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* Silent on [[data center]]s
 
* Silent on [[data center]]s
 
* Only rejects [[gambling]] "as a means to balance the budget or increase spending"<ref>https://nh.gop/platform/</ref>
 
* Only rejects [[gambling]] "as a means to balance the budget or increase spending"<ref>https://nh.gop/platform/</ref>
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== Vermont GOP ==
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The Vermont Republican Party adopted its current platform at its platform convention on May 30, 2026, the delegates having gathered in Randolph.<ref>https://vtgop.org/party-platform/</ref><ref>https://vtgopmondaymessage.substack.com/p/two-visions-for-vermont-a-contrast</ref>  At roughly five hundred words across a preamble, nine brief headings, and a conclusion, it is the shortest platform surveyed here, briefer even than North Dakota's.
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=== Strengths ===
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* Opens on the Declaration of Independence and the Creator as the source of unalienable rights, and closes by affirming "one nation under God"
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* Defends Vermont's longstanding tradition of school choice
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* Endorses religious protection for every healthcare worker
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* Names the family as the fundamental institution on which society rests
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* Insists that government be administered transparently and without political bias
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=== Weaknesses ===
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* Silent on [[data center]]s
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* Silent on [[gambling]] in every form, predatory or otherwise
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* Merely affirms the inherent value of human life in a single clause. Does not mention abortion, the [[abortion pill]], or [[fetal personhood]]
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* '''''Contains no mention whatever of the Second Amendment or the right to keep and bear arms'''''
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* Does not define marriage, or mention it
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* Silent on [[ranked choice voting]], [[term limits]], and a [[Con Con]]
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* Says nothing about who may vote in Republican primaries
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== Florida GOP ==
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The Republican Party of Florida does not publish a platform written by Florida delegates.  Its website offers a mission statement praising freedom, liberty, personal responsibility, and accountability, followed by a Reagan quotation, and nothing more.<ref>https://florida.gop/about/</ref>  The party instead follows the national Republican platform.<ref>https://ballotpedia.org/Republican_Party_of_Florida</ref>  Florida is thus the largest state surveyed here and the only one whose delegates write nothing of their own; the 2024 national document it defers to runs sixteen pages across ten chapters.<ref>https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/2024-republican-party-platform</ref>
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=== Strengths ===
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* The national platform's seventh promise defends the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to keep and bear arms
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* Chapter Eight promotes a culture valuing the sanctity of marriage and the foundational role of families
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* Chapter Seven endorses universal school choice in every state, supports homeschooling families equally, restores parental rights, and champions the right to pray and read the Bible in school
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* Chapter Seven also closes the federal Department of Education and returns schooling to the states
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* Chapter Nine defends religious liberty and creates a federal task force on anti-Christian bias
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* Separately from the platform, the Republican Party of Florida Executive Board unanimously resolved in 2024 to oppose the state constitutional amendments on abortion and on recreational marijuana<ref>https://florida.gop/fl_amendments_positions/</ref>
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=== Weaknesses ===
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* '''''There is no Florida platform at all''''', and so nothing that Florida delegates may be held to, amended, or measured against
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* The national platform names abortion a single time, and leaves the matter to the states rather than protecting the unborn child directly
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* Does not criminalize possession or use of the [[abortion pill]], and does not adopt [[fetal personhood]] outright
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* Says nothing of [[gambling]], sports betting, or prediction markets, an omission of some weight in a state with an enormous wagering compact
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* Silent on [[data center]]s
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* Silent on [[vaccine choice]] and on medical conscientious objection
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* Silent on a [[Con Con]], on [[term limits]], and on [[ranked choice voting]]
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* Invokes the sanctity of marriage without ever defining it as the union of one man and one woman, unlike the Oklahoma platform
    
== References ==
 
== References ==
 
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[[category:Republican Party]]
 
[[category:Republican Party]]
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