(NEWSnet) – The Republican National Committee has adopted its official platform for the November presidential election, with the announcement made Monday in advance of its party convention opening July 15.

Former president Donald Trump, who led the Republican primary contests, is expected to get the party’s nomination. Earlier this year, the RNC voted to install Trump’s preferences for its leadership team, including current chairman Michael Whatley and co-chair Lara Trump, his daughter-in-law.

Trump has not yet named his running mate for this year’s race, but that announcement will happen soon.

The party’s platform committee said in its statement that it has “adopted President Donald J. Trump’s 2024 Republican Party Platform with overwhelming support,” with the claim that Trump “will Make America Great Again through these America First principles.”

“Only President Trump can restore our economy, restore our Southern Border, and restore America’s standing in the world,” the chair and co-chair said in the statement.

There are 20 goals in the RNC’s official platform, listed as follows:

  1. Seal the border, and stop the migrant invasion.
  2. Carry out the largest deportation operation in American history.
  3. End inflation, and make America affordable again.
  4. Make America the dominant energy producer in the world, by far.
  5. Stop outsourcing, and turn the United States into a manufacturing superpower.
  6. Large tax cuts for workers, and no tax on tips.
  7. Defend our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, and our fundamental freedoms, including freedom of speech, freedom of religion and the right to keep and bear arms.
  8. Prevent World War Three, restore peace in Europe and in the Middle East, and build a great iron dome missile defense shield over our entire country – all made in America.
  9. End the weaponization of government against the American people.
  10. Stop the migrant crime epidemic, demolish the foreign drug cartels, crush gang violence, and lock up violent offenders.
  11. Rebuild our cities, including Washington D.C., making them safe, clean and beautiful again.
  12. Strengthen and modernize our military, making it, without question, the strongest and most powerful in the world.
  13. Keep the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency.
  14. Fight for and protect Social Security and Medicare with no cuts, including no changes to the retirement age.
  15. Cancel the electric vehicle mandate and cut costly and burdensome regulations.
  16. Cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, radical gender ideology, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children.
  17. Keep men out of women’s sports.
  18. Deport pro-Hamas radicals and make our college campuses safe and patriotic again.
  19. Secure our elections, including same day voting, voter identification, paper ballots and proof of citizenship.
  20. Unite our country by bringing it to new and record levels of success.

The Democratic National Committee has not presented its official platform as of July 9. Their convention opens Aug. 19.

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