Trump wants decision within a week from North Carolina on Republican convention

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON, May 26 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper needs to decide within a week whether the Republican National Convention can take place with full attendance in North Carolina in late August as planned.

"We need a fast decision from the governor," Trump told reporters at the White House. "If he feels that he's not going to do it, all he has to do is tell us and then we'll have to pick another location, and I will tell you a lot of locations want it."

The convention is set to start on Aug. 24 in Charlotte. (Reporting by Jeff Mason and Makini Brice; Writing by Daphne Psaledakis; Editing by Tim Ahmann)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/newselections2019map/trump-wants-decision-within-a-week-from-north-carolina-on-republican-convention/ar-BB14D8Da?li=BBnb7Kz

Here's your answer.

[Marie Marie]

1. Tee Hee - Trump is soooo afraid of small crowds - like at his inauguration.

[Totally Tunsie]

2. Oh hell...I want a fully-packed Repug convention

wherever it may be held - all the fewer MAGAt voters come November.

[gratuitous]

3. "If you had gotten it in gear faster, Donald . . ."

You have only yourself to blame for the chaotic situation your party finds itself in.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

4. A Charlotte Observer editorial says......

Call the president’s bluff, Gov. Cooper. Tell him no on RNC 2020.
By the Editorial Board
Charlotte Observer
May 26, 2020 08:12 AM

Read it here: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/editorials/article242978726.html

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The president, in a series of tweets Monday, delivered an ultimatum of sorts on the convention, saying he would be “reluctantly forced” to move it unless the governor guaranteed “full attendance” at the Spectrum Center. On Tuesday, Trump gave Cooper a week to decide.

Trump has a bit of a point. The president and his party are about to invest a lot of political and real capital into the convention without knowing if it actually will happen. North Carolina is still on the wrong side of the COVID-19 curve, and the state is currently allowing only 10 people to gather indoors in Phase 2 of its reopening. Even a regularly bankrupt businessman can see that it’s a risky venture to plan for 50,000 people in Charlotte three months from now without some assurances that Cooper won’t change the locks at the last minute.

But if the president wants a guarantee right now, Cooper should call his bluff with the only answer he can provide right now: No.

The alternative – giving an unqualified nod to the convention – is untenable. No one, including Trump and Cooper, knows what COVID-19 will look like late this summer. It’s possible North Carolina could see the kind of coronavirus progress that allows for a large-scale indoor event to be safely held here. It’s just as possible that loosening restrictions in May and June could result in a spike of infections in July and August, and that the convention will be unsafe for Charlotte and its global guests.

KY...........

[Roland99]

5. Wish in one hand, sh*t in the other

See which fills up first

[BGBD]

6. IDK what he thinks he can do

It would essentially be impossible to put this thing together in another city at this point.

In any case, it's probably like the Olympics this year in that whatever city holds the RNC is going to lose money on the deal.

1: It's going to cost the city a fortune on security alone. They are going to have to deploy their entire police force and call in reinforcements from other State and Local agencies, probably along with the NC NG as well. That will be for the regular security around this even on top of the sure Nazi/Antifa clashes that are going to happen.

2: They are going to have to enforce social distancing guidelines, so the huge crowds that normally roll int these conferences won't be able to come. Instead it'll be delegates and RNC officials. So it won't draw as much spending as usual.

3: Businesses in the area will have to close for the week because of the security issues. The Spectrum Center sits smack dab in the middle of Downtown Charlotte. The 3-square blocks to the immediate Northwest of the building contain almost all of the high rise buildings in the city. Access and parking to downtown will have to be restricted during the convention. Also, the main public transportation hub in the city is across the street, so that likely to be jammed up as well.

4: You know there is no chance that Trump will ever reimburse the city for the costs they incur during the convention. He won't even pay for costs associated with his trips to mar a lago.

[struggle4progress]

7. Tell him to go ahead and hold the RNC at Trump National Doral, if that's really what

he's set his mind on, bless his heart. He doesn't really pay any attention to anybody else anyway, unless he is blaming them for something he himself did or is doing or is planning to do --- so there's just no point in playing my-tantrum-is-bigger-than-yours with him

[Rstrstx]

8. WHO'S going to take them?

Really, is there a big city that's so bat-shit oblivious that they'll welcome a bunch of big city folk from all over the country with open arms and no masks?

Even the most deranged, most Trumpian of towns will have serious reservations, the citizens would revolt. Their darling little glittered posters they hold up may say it's all a hoax but when a bunch of New Yorkers start booking a week in town they're going to have a change of heart real quick.

But what other kind of outcome should you expect when you've spent four years deliberately pitching one part of the country up against another?

[VOX]

9. Florida and Georgia (surprise) have volunteered.

There’s no shortage of lunatics who’d walk into an alligator pit for their insane, atavistic “Dear Leader.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/us/politics/republican-convention-trump.amp.html
In Audacious Move, Georgia and Florida Governors Offer to Host G.O.P. Convention
The party is still contractually obligated to hold the event in North Carolina, but President Trump has threatened a change of location as the state’s Democratic governor urges caution because of the coronavirus.
The New York Times
May 26, 2020
By Maggie Astor
The governors of Georgia and Florida, seizing on a tweet from President Trump, made an audacious move on Tuesday, offering their states’ hosting services for the Republican National Convention, which the party is contractually obligated to hold in Charlotte, N.C.

That contract was signed nearly two years ago, and moving a 50,000-person, multimillion-dollar event less than three months before it happens would be extraordinary.

But Mr. Trump — in contrast to the host committee that is coordinating the event — threatened on Monday to move the convention unless Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina provided a “guarantee” that there would be no coronavirus-related restrictions on the size of the event. And Mr. Cooper, a Democrat, refused to do so.
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[Rstrstx]

10. The state may want them but the cities will turn them down

You think Atlanta or Orlando would be willing to host?

[spanone]

11. The governor should tell trump to shove his convention up his ample ass.

[MoonRiver]

12. Nobody cares what IT says.