Moderates lose round in fight on state GOP platform
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Associated Press
Published: 7:37 am

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Republicans blocked an attempt by party moderates to push the GOP toward the center on immigration, abortion and gay rights.

The closely divided vote Sunday by a California Republican Party committee in Los Angeles marked the latest friction between conservatives and centrists over the direction of the state GOP.

Moderates pushed through a draft of the state party platform earlier this year that dropped a demand to end virtually all benefits for illegal immigrants, retreated from opposition to same-sex adoption and avoided any mention of overturning Roe v. Wade.

With a push from conservatives, a committee at the biannual California Republican convention rejected those changes to the party's current platform.

The vote was preliminary — the party will not adopt a final version of its platform until next year.

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