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FIRST ON FOX: Former Vice President Mike Pence’s conservative assume tank is looking out what it says is a major shift to the left over the past a number of a long time.
“During the last 50 years, the Democratic Get together has more and more deserted abnormal Individuals for its most radical fringe,” reads a brand new memo from Advancing American Freedom (AAF) launched forward of the Democratic Nationwide Conference in Chicago subsequent week.
“Here’s a pattern of positions that Democrats held to of their previous social gathering platforms, at the same time as they assault Republicans for believing most of the identical issues in the present day,” the memo stated. “With the subsequent social gathering conference scheduled for August 2024, there may be nonetheless time for Democrats to revive themselves as a celebration of moderation.”
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Former Vice President Mike Pence’s group is highlighting the distinction between the Democratic Nationwide Committee’s present and previous stances. (Getty Photographs)
The group famous that Pence himself was as soon as a Democrat till altering his registration in 1983. “President Ronald Reagan was a registered Democrat till 1962,” it added.
In response to AAF’s coverage director John Shelton, the Democratic Get together has “indisputably” shifted extra through the years than the Republican Get together has. The group launched an analogous memo final month wanting on the modifications within the Republican Nationwide Conference platform.
“Their platform was an entire rejection of what the social gathering as soon as was,” he stated in an interview with Fox Information Digital.
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The group highlights previous stances of the Democratic Get together on a number of points to display the stark modifications. On abortion, Pence’s group recalled earlier DNC platforms within the Eighties and Nineteen Nineties that acknowledged “the spiritual and moral issues” about abortion and said their purpose to make the process “uncommon.”
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The Democratic Nationwide Conference is ready to happen subsequent week in Chicago. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune Information Service by way of Getty Photographs)
Shelton pointed to abortion and unlawful immigration as the highest two points that the social gathering has shifted on essentially the most.
AAF’s memo highlighted sturdy language towards unlawful immigration utilized by the DNC in 1996, stating they “can not tolerate” it and “should cease it.”
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The DNC platform on the time additionally learn, “In 1992, our borders would possibly as properly not have existed. The border was under-patrolled, and what patrols there have been, had been under-equipped. Medication flowed freely. Unlawful immigration was rampant. Legal immigrants, deported after committing crimes in America, returned the very subsequent day to commit crimes once more.”
AAF claimed the Democratic Get together “has jettisoned a broad, bipartisan consensus on the vital problems with the day.” The group additional criticized media protection that has portrayed the Republican Get together as “extremists,” given the Democrats’ shift.
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Julia Johnson is a politics author for Fox Information Digital and Fox Enterprise, main protection of the U.S. Senate. She was beforehand a politics reporter on the Washington Examiner.
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