Sarah Posner: TL;DR evangelical heavyweights fear being shut out of platform committee and that Trump will require less draconian abortion language than what they want. They warn this could dampen evangelical voter enthusiasm for Trump (whether this part is true or not remains to be seen).

This could turn into a BFD Also: Republicans in disarray (over abortion) www.politico.com/news/2024/07...

Trump campaign blocks pair of anti-abortion activists from RNC platform committeewww.politico.com The shakeup, which has not been previously reported, comes as anti-abortion groups petition Trump, his campaign advisers and members of the RNC not to make significant changes to the party’s platform ...

TL;DR evangelical heavyweights fear being shut out of platform committee and that Trump will require less draconian abortion language than what they want. They warn this could dampen evangelical voter enthusiasm for Trump (whether this part is true or not remains to be seen).

Obviously the "evangelicals will stay home of R nominee doesn't do X" is the oldest Christian right play in the book. Plus, the base is *actually* enthusiastic about Trump, with or without the platform. Still, though, purging allies from the platform committee is ... quite a thing.

This is pretty big coalition of Christian right groups who are pissed about the platform drafting... platformintegrityproject.com

platformintegrityproject.com Platform Integrity Project

Send a mailer to every evangelical church in America saying how Trump is moving left on abortion and urge them to fight it.

I’ll take any good news right now so, thank you.

Do they not understand that their work is mostly done? They have a court that will find a case it can use to declare personhood begins at conception. What more do they need, at the federal level? Why keep trolling the electorate with a widely unpopular political agenda?

Because they don't get it, that this is a grift, and it's about power. They don't get that I believe they've lost every single popular vote (or nearly so?) on abortion since Roe was overturned. They want everyone to submit, and most people won't.

(It probably won’t)

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