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Republicans skip a platform for 2020, and delegates are basically fine with it

By Timothy P. Carney

Published August 24, 2020 1:54am ET

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Republicans skip a platform for 2020, and delegates are basically fine with it — CHARLOTTE — They used to debate things. Immigration, abortion laws, public education, federal spending, tax reform. Republicans used to have platform committee debates over these issues. No more. George Bush started to neuter the process. Mitt Romney’s people did their best to make things as white-bread and uneventful as possible. But it took Donald Trump’s […]

CHARLOTTE — They used to debate things. Immigration, abortion laws, public education, federal spending, tax reform.

Republicans used to have platform committee debates over these issues. No more.

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