Trump pushes new GOP platform softening party's positions on abortion and same-sex marriage

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : That was the result of a concerted effort by Trump to simplify and streamline the party's policy platform.
49% : "On same-sex marriage, the Trump-aligned platform committee also approved changes opposed by social conservative in the party.
47% : "Fights over how to handle changes to both abortion and same-sex marriage dominated the lead-up to the GOP changing its national policy platform, something that generally happens every four years alongside presidential elections.
37% : Social conservatives pushed to retain the platform's old language promoting an abortion ban and opposing same-sex marriage, but they lost as the politics surrounding both have changed over the years.
36% : Critics have panned some of the project's proposals, and the Biden campaign has repeatedly sought to tie Trump to it.
34% : "I know nothing about Project 2025," Trump wrote in a social media post.
32% : "Most pastors I know don't want Biden and will still probably vote for Trump, but this hurts the energy needed for those folks to do the things it takes to help elect a president.
29% : At the urging of former President Donald Trump and his allies, the Republican Party is set to abandon a decadeslong push for a federal abortion ban and soften its stance on same-sex marriage in its platform, according to changes made in a draft policy platform passed Monday morning ahead of next week's Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
19% : "What was put out today was not a platform, it was a cheap, in-all-caps admission Trump and his campaign want to hide from his dangerous Project 2025 agenda to make Trump a dictator on day one, destroy our system of checks and balances, cut Social Security, ban abortion and worse.
11% : Trump said earlier this year that abortion should remain a state policy issue, after the Supreme Court's 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade, and Trump's White House said during his administration that he supported same-sex marriage.

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