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How political party platforms – like the Republicans’ Trump-inspired one for 2024 – can help voters understand American politics

  • Written by Marjorie Hershey, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Indiana University
imageThe 2024 Republican National Convention will start on July 15 in the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee.AP Photo/Morry Gash

Political parties’ platforms – their statements of where they stand on issues – get little respect. In 2020, then-President Donald Trump mused he might shrink his party’s platform from 66 pages in 2016 to just...

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