美国广播公司新闻频道(ABC News)获得的一份发给共和党政纲委员会的备忘录显示，唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)的高级顾问正计划改革和缩短共和党的政纲，以便与这位前总统的“美国未来愿景”保持“一致”。
这份备忘录发布之际，一些在社会上更加保守的RNC成员以及一些反堕胎团体已经表示担心，这个周期的平台可能会采取川普的立场论生育权，这将解除对为期20周的联邦堕胎禁令的呼吁，这是当前平台语言的一部分。
特朗普一直明确反对联邦禁令，并倾向于将这个问题留给各州解决。
这份备忘录没有具体提到堕胎或生育权，但强调了新平台将反映特朗普的政治立场。
“几十年来，共和党人出版了教科书式的政纲，这些政纲受到我们的政治对手的仔细审查和有意歪曲。特朗普竞选经理克里斯·拉西维塔(Chris LaCivita)和苏西·怀尔斯(Susie Wiles)发出的备忘录称:“主流媒体利用他们的天字第一号讲坛来延续谎言和失实陈述，选民往往会认为我们代表的东西与我们实际上所做的不同。”
RNC的2016年政纲在2020年再次获得批准——两次都是特朗普执掌该党——长达60多页。
“发表一篇不必要的长篇大论将为我们的对手向选民提供错误信息和歪曲事实的火上浇油。备忘录称:“正是基于这种认识，我们将提出一个符合特朗普总统对美国未来有原则、受欢迎的愿景的精简平台。”。
这份备忘录已于周四发送给平台委员会成员。
该委员会于7月7日晚开始在密尔沃基召开会议，并计划在RNC大会之前的7月8日和9日召开会议。
据几位知情人士透露，新平台的草案语言尚未分发给大多数平台委员会成员或RNC将军成员，尽管关键倡导团体的领导人和一些个人一直在就这些问题与特朗普的盟友进行多次对话和游说。
“关于改变共和党反堕胎政纲的讨论令全国反堕胎的美国人深感担忧。只有一个政党是生命的捍卫者，如果共和党退出这场战斗，就没有人继续这场战斗，”前副总统迈克·彭斯的非营利政治倡导组织的新任主席蒂姆·查普曼说。
“我们的期望是，共和党平台将继续明确呼吁国家保护未出生的孩子，这植根于第14修正案。“淡化共和党对生命的立场将意味着放弃捍卫所有人的人类尊严，”苏珊·b·安东尼反堕胎美国公司总裁马乔里·丹嫩费尔泽在给美国广播公司新闻的一份声明中说。
Trump campaign memo signals plans to reduce the national GOP platform
Donald Trump's top advisers are planning to overhaul and shorten the Republican Party's platform so that it will be "in line" with the former president's "vision for America's future," according to a memo sent to the party's platform committee that was obtained by ABC News.
The memo comes as some more socially conservative RNC members -- along with some anti-abortion groups -- have expressed concern that the platform this cycle might adopt Trump's stanceon reproductive rights, which would lift the call for a 20-week federal abortion ban that is part of the current platform's language.
Trump has been clear about his opposition to a federal ban and his preference for this issue to be left up to the states.
This memo did not specifically mention abortion or reproductive rights but doubled down on the notion that the new platform will reflect Trump's political stances.
"For decades, Republicans have published textbook-long platforms that are scrutinized and intentionally misrepresented by our political opponents. The mainstream media uses their bully pulpit to perpetuate lies and misrepresentations, and the voters are often left believing we stand for something different than we actually do," the memo, sent by Trump campaign managers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles, says.
The RNC's 2016 platform, which was approved again in 2020 – both times with Trump at the helm of the party – is over 60 pages long.
"Publishing an unnecessarily verbose treatise will provide more fuel for our opponent's fire of misinformation and misrepresentation to voters. It is with that recognition that we will present a streamlined platform in line with President Trump's principled and popular vision for America's future," the memo states.
The memo was sent to Platform Committee members on Thursday.
The committee begins convening in Milwaukee on the evening of July 7, and has meetings scheduled on July 8 and 9, ahead of the RNC's convention.
Draft language for a new platform has not yet been circulated to most Platform Committee members or general RNC members yet, according to several people with the process, though a number of conversations and lobbying on the issues with Trump allies have been ongoing among leaders of key advocacy groups and with some individuals.
"The talk of changing the Republican party's pro-life platform is deeply concerning for pro-life Americans across the country. There has only been one party that is the defender of life, and if Republicans back away from this fight, there will be no one to carry on this battle," said Tim Chapman, the incoming president of former Vice President Mike Pence's nonprofit political advocacy group.
"Our expectation is that the GOP platform will continue to unequivocally call for national protections for unborn children, rooted in the 14th Amendment. Watering down the GOP platform's stance on life would entail an abandonment of its defense of the human dignity of all people," Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, said in a statement to ABC News.
