 The biggest issue outlined is abortion. The proposed platform backing the rights of states to make their own abortion laws after promoting a constitutional ban back in 2016. The RNC did not release a platform in 2020. In Texas, barrels killed at least two people now after making landfall today as a hurricane. One of those people was Haley Laredo's 74-year-old mother-in-law who died after a tree fell on their home near Houston.