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(CNN) --
The Texas Republican Party adopted a resolution at its state convention over the weekend rejecting President Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 election, further aligning the state party "
establishment
" with the false claims of the former president Donald Trump on the elections.
"We reject the certified results of the 2020 presidential election, and hold that incumbent President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States," said the resolution, approved by voice vote in Houston on Saturday.
"We strongly urge all Republicans to work to ensure the integrity of the election and to show up to vote in November 2022, bring your friends and family, volunteer for your local Republicans, and crack down on any potential fraud."
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Before the final resolution was passed, Brian Bodine, a platform committee member who claims to have drafted the resolution, proposed an amendment regarding the January 6, 2021, assault on the US Capitol.
He claimed that "the rights of those accused of crimes have been violated" and rejected the "narrative" that the events in the US Capitol represented an insurrection.
The proposal elicited applause and chants of "Come on Brandon."
Matt Rinaldi, chairman of the commission, ruled that the amendment was out of order and would not be considered.
The platform also included a section calling homosexuality "an abnormal lifestyle choice" and opposing "all efforts to validate transgender identity."
The state party platform is not yet finalized, James Wesolek, a spokesman for the Republican Party of Texas, told CNN, but the votes for each individual policy are being counted.
Also, during the convention, Texas Senator John Cornyn, one of the GOP's top negotiators in the bipartisan gun talks, received boos from his home state crowd after he said he had "fought and kept out of the table President Biden's wish list on guns.
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"The Democrats pushed for an assault weapons ban, I said no. They tried to get a new mandatory three-week waiting period on all gun purchases, I said no. Universal background checks, charger bans, requirements license, the list goes on and on. And I said no, no, a thousand times no," Cornyn said.
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"So, you might ask, 'What's on the table? More mental health resources, more support for our schools and making sure violent criminals and the mentally ill can't buy a gun,'" Cornyn said, as they continued. the boos.
"That primarily means enforcing the current law. That is what I have heard from many of you here today and this week, and that is what we are working on, nothing more, nothing less."
The party also almost unanimously adopted a voice vote resolution Saturday rejecting the bipartisan arms deal and reprimanding Cornyn and other GOP negotiators, including Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Susan Collins of Maine, Bill Cassidy from Louisiana, Mitt Romney from Utah, Pat Toomey from Pennsylvania, Thom Tillis from North Carolina, Rob Portman from Ohio and Roy Blunt from Missouri.
-- CNN's Michael Warren, Morgan Rimmer and Ali Zaslav contributed to this report.
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