Trump proposes scaled-back platform that softens language on abortion, same-sex marriage

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : ""We will implement measures to secure our elections, including voter ID, highly sophisticated paper ballots, proof of citizenship, and same day voting," the platform reads.
57% : Trump advisers have signaled that they wanted the new document to directly reflect the views of Trump, a break from past tradition where Republican activists are empowered to shape the document in consultation with the presumptive nominee's campaign, often resulting in language that was different in emphasis and detail than the candidate's own public statements.
50% : The document, with a long introduction in the voice of Trump, the presumptive nominee, says that existing constitutional rights to due process grants states the power "to pass laws protecting those rights.""After 51 years, because of us, that power has been given to the states and to a vote of the people," the document says, according a copy of the document obtained by The Washington Post.
47% : The 2016 platform, which Trump used in his 2020 reelection campaign, called for a constitutional amendment to affirm the constitutional due process rights of embryos and fetuses, and a national law that would ban abortion, with some exceptions, after about 20 weeks of gestation.
43% : Eight antiabortion and social conservative leaders wrote a June 10 letter to Trump demanding that the platform include support for federal legislative limits on abortion, and contain the following sentence: "We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment's protections apply to children before birth.
42% : Trump later reviewed and edited the document, the people said.
42% : "The new platform draft also removes language from 2016 condemning the U.S. Supreme Court's 2015 decision to grant same-sex couples the right to marry.
41% : The new language does not weigh in on same-sex marriage.
29% : Trump has changed his position on the issue since the Supreme Court overturned the fundamental right to the procedure in earlier stages of pregnancy.
27% : Ralph Reed, the head of the Faith and Freedom Coalition who had publicly warned Trump about changing the abortion language, thanked Trump in a statement for including language that said the due process clause of the constitution gives states the power to restrict abortion.
19% : The platform also shows how far the party has moved on trade issues under Trump.

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