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In politics of the United States, party switching is any change in party affiliation of a partisan public figure, usually one who holds an elected office. Use of the term "party switch" can also connote a transfer of holding power in an elected governmental body from one party to another.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -January brings several consequential dates for the U.S. Congress as Republicans consolidate power as a result of last November's elections with full control of the Senate ...
Trump registered as a Republican in Manhattan in 1987; since that time, he has changed his party affiliation five times. In 1999, he changed his party affiliation to the Independence Party of New York. In August 2001, Trump changed his party affiliation to Democratic. In September 2009, he changed his party affiliation back to the Republican Party.
The 1992 Republican Party platform adopted support for continuing to exclude homosexuals from the military as a matter of good order and discipline. [100] The support for the exclusion of homosexuals from military service would remain in the Republican Party platform until the 2012 Republican Party platform, which removed that language from it ...
2016 Republican Party platform. Democrats argue that the platform change was a meaningless move designed to paper over Republicans’ concerted efforts to reduce rights for gay, lesbian and trans ...
The policy platform is divided into nine chapters, emphasizing the party's top issues, including lowering costs, fighting climate change and gun violence, and strengthening democracy.
The party's 2012 platform calls for an "all of the above" energy policy including clean energy, natural gas, and domestic oil, while wanting to become energy independent. [26] The party has supported higher taxes on oil companies and increased regulations coal power plants, favoring a policy of reducing long-term reliance on fossil fuels.
The Texas Republican Party rejected the results of the 2020 election, labeled being gay as “abnormal” and vowed to protect access to guns in its platform and corresponding resolutions.