Republican National Convention to go on despite shooting, with Trump plans unchanged

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

74% : The RNC convention could also be the showcase for Trump announcing his running mate, after months of speculation about who would get the nod.
71% : Trump, without revealing his vice presidential selection, wrote Thursday on social media that he is "looking very much forward to being in Milwaukee next week.
71% : "By now, after all of these years, everyone knows where I stand on EVERYTHING!"Trump has delivered keynote speeches at Heritage Foundation events multiple times.
65% : Trump, who has been declared "safe" by the Secret Service, posted on social media Sunday morning that he was still looking "forward to speaking to our Great Nation this week from Wisconsin.
63% : "The RNC convention could also include Trump announcing who will campaign with him at the top of the ticket.
62% : The vice presidential candidate typically gives a speech on Wednesday night, so Trump is expected to make his announcement before then.
60% : There was also little information available ahead of the convention as to the lineup and schedule of speakers in official sessions throughout the week, which culminates with the nomination of Trump on Thursday and his speech.
60% : The RNC's new platform includes familiar GOP policy goals as well as some that came along after Trump became the party's nominee eight years ago.
58% : The platform wraps in longtime party goals as well as others tied to Trump.
50% : Trump, who will be formally nominated as the GOP's presidential nominee on Thursday, still plans to attend the convention and officials stress the four-day event will go on as normal.
50% : Kevin Roberts, Heritage Foundation president, told the New York Times in April 2023 that Trump had been briefed on the project.
49% : "I think that they need to hear a message of unity and the contrast between what Republicans can accomplish on inflation and border," Boozman said.
46% : ""Thank you to everyone for your thoughts and prayers yesterday, as it was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening," Trump wrote.
46% : But it also competes with attention drawn to the Heritage Foundation's massive far-right Project 2025 policy agenda, which Trump has repeatedly disavowed.Democrats and President Joe Biden's reelection campaign have targeted the document spearheaded by former Trump administration officials -- which says the president should work with Congress on abortion policy -- as an example of an extreme GOP agenda.
46% : That previous platform also said that the RNC respected "the states' authority and flexibility to exclude abortion providers from federal programs such as Medicaid and other healthcare and family planning programs so long as they continue to perform or refer for elective abortions or sell the body parts of aborted children.
45% : Spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, in conjunction with more than 100 organizations, the policy agenda titled "Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise" presents a roadmap should Trump win in November.
42% : "Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford said the platform places a "new emphasis on the states" to regulate abortion access, largely as a result of Trump pressing for that structure in an attempt to appeal to independent voters, though Lankford said it won't bind Republicans in Congress.
42% : Conservative operatives striving to elect Trump to the White House have been circulating the 922-page Project 2025 plan for nearly 15 months.
40% : "I think they want to hear how things will be different and better, especially on the economy and border and international.
38% : Trump has shifted the GOP platform away from pressing for a nationwide law, in part, because he doesn't believe the votes are there at the moment, Lankford said.
33% : I have not seen it, have no idea who is in charge of it, and, unlike our very well received Republican Platform, had nothing to do with it," Trump wrote Thursday on his social media platform Truth Social.
28% : His last running mate, Pence, began distancing himself from Trump after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, which included calls from the mob to kill Pence, and the construction of a scaffold for public hangings on the National Mall.
20% : Trump and his campaign deny any connection to the project.
15% : As of Friday, Trump had not revealed his pick, though speculation centered around Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum.

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