Texas GOP adopts resolution rejecting 2020 election results

“We reject the licensed results of the 2020 Presidential election, and we maintain that performing President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the individuals of the United States,” reads the resolution, handed by voice vote in Houston on Saturday. “We strongly urge all Republicans to work to make sure election integrity and to point out as much as vote in November of 2022, deliver your family and friends, volunteer on your native Republicans, and overwhelm any potential fraud.”

Before the ultimate resolution was adopted, Brian Bodine, a platform committee member who says he wrote the resolution, proposed an modification concerning the January 6, 2021, assault on the US Capitol. It asserted that the “rights of these charged with crimes have been violated” and rejected the “narrative” that occasions on the US Capitol represented an rebellion. The proposal drew applause and “Let’s go Brandon” chants. Matt Rinaldi, chairman of the committee, dominated the modification was out of order and wouldn’t be thought of.

The platform additionally included a bit calling homosexuality “an irregular life-style selection” and opposing “all efforts to validate transgender id.”

The state get together’s platform has not but been finalized, James Wesolek, a spokesperson for the Texas GOP, instructed CNN, however votes are being tallied on every particular person plank.

Also, in the course of the conference, Texas Sen. John Cornyn, a lead GOP negotiator on bipartisan gun talks, received boos from his home-state crowd after he mentioned he had “fought and stored President Biden’s gun-grabbing want listing off the desk.”

“Democrats pushed for an assault weapons ban, I mentioned no. They tried to get a brand new three-week obligatory ready interval for all gun purchases, I mentioned no. Universal background checks, journal bans, licensing necessities, the listing goes on and on and on. And I mentioned no, no, 1,000 instances no,” Cornyn mentioned.

“So, you may ask, ‘What is on the desk?’ More psychological well being assets, extra help for our faculties, and ensuring that violent criminals and the mentally in poor health can’t purchase a firearm,” Cornyn mentioned, as boos continued. “That primarily means implementing present regulation. That’s what I’ve heard from lots of you right here at the moment and this week, and that is what we’re engaged on — nothing extra, and nothing much less.”

The get together additionally practically unanimously adopted a resolution by voice vote on Saturday rejecting the bipartisan gun agreement and rebuking Cornyn and different GOP negotiators, together with Sens. 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.