Trump-backed Republican platform tempers language on abortion

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Trump called into the platform committee meeting on Monday and spoke to its members for about 15 to 20 minutes, said Ben Proto, a committee member from Connecticut, where he serves as the party's state chair.
50% : The Republican Party released its platform on Monday that denies anti-abortion activists within the party the far-reaching language they sought on abortion and embraces the views of its presidential candidate, Donald Trump.
46% : Trump has campaigned to eliminate Chinese Communist Party purchases of U.S. farmland and has promised to root out Chinese ownership of U.S. companies involved in critical sectors like energy, pharmaceuticals and telecommunications.
44% : Trump has portrayed himself as a champion for crypto, including at a San Francisco fundraiser in June with tech executives during which he slammed Democrats' attempts to regulate the crypto sector.
42% : Perkins was among a group of social conservatives that last month sent Trump a letter asking him to preserve language from past platforms that called for "a human life amendment to the Constitution and legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment's protections apply to children before birth.
39% : The platform, which is not binding, also pledges that Trump and Republicans will build a missile defense shield over the United States, carry out "the largest deportation in American history" of people in the country illegally, make permanent Trump's signature tax cuts and pass "large tax cuts for workers" while demolishing foreign drug cartels, protecting Medicare and Social Security benefits, and supporting public funds being used for private school tuition.

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