As delegates get down to business on crafting the Republican platform this week, Kansas Secretary of State Kris W. Kobach says he’s nearly a 100 percent sure the platform will include Donald Trump’s U.S.-Mexico border wall.
“I’m 99.9 percent sure that that will be in the platform,” Mr. Kobach said Monday on “Fox and Friends.”
“Republicans have generally for many years, going all the way back to when Congress voted on this back in 2006, have been in favor of a wall, and I think you’re going to see something in our platform that says a real wall,” Mr. Kobach said.
“Not a fake wall made of sensors, but a real, physical barrier,” Mr. Kobach said. “And that’s going to be a great contrast to what the Democrats have [because] they stand for pretty much an open borders policy.”
Mr. Kobach told The Washington Times he thinks the wall needs to be in the platform, saying he doesn’t see it as “remotely controversial.”
He did note, though, that the development of the document is an “organic” process.
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“There’s 112 people here in Cleveland [that] today and tomorrow can amend it, can change it — it depends on the vote of those people,” he said on Fox.
• David Sherfinski can be reached at dsherfinski@washingtontimes.com.
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