Trump announces Jacksonville part of GOP convention will be canceled over coronavirus concerns https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tr...ntion-will-canceled-over-coronavirus-concerns President Trump announced Thursday that he is canceling the Republican National Convention events that were scheduled to take place next month in Jacksonville, Fla. – citing the rising numbers of COVID-19 in the state. “The timing for this event is not right, it’s just not right,” Trump said during a press briefing at the White House. “To have a big convention, it’s just not the right time.” Trump added: “There is nothing more important in our country than keeping our people safe.” The Republican National Committee (RNC) last month chose Jacksonville to host major portions of the convention, after largely abandoning the city of Charlotte, N.C., over disagreements on coronavirus-related crowd restrictions. The president and Republican officials were angered after Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina, a Democrat, said that because of the pandemic he wasn’t prepared to guarantee the RNC a full-fledged convention with an arena packed full of party officials, delegates and activists as desired by Trump. While the Jacksonville portion of the convention has been cancelled, Trump said that delegates will still meet in North Carolina and that he will give an address when he accepts the nomination. The president’s announcement comes as Florida has become the most recent epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. As of Thursday, the state had recorded more than 390,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 – including more than 9,000 in the last 24 hours – and over 5,500 deaths. After deciding to move the celebratory aspects of the convention out of North Carolina, Jacksonville was likely attractive to GOP officials because it was the only city under consideration as a backup to Charlotte that has a Republican mayor in a state with a governor from the same party. The RNC planned to hold the Jacksonville parts of the convention in the VyStar arena. But last week - as new cases of the coronavirus surged in Florida - Republican Party officials announced that they were downsizing the events in Jacksonville by limiting the number of people who could attend the convention - and moving parts of the confab to outdoor venues. The downshifting came soon after the city enacted a mandatory mask requirement for public and indoor locations. The Democrats have also dramatically downscaled their convention. The Democratic National Convention – which was pushed back a month and is scheduled to start on Aug. 17 – is still being held in Milwaukee. But the Democratic National Committee announced last month that their confab will be conducted mostly online - with delegates and Democratic members of Congress taking part in the convention virtually rather than in-person.
not everyone has short memory GWB. You can't just disappear for a while and expect your mistakes to be absolved.
Well --- in that case find the post stating I voted for Trump or supported him. Go look it up and provide the link. Or just look here - https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/who-is-america.322949/page-3#post-4692554 and many similar posts.
Good luck in finding information to support your absurd assertion — additionally you seem intent on portraying me as as a racist which is equally absurd as well as being offensive.