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The Texas Republican Party Saturday approved a new measure declaring President Joe Biden’s election victory in the 2020 election as illegitimate and unconstitutional. Rising from its biennial convention in Houston, the Texas GOP adopted the 40-page platform which seriously questions the legitimacy and constitutionality of the emergence of Mr Joe Biden of the Democratic Party as the winner of the polls at the time.
“We reject
the certified results of the 2020 presidential election, and we hold that
acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the
people of the United States,” the platform reads, according to The Hill.
The policy
statement also claimed that “substantial election fraud in key metropolitan
areas” seriously affect results in five states, which swung the election in
Biden’s favor. The party noted that various secretaries of state who serve as
the top elections official in many states, “illegally circumvented” state legislatures,
committing constitutional violations, The Hill reported.
“We strongly urge all Republicans to work to
ensure election integrity and to show up to vote in November of 2022, bring
your friends and family, volunteer for your local Republicans and overwhelm any
possible fraud,” the platform states, according to The Hill.
The party
platform repeated Mr Trump’s outlandish claims in the last one year after his
defeat at the polls that there was widespread voter fraud which led to his
election loss.
Speaking
with the Hill, the Texas GOP communication director said the resolution passed
by voice vote. A coalition of leading federal and state election officials said
the 2020 elections was the “most secure” in the American history, laying to
rest unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud.
Following
claims of voter fraud in the 2020 elections, several recounts and audits have
also confirmed that former President Trump lost several key states.