The Texas Republican Party convention is an opportunity for the GOP's most devoted members to update its platform, craft its legislative priorities and elect party officers. Here are five things we’re watching for this run of the convention.
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Every two years, the convention is an opportunity for the GOP’s most devoted members to update its platform, craft its legislative priorities and elect party officers like the chair. Since they are the party's most engaged, the delegates tend to focus on issues that sometimes skew further right than the mainstream of the party.
The party faithful have ample opportunities to show how much further to the right they want Texas to go, whether it be in the platform or legislative priorities. While those things do not always hold much sway with elected officials, they are still meaningful gauges of activist sentiment — and regular fodder in primaries.
It was even unclear until earlier this month whether Abbott would sponsor the convention, a standard gesture by statewide officials. The party cleared that up June 3, when it tweeted it was “proud to announce [Abbott] as a major sponsor to the 2022 Texas GOP Convention!”The convention is taking place less than a month after the Uvalde elementary school shooting, which remains the top focus of the state’s Republican leaders day to day.
Rinaldi took his reelection campaign seriously early on, declaring his candidacy in late March with the support of over two-thirds of the State Republican Executive Committee. The list has since grown to all but several of the 64 members.
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