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On July 12, 2016, the Republican Platform Committee completed work on a draft of the party's 2016 platform. [77] The draft platform was described as "very conservative" [78] and reflective of the party's move towards the right. [79] [80] [81] On domestic policy, the draft platform opposed abortion without exceptions.
The 2016 Republican Party Platform declares: "We support the right of the United States citizens of Puerto Rico to be admitted to the Union as a fully sovereign state. We further recognize the historic significance of the 2012 local referendum in which a 54 percent majority voted to end Puerto Rico's current status as a U.S. territory, and 61 ...
The 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump was formally launched on June 16, 2015, at Trump Tower in New York City. Trump was the Republican nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election, having won the most state primaries, caucuses, and delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. [19]
The Republican National Convention was full of fanfare this year, as Donald Trump secured the nomination to officially run as the Republican candidate for president of the United States, along with...
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The first debate was hosted by Fox News Channel, Facebook, and the Ohio Republican Party at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio – the same location as the future 2016 Republican National Convention. The two-hour debate invited the 10 highest-polling candidates, as measured by the average of the top five national polls selected by Fox.
Although Trump was the Republican nominee, he has signaled that the official party platform, adopted at the 2016 Republican National Convention, diverges from his own views. [13] According to a The Washington Post tally, Trump made some 282 campaign promises over the course of his 2016 campaign. [14]