Dave Weigel: For the first time in decades, the RNC won't allow cameras/media into its platform meeting. Further evolution of the Trump-era RNC's aversion to the press - they see only downsides for transparency, though this hasn't prevented damaging stories when reporters dig in www.semafor.com/article/07/0...

For the first time in decades, the RNC won't allow cameras/media into its platform meeting. Further evolution of the Trump-era RNC's aversion to the press - they see only downsides for transparency, though this hasn't prevented damaging stories when reporters dig in www.semafor.com/article/07/0...

In a shift, the RNC will decide its platform behind closed doorswww.semafor.com The decision to skip the usual cameras comes as the party is in a difficult debate over abortion.

They don’t need a platform meeting; they’ve already published it - project 2025.

Isn't their entire platform "Heil Trump"?? Isn't that literally what it was in 2020?

👹Their only platform is whatever the Mango Dictator wants.

“If you’ve done nothing wrong, you’ve got nothing to fear.” 🥺

Also, if you've done something wrong but you're invincible.

That way they can zoom with Manafort & get the wording right from the source.

He'll be there. I think he's even producing the convention again, iirc.

In 2020 they didn’t even *have* a platform, right?

They declined to update it from 2016 since they didn't want to remind people about the Muscovite anti-Ukraine plank that Paul Manafort snuck in:

Ukraine language in GOP platform underscores Trump tensionsthehill.com The absence of an updated Republican party platform for the 2020 election is allowing President Trump to avoid hard commitments on the sensitive foreign policy issue of Ukraine, where his withholdi…

If they're not allowing any media then they are literally just in there making a huge list of names of people they'll immediately kill if Trump gets into power

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damaging? uh... how, exactly?

For example, they locked media out of most stuff at a key 2022 meeting, but the big headline that came out of it was a resolution saying Jan 6 was "legitimate political discourse." Media never saw the debate over it but had the story

I guess I don't understand what the real damage was/is...

The Republicans performed very poorly in the 2022 elections.

They had a Dobbs headwind though. And with luck they'll have an even stronger U.S. v Trump headwind this year.

Oh, how very fascist of them. More proof the RNC is a subversive organization.

Dave - we'll be lucky if a member of the press isn't seriously harmed at the RNC this year, things are sliding quickly now.

They are planning on stripped down platform with NO DETAILS to be able to deny that they want to do things Americans will hate when asked. Media needs to NOT LET THEM GET AWAY WITH NON ANSWERS about policies they plan to implement if elected.

Particularly with Project 2025 already public, they'd have no excuse.

But that is not written by GOP, so they can disavow it

We need a liberal version of Project Veritas to get into these meetings. All those never-Trumpers who still have RNC bonafides could do it. Do they have the guts to?

Then again, one could just read Project 2025 and get a first look at it, maybe they think any further illumination beyond that is just gilding a particularly shitty lily.

Why are we not surprised?

Whereas Biden won't give the New York Times an interview, therefore the Opinion pages must daily shiv him until he drops out — at which point 352 articles per week will appear on how the new nominee has questionable credentials. And the Trump-era RNC aversion to the press will get minimal coverage.

They're gonna have a platform? Or is this just going to be a Trump worship gathering?

"Let's all vote for the guy whose party keeps their policies secret." This country is fucking dreadful.

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