survival: Our disastrously Open Border, our weakened Economy, crippling restrictions on American Energy Production, our depleted Military, attacks on the American System of Justice, and much more.
 
To make clear our commitment, we offer to the American people the 2024 GOP Platform to Make America Great Again!  It is a forward-looking Agenda that begins with the following twenty promises that we will accomplish very quickly when we win the White House and Republican Majorities in the House and Senate.
 
1. SEAL THE BORDER, AND STOP THE MIGRANT INVASION

2. CARRY OUT THE LARGEST DEPORTATION OPERATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY

3. END INFLATION, AND MAKE AMERICA AFFORDABLE AGAIN

4. MAKE AMERICA THE DOMINANT ENERGY PRODUCER IN THE WORLD, BY FAR!

5. STOP OUTSOURCING, AND TURN THE UNITED STATES INTO A MANUFACTURING SUPERPOWER

6. LARGE TAX CUTS FOR WORKERS, AND NO TAX ON TIPS!

7. DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION, OUR BILL OF RIGHTS, AND OUR FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS, INCLUDING FREEDOM OF SPEECH, FREEDOM OF RELIGION, AND THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS

8. PREVENT WORLD WAR THREE, RESTORE PEACE IN EUROPE AND IN THE MIDDLE EAST, AND BUILD A GREAT IRON DOME MISSILE DEFENSE SHIELD OVER OUR ENTIRE COUNTRY -- ALL MADE IN AMERICA

9. END THE WEAPONIZATION OF GOVERNMENT AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

10. STOP THE MIGRANT CRIME EPIDEMIC, DEMOLISH THE FOREIGN DRUG CARTELS, CRUSH GANG VIOLENCE, AND LOCK UP VIOLENT OFFENDERS

11. REBUILD OUR CITIES, INCLUDING WASHINGTON DC, MAKING THEM SAFE, CLEAN, AND BEAUTIFUL AGAIN.

12. STRENGTHEN AND MODERNIZE OUR MILITARY, MAKING IT, WITHOUT QUESTION, THE STRONGEST AND MOST POWERFUL IN THE WORLD

13. KEEP THE U.S. DOLLAR AS THE WORLD’S RESERVE CURRENCY

14. FIGHT FOR AND PROTECT SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE WITH NO CUTS, INCLUDING NO CHANGES TO THE RETIREMENT AGE

15. CANCEL THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE MANDATE AND CUT COSTLY AND BURDENSOME REGULATIONS

16. CUT FEDERAL FUNDING FOR ANY SCHOOL PUSHING CRITICAL RACE THEORY, RADICAL GENDER IDEOLOGY, AND OTHER INAPPROPRIATE RACIAL, SEXUAL, OR POLITICAL CONTENT ON OUR CHILDREN

17. KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS

18. DEPORT PRO-HAMAS RADICALS AND MAKE OUR COLLEGE CAMPUSES SAFE AND PATRIOTIC AGAIN

19. SECURE OUR ELECTIONS, INCLUDING SAME DAY VOTING, VOTER IDENTIFICATION, PAPER BALLOTS, AND PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP

20. UNITE OUR COUNTRY BY BRINGING IT TO NEW AND RECORD LEVELS OF SUCCESS

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Republican National Committee
July 8, 2024

WTAS: RNC MEMBERS, DELEGATES SUPPORT PRESIDENT TRUMP'S 2024 PLATFORM

MILWAUKEE, Wis. - Today, RNC members and delegates showed their overwhelming support for President Trump's 2024 Platform, a pro-American agenda that stands in stark contrast to the record of weakness, failure, and dishonesty created by Joe Biden:

"So proud to be here in Milwaukee on the Platform Committee and to be part of history. We approved a Platform that is for ALL of us. Today and together, with Love of our Country, Faith in our People, and Trust in God’s Good Grace, we will Make America Great Again!" - Julianne Murry, Delaware Platform and Connecticut

“The Republican Party has endorsed a historic and unique Platform which accurately reflects President Donald  J. Trump’s vision for the direction in which we will take the Country when he is elected to be our 47th President.  It draws a stark and clear contrast between the policies and goals of the  next Trump Administration and the current failed Biden Administration.  The platform speaks directly to the American People, not the political elites, about how a Republican Government under President Trump will improve the lives of everyday Americans by Making America Great Again!” -  Leora Levy, Connecticut Platform Delegate and Connecticut National Committee Woman
 
"The Republican Party 2024 Platform emphasizes strong economic policies aimed at reducing taxes and deregulating businesses to spur job creation and economic growth by prioritizing border, security and law enforcement. It aims to protect communities and maintain national sovereignty.  The focus on energy independence through the promotion of domestic energy production is designed to reduce reliance on foreign sources and strengthen our economy. The platform commitment to upholding, traditional values and constitutional rights is intended to preserve American freedoms and promote social stability this platform is the perfect tool to help President Trump make America Great Again." - Ramona Christian, Virginia Platform Delegate Buckingham GOP Chair
 
"I am proud to vote for our America First, pro-life, pro-family, pro-energy independence, and strong national defense platform. This document is a promise to the America. People on what they should expect when we elect President Donald Trump to his second term. West Virginia has been hit among the hardest by Joe Biden’s failed policies. Bidenflation bas made it difficult for families to even meet their basic needs for their families. We need President Trump to make America great again by securing the border, making his historic tax cuts permanent, and removing overly burdensome Federal regulations. West Virginia needs President Trump and will be proud to elect him with record margins on Election Day." - Marissa Findlay, West Virginia Delegate on Platform Committee
 
"Direct, concise, and reasoned, the 2024 Republican Platform presents a blueprint defining the policies President Trump and a Republican Congress will enact to Make America Great Again. Tackling the twin scourges of the Biden-Harris Administration’s policies that have resulted in record-breaking inflation and open borders, this platform offers sensible and workable solutions to the challenges America faces after three-and-a-half years of Democrat rule. This is a platform on which every Republican can embrace and take directly to the voters to advance victory on November 5." - Jeffery Ryer, Virginia GOP Platform Delegate
 
"I am proud to serve as a member of the Republican National Convention Platform Committee. The Platform reflects President Donald Trump's vision for America. It presents a common-sense approach to saving America from the failed policies of Joe Biden and Democrats. Americans are hungry for change, for a better America and a better future for our children and grandchildren, and the principles and values outlined in our Republican Platform will help create the future we all want for America.The 2024 Republican Party Platform is not only reflective of the Republican Party but, more importantly, of America and the Americans, and with this platform, we are ready to get America back on track." - Ben Proto, Connecticut Platform Delegate and Connecticut Republican State Chairman

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FRC Action
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 8, 2024
CONTACT: J.P. Duffy or Alice Chao

FRC Action's Tony Perkins Statement on the Adoption of the 2024 Republican Party Platform

Milwaukee, WI -- Family Research Council Action Chairman Tony Perkins, who is a member of the RNC Platform Committee from Louisiana, released the following statement in response to the adoption of the 2024 Republican Party Platform:

“The 2024 platform is a concise statement of campaign priorities, but not a declaration of enduring principles for a political party.  Unfortunately, the choreographed process -- which allowed no amendments to be discussed or voted upon -- was unbecoming of a party that champions free speech and due process.   Delegates were given the platform this morning when they entered the convention hall with no time to review, much less the 72 hours that Republican lawmakers call for in the House of Representatives. 

“Delegates were only given a few minutes of discussion before ‘debate’ was ended and a vote was taken. Ironically, the document calls for a vigorous defense of free speech and the end of government censorship.  Deprived of the opportunity to discuss amendments to the ‘draft’ platform document, we have submitted a minority report to supplement that campaign’s platform.

“The submission of a minority report is further evidence that the pro-life movement will continue to advance pro-life principles and policies at every level of government. 

“The right to life transcends other political debates and the interests of any and all political parties and candidates. It is truly the right without which no other right has any meaning,” concluded Perkins.

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Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America
July 8, 2024

SBA. Statement on GOP Platform

Washington, D.C. – In response to draft Republican Party platform language approved today, SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser made the following statement:

“It is important that the GOP reaffirmed its commitment to protect unborn life today through the 14th Amendment. Under this amendment, it is Congress that enacts and enforces its provisions. The Republican Party remains strongly pro-life at the national level.

“The mission of the pro-life movement, for the next four months, must be to defeat the Biden-Harris extreme abortion agenda.

“The platform allows us to provide the winning message to 10 million voters, with four million visits at the door in key battleground states. We are educating voters on the Biden-Harris promotion of abortion for any reason even in the seventh, eighth, or ninth month. We contrast that with protecting the states’ ability to create consensus pro-life laws and provide compassionate options for women and children.”
This election cycle, SBA Pro-Life America and its affiliated entities plan to spend $92 million to protect life across America. The groups’ largest-ever voter contact program includes reaching 10 million voters—with four million visits directly at their homes—across eight key battleground states: Arizona, Georgia, Montana, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio.

Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America is a network of more than one million pro-life Americans nationwide, dedicated to ending abortion by electing national leaders and advocating for laws that save lives, with a special calling to promote pro-life women leaders.

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Biden for President
July 8, 2024

Trump Loyalists Turn Project 2025 Into Republican Party Platform

This morning, Donald Trump’s campaign previewed an RNC platform in the style of their candidate’s unhinged, rambling, extreme rants. For once, they delivered, ripping straight from Project 2025 with a few strategic omissions to try and pull the wool over voters’ eyes.

Donald Trump’s policy “platform” reads more like the screed of an unhinged and unwell conspiracy theorist
who hates America and is in it for himself. Because, well, it is.

According to the Times’ report, Trump’s top campaign advisers worked to have “policy specifics kept to a bare minimum” to avoid the public learning more about their unpopular agenda, including their plans to ban abortion nationwide with or without Congress.

The glaring omissions from Trump’s so-called “platform” are a reminder of what he’s trying to hide from the American people:
  • Donald Trump will ban abortion nationwide with or without Congress. He’s said so publicly and privately, as have his allies, who “trust” him to get it done.
  • Donald Trump will repeal Obamacare, ripping health care away from tens of millions of Americans and throwing young people under 26 off their parents’ insurance, as he tried to do multiple times while in office.
  • Donald Trump will slash Social Security and Medicare – and proposed doing so every year he was in office.
  • Donald Trump will raise costs for workers to line the pockets of his billionaire donors, as he has promised to do behind closed doors.
  • Donald Trump will abandon our NATO allies and encourage Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Last week, The Washington Post reported that Trump’s team barred the press and C-SPAN cameras from RNC platform committee meetings for the first time in years. An RNC spokesperson admitted to the Times that the Trump team “withheld the names of the representatives in order to insulate them” from the scrutiny of the American people.

Unfortunately for Trump and his allies, their platform is already public – a 900-page handbook on extremism known as Project 2025. More and more voters are tuning in to – and horrified by – Donald Trump’s agenda.

A reminder of just how far Donald Trump will go to bring Project 2025 to fruition:
  • Empower himself to get ‘revenge’ on his enemies and weaponize the DOJ to prosecute them
  • Conduct the largest deportation operation in American history
  • Undo all Biden-era environmental progress and replace green energy sources with oil and nuclear energy
  • Gut the Department of Education
  • Destroy democracy to ensure elections are only “secure” if he wins
  • Censor books and American history
  • Disintegrate the separation between religion and state, forcing students to read the Bible and pray in school
Biden-Harris 2024 Spokesperson James Singer released the following statement:

“Every voter should Google Project 2025 if they want to know Donald Trump's true agenda for America. What was put out today was not a platform, it was a cheap, in all caps admission that Trump and his campaign want to hide from his dangerous Project 2025 agenda to make Trump a dictator on day one, destroy our system of checks and balances, cut Social Security, ban abortion and worse.”

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Democratic National Committee
DNC War Room
July 8, 2024

Trump's Project 2025 Platform is the Most Extreme in GOP History

Following the Republican Platform Committee’s adoption of Trump’s 2024 Republican Party platform, DNC National Press Secretary Emilia Rowland released the following statement:

“Trump is so desperate to distance himself from Project 2025 as the American people are grappling with the terrifying truth about his second term agenda that he and his team overhauled the Republican platform process to keep the public and the press in the dark, all caps-ed 20 bullet points behind closed doors, and blasted it out to divert attention from his real plans: a national abortion ban, handouts for his billionaire donors on the backs of middle-class Americans, cuts to Medicare and Social Security, and to be a dictator on ‘day one.’ The reality is that Trump literally put architects of Project 2025 in charge of the Republican platform, and the result is not only the most extreme platform in GOP history but one containing lie after lie after lie. The American people know that Trump wants a nationwide abortion ban and they know the only thing standing in the way of Trump’s terrifying second term agenda is reelecting President Biden and Vice President Harris in November.”

Trump and his MAGA cronies are already trying to spin their terrifying agenda to hide the Project 2025 blueprint that would guide his second term agenda.

Trump’s team frantically dropped an ALL CAPS list of 20 bullet points, filled with lies. So, we fixed it for them:

1. Tank a bipartisan border security deal for Trump’s political gain
2. Rip families apart while enacting cruel anti-immigrant policies
3. Send inflation soaring, risking an economic crash
4. Gut environmental protections to appease Big Oil and Big Gas
5. Wage a reckless trade war and impose a bigger tax on middle class families
6. Gift massive tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy and big corporations at the expense of the middle class
7. Rip away as many freedoms as possible from as many Americans as possible
8. Double down on being an international embarrassment, turning against our allies, praising foreign dictators and authoritarian leaders, and siding with our adversaries over our military and intelligence communities
9. Weaponize the government to target and fire “disloyal” federal employees
10. Rail against historic legislation such as the American Rescue Plan which bolstered law enforcement’s ability to protect our communities
11. Continue to fail to deliver on infrastructure and investing in America after making “Infrastructure Week” a long-running joke
12. Call servicemembers “suckers” and “losers”
13. Rig the economy for the ultra-wealthy and big corporations and cause an “inflation bomb” with no regard for how it would affect the middle class
14. Gut Social Security and Medicare
15. Threaten thousands of jobs being created thanks to President Biden’s EV manufacturing boom, rolling back progress in fighting the climate crisis while costing good paying jobs and causing economic harm
16. Completely eliminate the Department of Education – causing a crisis for teachers, parents, and students
17. Attack the LGBTQ+ community, ripping away their rights and rolling back anti-discrimination protections
18. Repeal other measures to ensure all Americans have opportunities to thrive and threatening children’s ability to learn true American history
19. Fail to accept election results and attempt to overturn the 2024 election
20. Attacking democracy at every turn
21. Redacted: Ban abortion nationwide

Trump has desperately tried to disown his Project 2025 agenda – even though its architects are some of the same MAGA extremists writing his platform:[CONTINUES]

American Bridge 21st Century
July 8, 2024

The RNC Platform is Still One of the Most Extreme Party Platforms Ever

Donald Trump’s campaign tried and failed to hide the extremism in the Republican National Convention platform, despite its policy recommendations being led by Project 2025 policy chief  Russell Vought and anti-abortion extremist Ed Martin, but they failed as the document looks like a blueprint for transforming America into a dystopian nightmare overnight.

The RNC platform calls for mass deportations, a federal task force to investigate non-Christians, banning people from non-Christian nations from entering the country, eliminating the Department of Education, and assumes the 14th Amendment grants Congress the power to further restrict reproductive rights for millions of people. 

“The Republican National Committee platform is one of the most extreme party platforms ever in the history of modern presidential elections. Only a party controlled by Donald Trump would call to install Christian Nationalism in the federal government, destroy public education, and allow extremists to enforce abortion bans or assume Congress could take even more rights away through a bastardization of the 14th Amendment,” said American Bridge 21st Century Communications Director of Presidential Campaigns, Brandon Weathersby. “This is one of the most extreme policy documents approved ahead of a major party’s presidential convention – and the reason voters will reject Republicans all the way down the ballot in November.” 

The wildest proposals from Trump’s hand-crafted RNC platform:

  • Spend millions of dollars on a massive immigrant deportation program that mirrors President Eisenhower’s disastrous and racist “Operation Wetback.”
  • Install another racist “travel ban” and ban people from non-Christian countries from entering the United States through “extreme vetting.”
  • Starve Social Security and Medicaid by ending taxes that pay into both programs.
  • Make permanent, massive tax cuts for the super wealthy — like Trump and rich corporations. 
  • Enact steep, economy-wrecking tariffs on imported goods that economists say could cost families up to $2,300.
  • Eliminate the Department of Education, allow extreme state legislatures to defund public schools, and end tenure for teachers.
  • Re-introduce school prayer and establish a federal task force to investigate complaints about non-Christians made by Christian Americans.
  • Erect barriers to divorce and discourage non-”traditional” families.
  • Revoke visas of foreign visitors who engage in acts of protest.
  • Vague promises to “root out wrongdoers and fire corrupt employees,” echoing Trump’s revenge fantasies and rhetoric that he’ll use his power to jail his political rivals. 
  • An interpretation of the 14th Amendment would grant Congress power to further restrict reproductive rights in Trump’s post-Roe America.
 
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America's Voice
July 9, 2024

2024 Republican Platform “Makes Official” the GOP’s Mass Deportation Agenda

Vanessa Cárdenas: “Every Republican needs to make clear where they stand … the more Americans learn about the toll and implications … the more unpopular and toxic it will become.”
Access online version of release HERE

Washington, DC — Yesterday’s release of the Republican Party’s official 2024 platform reflects the GOP’s full takeover by Donald Trump and the dangerous radicalization of the Republican Party.

The first two priorities of the new platform, detailed in Trump’s preferred all caps style, are, “SEAL THE BORDER, AND STOP THE MIGRANT INVASION,” echoing the white nationalist rhetoric that has been used by multiple deadly domestic terrorists, followed by “CARRY OUT THE LARGEST DEPORTATION OPERATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY,” without detailing that deeply rooted immigrants like Dreamers, business owners and members of U.S. citizen families would be included. There is an additional platform priority that advances the false storyline about immigrants and crime, noting: “STOP THE MIGRANT CRIME EPIDEMIC…”

Also yesterday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) embraced Trump’s agenda for mass roundups and deportations, noting that “the largest deportation effort in history…it’s needed. ” Of note, Trump and allies have made clear their proposed mass deportations would be unsparing, saying “No one should be off the table,” meaning the deportations wouldn’t be focused on those who Speaker Johnson portrays through lurid lies about immigrants and crime, but against long-settled immigrants deeply rooted and contributing to America.

The following is a statement from Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice:

“The Republican Party 2024 platform makes official the GOP’s long and very ugly descent on immigration. The GOP embrace of the white nationalist ‘invasion’ language cements the GOP’s dangerous turn toward mainstreaming a conspiracy already linked to multiple acts of deadly violence. Added to that is the full endorsement of unsparing deportations - a massive purge that would rip apart American families, communities and our economy and is the single most consequential and damaging immigration and economic position of Trump’s campaign.  Donald Trump and Stephen Miller’s anti-immigrant wishlist is now stamped with the full support of a once-proud party that used to recognize that immigrants and immigration are a strength of America.

On the pledge to conduct mass deportations, Trump’s refusal to answer Jake Tapper’s debate question was revealing and he and other Republicans need to fully explain their plan for the pledged ‘largest deportation operation’ in history and its unsparing focus. Speaker Mike Johnson is on-board, but what about the rest of the GOP – from the 10 candidates who are a part of the new bilingual Show Me Your Friends/Dime Con Quién Andas campaign – candidates who try to portray themselves as moderates on immigration to their voters – to other GOP candidates up and down the ballot?

Every Republican needs to make clear where they stand. Just like Project 2025, the more Americans learn about the toll and implications of Donald Trump’s dangerous and damaging second-term vision, as reflected in the official Republican platform, the more unpopular and toxic it will become.”

Read below:

  • Memo: Trump’s Mass-Deportation Plan is the Central Immigration Focus of His 2024 Campaign and Should Be Covered That Way
  • Read about America’s Voice DIME campaign: “America’s Voice Launches Bilingual Campaign Targeting 10 Battleground Congressional Districts and Anti-Immigrant Extremism”
  • Watch a recorded version of a recent briefing about a Trump second term on immigration – from re-upping family separation to mass deportation to the allied Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 agenda featuring immigration experts and analysts from America’s Voice, Cato Institute, Niskanen Center, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Court Accountability Action
July 9, 20204

This memo is produced by Court Accountability Action for use by advocates, policymakers, and the public.

The Republican Platform Reflects Trump’s Vision for A Nationwide Abortion Ban

Donald Trump’s statement that he doesn’t support an act of Congress to ban abortion nationwide is hollow, because the national abortion ban Trump and his right-wing allies seek will be accomplished through the courts they captured. Trump’s 2024 Republican Party Platform makes this clear by calling on states to endorse “fetal personhood” to justify their abortion restrictions, teeing up the courts to declare abortion unconstitutional.

This should come as no surprise—Trump is seeking to distance himself from the Republicans’ politically toxic anti-abortion agenda, content to outsource his assault on women’s freedoms to his captured and unaccountable MAGA Court.

Since he began running for president, Trump repeatedly promised to use the Supreme Court to overturn Roe:

“I’m pro-life. The judges will be pro-life.” – Trump on 60 Minutes, (11/13/2016)

In response to a presidential debate question on whether he wanted to “see the court overturn Roe v. Wade,” Trump responded, “Well, if we put another two or perhaps three justices on, that’s really what's going to be – that will happen. And that’ll happen automatically, in my opinion, because I am putting pro-life justices on the court.”  – Presidential Debate (10/19/2016)

Former Vice President Pence echoed Trump’s commitment to appoint only anti-choice justices to the Supreme Court:


“And that’s why next week president Donald Trump will announce a Supreme Court nominee who will uphold the God-given liberties enshrined in our Constitution, in the tradition of the late and great Justice Antonin Scalia.  Life is winning in America.”  – Pence at the March for Life (1/27/2017)

At the debate last month, Trump bragged about appointing the justices who overturned Roe:

“And what I did is I put three great Supreme Court justices on the court, and they happened to vote in favor of killing Roe v. Wade and moving it back to the states.” – Presidential Debate (6/28/2024)

The GOP platform is unequivocal in its support for fetal personhood:

We proudly stand for families and Life. We believe that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States guarantees that no person can be denied Life or Liberty without Due Process, and that the States are, therefore, free to pass Laws protecting those Rights. After 51 years, because of us, that power has been given to the States and to a vote of the People. We will oppose Late Term Abortion, while supporting mothers and policies that advance Prenatal Care, access to Birth Control, and IVF (fertility treatments).

The platform explicitly recognizes fetal personhood, while framing restricting abortion as a states’ rights issue. The inherent contradiction in those policies is what has allowed the Trump campaign to confuse the issue, and, in usual fashion, to have it both ways, as Jessica Valenti eloquently explains. But in reality, the two concepts are designed to work hand-in-hand. States will invoke fetal personhood to defend their abortion restrictions all the way to the Supreme Court, where Trump and the Republican Party expect the right-wing justices to endorse “the legal theory that the Constitution already outlaws abortion with or without amendment,” as Jamelle Bouie writes in the New York Times.

Make no mistake: The MAGA Court’s fetal personhood agenda poses a direct threat to ALL Americans’ reproductive freedoms, in red and blue states alike. Abortion, IVF, and contraceptive access are all at dire risk.

The bottom line:
Trump and MAGA Republicans have proudly captured and reshaped the Supreme Court in their image, making good on Trump’s promise to add three vehemently anti-choice justices who joined together with Justices Thomas and Alito to overturn Roe, a precedent that was in place for 50 years. If given the opportunity for another term, he will continue his assault on our freedoms using the Supreme Court, appointing additional extreme justices to carry out his anti-choice, anti-democratic agenda that is not supported by the American people. A craftily worded platform document can’t disguise the years of clear and unrelenting commitment to taking away American women’s reproductive freedom.

Talking Points from Reproductive Freedom for All:

  • The bottom line is this: If Trump wins the presidency in 2024, he will try to ban abortion nationwide—and he won’t stop there. And that is what the GOP Platform promises to do. From birth control to IVF, all of our fundamental rights and freedoms are on the line.
  • From appointing the Supreme Court majority that overturned Roe v. Wade to decimating our nation’s family planning program to reviving dangerous anti-abortion restrictions that block access to abortion globally, Donald Trump has already shown us that there is nothing he won’t do to end abortion access.
  • Trump and the devastating abortion bans he opened the door for have emboldened anti-abortion extremists nationwide. MAGA Republicans are increasingly saying the quiet parts loud—attacking emergency abortion care, birth control, and IVF.
  • Despite Trump lying about his stance on medication abortion, Project 2025 (which he has also implausibly tried to disavow) includes a plan to block access to abortion pills, effectively banning them in all 50 states—no matter what protections are in place in state law or the state’s constitution.
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Morgan Johnson (she/her)
Director of Programs and Partnerships
Court Accountability Action