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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRNC evaluating new cities for Trump convention acceptance speech (per Axios)
("official business" of Convention would remain in Charlotte under existing isolation rules)
Jacksonville
Phoenix
Dallas
Nashville
Atlantic
New Orleans
Savannah
greymattermom
(5,751 posts)JHB
(37,152 posts)JHB
(37,152 posts)And he can spend a lot less money because they'll cost a lot less paying them to attend it, like he does here in this country.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)4139
(1,893 posts)The other day I was in here discussing how major and big cities are all Democratic....Jacksonville is probably the biggest red city there is
Siwsan
(26,241 posts)Although I do suspect this speech might end up in a meltdown of EPIC proportions.
essme
(1,207 posts)close enough to Mara whateverthenameofthatplaceis-
Enough nuts down there to "fill a stadium" for him. Lots of photo ops.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Can't quite remember...
Zorro
(15,721 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)wrong, don't do it - gathering of thousands . . . NO .. ..
Republicans - I am superior . .
Sgent
(5,857 posts)no way our governor and mayor are going to give the all clear with no face masks, etc. -- same problem as VA.
hatrack
(59,564 posts)Hey, it was good enough for the Great God Reagan so that he could comfort those poor, oppressed Dixiecrats.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,137 posts)As in some barge out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean?
Id actually support that.
Baclava
(12,047 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,009 posts)are being culled and likely without masks, over three days, during a pandemic?
You don't believe that not a single participant at the Republican Convention won't sue for contracting Covid-19, do you?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Vogon_Glory
(9,109 posts)maxrandb
(15,287 posts)Would save us a lot in travel costs for the human rights trials.
bluedigger
(17,085 posts)gibraltar72
(7,498 posts)hlthe2b
(102,096 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)i.e. underwater
tinrobot
(10,882 posts)It's far from blue areas and hard for protesters to get there.
If they want the confrontation, then New Orleans, Atlantic City, Phoenix, maybe a few others.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,137 posts)And Jacksonville actually voted for a Democratic Governor and Senator in 2018, so it's not really the safe space Trumpists might think it is.
spanone
(135,774 posts)Thank you Mayor
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)"There's not enough money in the world to persuade us to have it here."