Texas Republican Party calls Biden’s 2020 win illegitimate
WASHINGTON — The Texas Republican Convention, in a new party resolution that delegates approved this weekend at the state convention in Houston, said President Joe Biden was not only illegitimately elected in 2020 but that he is merely the “acting” president.
“We reject the certified results of the 2020 Presidential election, and we hold that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States,” reads the resolution in the party’s document detailing its new resolutions and platform points.
The resolution, which was approved by delegates — nearly 5,000, the party said — in a voice vote, claims the 2020 election violated the Constitution. Multiple secretaries of state “illegally circumvented their state legislatures in conducting their elections in multiple ways,” it reads, and “substantial election fraud in key metropolitan areas” warped the results in Biden’s favor.
In response, the party encourages all Republicans to “work to ensure election integrity and to show up to vote in November 2022, bring your friends and family, volunteer for your local Republicans, and overwhelm any possible fraud.”
White House national security spokesman John Kirby
responded Tuesday, saying “the president is the democratically elected commander in chief, and the men and women in uniform understand that.”
And, Kirby added, “with the exception of a small number of folks there in Texas, the American people recognize that and understand that.”
The Texas GOP’S rejection of election results that have been checked, re-checked and certified as legitimate many times reflects former President Donald Trump’s lasting influence on red states and Republican voters across the country.
“The Texas Republican Party is raising record funds for election integrity, and we’ve made election integrity a top priority to ensure Texas never goes the way of Pennsylvania, Georgia or Arizona,” Republican Party of Texas Chairman Matt Rinaldi said in a prepared statement Monday. “We refuse to let Democrats rig the elections in 2022 or 2024.”
Trump’s unyielding insistence that the 2020 election was stolen from him — and his various attempts to discredit the results — have been the subject of renewed focus since the special House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol
went public for the first time with its findings.
In addition to the resolution rejecting the election’s certified results, convention delegates approved more than 270 platform planks, including two on an issue
as old as the state itself: secession.
“Pursuant to Article 1, Section 1, of the Texas Constitution, the federal government has impaired our right of local self-government,” the platform plank reads.