德克萨斯州共和党本周末正式“斥责”多名共和党参议员，包括他们自己的一名参议员，因为他们帮助领导了新枪支立法的两党谈判。
周六在休斯顿举行的该州大会上通过的决议，驳回了参议院上周宣布的妥协，该妥协得到了至少10名共和党人的阻挠支持。
“我们拒绝所谓的‘两党枪支协议’，我们谴责参议员约翰·科宁(得克萨斯州共和党)、托姆·蒂利斯(北卡罗来纳州共和党)、罗伊·布朗特(密苏里州共和党)。)，比尔卡西迪(R-La。)、苏珊·科林斯(缅因州共和党)、林赛·格拉汉姆1601(南卡罗来纳州共和党)、罗布·波特曼(俄亥俄州共和党)、米特·罗姆尼(犹他州共和党)和帕特·图米(宾夕法尼亚州共和党)。)，”决议写道。
党的警告在一定程度上反映了，国会围绕枪支采取行动的困难，考虑到在高度保守的圈子里的一些反对意见。该州共和党的回应是在科宁周五在大会上发言时也被人群嘘了。
科尔宁站出来帮助领导两党围绕适度枪支改革的谈判德克萨斯州乌瓦尔迪的小学枪击案在那里，19名学生和两名教师丧生。致力于立法的两党参议员小组宣布初步商定的框架6月12日，这将增加对学校安全和心理健康的资金投入，并要求加强对18至21岁学生的背景调查，支持各州颁布的“红旗”法律。
该协议不包括民主党人和总统乔·拜登支持的更全面的限制，如提高攻击性武器的法定购买年龄。
工作继续讨论法案的最终文本众议院和参议院的领导人誓言，如果共和党人继续留在船上，就进行快速投票，并希望本周将文本提交参议院。
德克萨斯州共和党执行委员会成员之一特里·哈珀(Terry Harper)投票反对批评科宁等人的决议，甚至试图将其删除，尽管他对围绕可能的枪支协议进行的谈判持怀疑态度。
“我并不总是赞同我选出来的官员所做的事情，但他们是我选出来的官员。这有点像婚姻。哈珀在接受美国广播公司采访时说:“我已经结婚45年了，我们并不总是意见一致，但我们不会因此而分手。”。
哈珀在接受美国广播公司新闻采访时继续说道:“当他们发出嘘声时，一切都有点刺耳和尴尬。”。
在周六的大会上，德克萨斯州共和党还增加了一系列关于LGBTQ问题的立场，作为他们通过的平台的一部分，他们正式继续对拜登2020年选举胜利的有效性提出质疑，这种质疑源于前总统唐纳德·特朗普对选举欺诈的毫无根据的指控。
代表共和党中LGBTQ群体的团体“木屋共和党人”在活动中被拒绝提供展位。(小组后来分享他们说，一份声明来自小唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump Jr .)，批评他们被排除在外。)
截至周日，该缔约国在网上发布的新平台称，“同性恋是一种不正常的生活方式选择”，并且作为一个政党，“我们反对所有验证变性人身份的努力。”该党还表示，反对针对21岁及以下变性人的各种医学治疗，包括所谓的“青春期阻滞剂”、激素疗法和手术。
德克萨斯州共和党对同性恋和跨性别群体的最新立场是，全国各地的保守派越来越多地重新关注LGBTQ问题，特别是当它们与儿童相关时，包括禁止跨性别儿童的医疗保健和课堂上对性和性别的讨论。
该党的纲领在本周末获得通过后，迅速受到LGBTQ倡导者的广泛批评，一些人说，这可能预示着更广泛的歧视。
泄露的意见草案表明，最高法院将很快推翻罗伊诉韦德案，拜登认为，高等法院接下来可能会减少对同性恋和变性人的保护，或推翻其他重大先例，如国家对同性婚姻的保障。(该意见的草案显示，法院多数坚持其对堕胎的裁决不会影响其他案件。)
凭借其新平台，德克萨斯州共和党还继续推动2020年虚假选举的叙事，并表示他们不相信拜登是合法当选的-尽管在关键的战场州有任何证据和多次重新计票和审计。
作为该党的旗手，特朗普继续抨击他输掉的竞选，并提拔那些希望推翻它的人，支持各种地方和州官员谁将很快掌权监督下一次选举。
在本月1月6日正在进行的众议院委员会听证会上，特朗普核心圈多名成员的证词显示，他们私下里多次拒绝了他的主张，包括前司法部长比尔·巴尔。
今年早些时候，美国广播公司新闻/益普索民意调查发现，65%的美国人认为拜登是合法当选的，尽管这一数字有明显的党派分歧，近四分之三的共和党人认为相反。
德克萨斯州共和党人政纲的最终版本将在未来几天公布。成员们分别对平台的每个部分进行了投票，投票仍在统计中，尽管缔约国的工作人员告诉美国广播公司新闻，预计不会有重大变化，文件的部分内容在最终投票中失败的情况很少。对科宁的指责是一项以口头表决方式通过的决议。
Texas GOP 'rebukes' Republicans working on gun deal, declares opposition to gay and trans people
The Texas Republican Party this weekend formally "rebuked" multiple GOP senators, including one of their own, for helping lead bipartisan negotiations on new gun legislation.
The resolution, adopted at the state's convention on Saturday in Houston, dismissed the Senate compromise announced last week that had the filibuster-proof support of at least 10 Republicans.
"We reject the so called 'bipartisan gun agreement,' and we rebuke Senators John Cornyn (R-Texas), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lindsey Graham 1601 (R-S.C.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Mitt Romney (R-Utah) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.)," the resolution reads.
The party's admonishment reflects, in part,the difficulty of congressional action around guns, given some opposition in highly conservative circles. The state GOP's response followed Cornyn being booed, too, by the crowd while speaking at the convention on Friday.
Cornyn stepped up to help lead bipartisan negotiations around modest gun reforms followingthe elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 students and two teachers were killed. The bipartisan group of senators working on the legislation announcedan initial agreed-upon frameworkon June 12 that would increase funding for school safety and mental health as well as require enhanced background checks for 18 to 21-year-olds and support "red flag" laws enacted by states.
The agreement did not include more sweeping restrictions backed by Democrats and President Joe Biden, like raising the legal buying age for assault-style weapons.
Workcontinues on final text of the bill, with leaders in the House and Senate vowing quick votes if Republicans remain onboard -- with hopes to bring text to the floor of the Senate this week.
Terry Harper, one of the members of the executive committee for Texas's GOP, voted against the resolution criticizing Cornyn and others -- and even tried to get it taken out -- though he is skeptical of the negotiations around a possible deal on guns.
"I don't always approve of what my elected officials do, but they are my elected officials. It's kind of like marriage. I've been married for 45 years, and we don't always agree, but we don't part the sheets over it," Harper told ABC News.
"It was all just a little harsh and embarrassing when they booed," Harper continued in a phone call with ABC News.
At Saturday's convention, the Texas GOP also added a series of positions on LGBTQ issues as part of their adopted platform and they officially continued to cast doubts on the validity of Biden's 2020 election victory, rooted in former President Donald Trump's baseless claims of election fraud.
The Log Cabin Republicans, a group representing the LGBTQ community in the Republican Party, was denied space for a booth at the event. (The grouplater shareda statement they said was from Donald Trump Jr. that criticized their exclusion.)
The state party's new platform as posted online as of Sunday states that "homosexuality is an abnormal lifestyle choice" and that, as a party, "We oppose all efforts to validate transgender identity." The party also said it opposed various medical treatments for transgender people who are 21 and younger including so-called "puberty blockers," hormone therapy and surgery.
The Texas GOP's latest position on the gay and transgender community comes as conservatives across the country have increasingly refocused on LGBTQ issues, particularly as they relate to children – including bans on transgender kids' medical care and discussions of sexuality and gender in classrooms.
The party's platform was quickly and widely criticized by LGBTQ advocates after it was adopted this weekend, with some saying it could herald broader discrimination.
Following the leaked draft opinion suggesting the Supreme Court will soon overturn Roe v. Wade, Biden argued the high court could next reduce protections for gay and transgender people or reverse other major precedents, such as the national guarantee to same-sex marriage. (The draft of that opinion shows the court majority insisting its ruling on abortion would not affect other cases.)
With its new platform, the Texas GOP also continued to push the narrative of a false 2020 election and said they did not believe Biden was legitimately elected -- despite any evidence and multiple recounts and audits in key battleground states.
Trump, as the party standard-bearer, has continued to assail the race he lost and promoted those who wish to overturn it, backing various local and state officialswho could soon be in chargeof overseeing the next elections.
During this month's ongoing Jan. 6 committee hearings in the House, testimony from multiple members of Trump's inner circle showed how they repeatedly rejected his claims in private, including former Attorney General Bill Barr.
An ABC News/Ipsos poll earlier this year found that 65 percent of Americans believed Biden was legitimately elected, though that number had sharp a partisan divide with nearly three-quarters of Republicans believing the opposite.
The final version of the Texas Republicans' platform will be posted in the coming days. Members voted on each part of the platform separately and votes are still being tallied, though staff with the state party told ABC News that no major changes are expected and it is rare for portions of the document to fail in the final vote. The rebuke of Cornyn was a resolution passed by voice vote.
