Texas GOP Convention Tests Unity as Factional Rifts Emerge
TL;DR
At the Houston Texas GOP convention, leaders urged unity against Democrats, but internal friction surfaced as delegates ousted the party chair, booed top officials, and pushed a hard-right platform that includes anti-Islam measures and Christian nationalist language, while debates over data centers and tort reform highlighted ongoing rifts.
- Texas GOP leaders professed unity at convention. Will it hold? The Texas Tribune
- Texas Republicans add bans on IVF and Sharia law to their party platform Houston Chronicle
- To Defeat Democrats, Texas Governor Embraces the Hard Right The New York Times
- Texas GOP Chair Abraham George ousted by second-in-command D’rinda Randall chron.com
- Texas’s GOP platform is getting more extreme — and influential The Washington Post
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