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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPOLITICO Playbook: Trump won't get the convention he wants
PoliticoDESPITE WHAT PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP WANTS, the idea of a large-scale, celebratory 2020 political convention is a fantasy.
-- IF YOURE A COMPANY, a law firm or a lobby shop, why would you ever consider putting any money behind a political convention this year? Would you want your logo anywhere near Jacksonville, Fla., or Milwaukee during Covid-19? Would you want your executives anywhere close to a gathering that has a chance to be a super-spreading event? Would you throw a party? Youd have to be nuts.
-- SENATORS are saying no thanks. FIVE SENATE REPUBLICANS taking a pass on the RNC convention this summer: SUSAN COLLINS (R-Maine), per CBS CAITLIN HUEY-BURNS; LISA MURKOWSKI (R-Alaska), per CBS ELEANOR WATSON; MITT ROMNEY (R-Utah), per WaPos MICHAEL SCHERER and JOSH DAWSEY. CHUCK GRASSLEY (R-Iowa) and LAMAR ALEXANDER (R-Tenn.) previously bowed out.
-- TV NETWORKS are vowing to stay away.
-- READ MARC CAPUTO and GARY FINEOUT on this topic: Trumps convention bash upended by Floridas coronavirus crisis. Perhaps most importantly: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a close Trump ally, refused to say on Tuesday whether he would lift a rule mandating that indoor gatherings stay under 50 percent capacity which would hold the Jacksonville convention to 7,500 people.
-- IF YOURE A COMPANY, a law firm or a lobby shop, why would you ever consider putting any money behind a political convention this year? Would you want your logo anywhere near Jacksonville, Fla., or Milwaukee during Covid-19? Would you want your executives anywhere close to a gathering that has a chance to be a super-spreading event? Would you throw a party? Youd have to be nuts.
-- SENATORS are saying no thanks. FIVE SENATE REPUBLICANS taking a pass on the RNC convention this summer: SUSAN COLLINS (R-Maine), per CBS CAITLIN HUEY-BURNS; LISA MURKOWSKI (R-Alaska), per CBS ELEANOR WATSON; MITT ROMNEY (R-Utah), per WaPos MICHAEL SCHERER and JOSH DAWSEY. CHUCK GRASSLEY (R-Iowa) and LAMAR ALEXANDER (R-Tenn.) previously bowed out.
-- TV NETWORKS are vowing to stay away.
-- READ MARC CAPUTO and GARY FINEOUT on this topic: Trumps convention bash upended by Floridas coronavirus crisis. Perhaps most importantly: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a close Trump ally, refused to say on Tuesday whether he would lift a rule mandating that indoor gatherings stay under 50 percent capacity which would hold the Jacksonville convention to 7,500 people.
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POLITICO Playbook: Trump won't get the convention he wants (Original Post)
brooklynite
Jul 2020
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procon
(15,805 posts)1. He'll still put on a show of some kind, his ego demands it.
Maybe Trump can do a combo rally and convention starring himself for 2-3 days of nonstop monolog of fun filled faux facts, fear, hate and grievances. He could probably get some low brow entertainers... Religious choirs, some old has-been movie star to do a dramatic reading with an empty chair, or bring back those cute baton twirlers, the family cloggers, a parade of farm implements.
MAGA!
Hotler
(11,443 posts)3. Get the clogging family from the Geico comercial.
I see those guys and I think of the joke, "The Aristocrats" .