“…Various Republican Party positions have been researched, including their positions on abortion (Abramowitz, 1995;Bridge, 2016;McKeegan, 1993), defense (Ecer & Veasey, 2015;Holsti, 2002;Kriesberg et al, 1982), religion (Conger, 2010;Cronin, 2022;Kirdiş, 2019), taxes (Boudreau & MacKenzie, 2018;Smith, 2021), and welfare (Lelkes & Sniderman, 2016;McMahon, 2008). Textual analysis has examined aspects of the Republican Party, including the influence of the Open Journal of Political Science Tea Party (King, 2017;Schnabel, 2014), overarching shifts in party platforms (Motyl, 2012), and the coverage by Fox News (Bard, 2017;Peck, 2014).…”