Milwaukee wants the DNC back in 2024...

[brooklynite]

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[LakeArenal]

1. Me too

[brooklynite]

2. I visited Milwaukee in 2019, and am not sure if the scale is enough for a national Convention...

As I recall, some delegations were going to be housed in hotels at O'Hare airport (90 minutes away)

[StevieM]

4. We had other priorities when choosing Milwaukee. See my post just below. (eom)

[LakeArenal]

5. I say as the letter suggests.

Japan kept Olympics, Milwaukee should have its chance to host the convention.

Wisconsin Blue is hanging by a thread. We need that convention.

[StevieM]

3. The main reason they got the convention in 2020 is because we felt we had to pretend

that we completely ignored the state in 2016. The media was demanding that we validate that phony narrative.

Hillary spent more money in advertising in Wisconsin than Obama did in 2012. She had a larger ground operation there then Obama had in 2012. What they actually mean is that she didn't hold any rallies there after the primaries (although Tim Kaine did) because she was ahead by double digits in the polls so instead she went where the race was closer. The media did not say a word about that during the election, even though her schedule was obviously known to them

If you want to say that she should have held some rallies there, and not just sent her running mate, then fine. But that is a very different criticism then the one that people made in the aftermath of the election. And it was the fictitious story about Wisconsin being ignored that led, in large part, to the decision to pick Milwaukee for the convention.

As for where to hold the 2024 convention, I think we should take a look at Pittsburgh.

[dsc]

6. that is a smaller city than Milwaukee

and has nothing near it so I highly doubt that there are anything like enough hotel rooms there if Milwaukee doesn't have enough.

[StevieM]

7. That is a perfectly reasonable point of view.

I thought I had heard that they had more hotel rooms in Pittsburgh and the surrounding areas than in many other comparably sized cities. Here is an article about it from the last time they considered bidding.

https://archive.triblive.com/news/cost-to-host-democratic-national-convention-in-pittsburgh-could-be-60m/

In probably makes sense to return to the west. Maybe Denver or Salt Lake City. They have relatively nice summers. Not too humid.

[TheRealNorth]

10. The some of the same people complaining about the heat and humidity in Milwaukee...

Wanted it in Miami

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. We dodged a bullet by not having full convention in Milwaukee

The Texas delegations was going to be at a hotel next to O'Hare airport and have 3 hour round trip bus ride each day

[TheRealNorth]

9. It would be cool to have Milwaukee get the convention...

Because they didn't "really" get to have the convention last year. I could see maybe doing Atlanta or Phoenix in 2024 and back to Milwaukee in 2028.