National Federation of Republican Assemblies
American organization
The National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA) is a political organization which promotes conservative principles and candidates within the Republican Party of the United States. Members at the local, state and national levels work to recruit and elect Republican candidates who reflect the Party's conservative philosophy, and to oppose so-called "RINOs" (Republicans In Name Only), leaders and candidates who take positions to the left of the party's conservative mainstream.
History
The first Republican Assembly was founded in 1934 in California. The Republican Assembly movement grew primarily in the western part of the United States until, in 1996, the several state Republican Assemblies formalized their relationship to one another through the creation of the NFRA, which was also tasked with the establishment of state chapters in those parts of the country to which the movement had not yet spread.
In 2012, the NFRA's Presidential Preference Convention endorsed Rick Santorum for president on the fifth ballot. In 2016, it endorsed Senator Ted Cruz. In 2020 and 2024, the NFRA endorsed Donald Trump.
Prior to the 2024 United States presidential election, the NFRA adopted a resolution as part of its platform claiming that Vice President Kamala Harris was not a natural born citizen and was thus ineligible to serve as president. In support of this claim, the NFRA cited the 1857 Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which stated that people of black African descent could not be U.S. citizens.
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