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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNorth Carolina throws convention threat back at Trump and GOP
Donald Trump threatened Monday to pull the Republican National Convention out of North Carolina if state officials dont roll out the red carpet soon.
On Tuesday, those officials put the onus on national Republicans to show they can pull off a 50,000-person event safely.
In a letter to Marcia Kelly, the president and CEO of the convention, North Carolina secretary of Health and Human Services Mandy Cohen acknowledged the presidents warning and requested a public health plan for the event.
"The status of Covid-19 infections in our state and in the Charlotte area continues to rapidly evolve [so] it will be important to have several scenarios planned that can be deployed depending on the public health situation," she wrote. "[M]easured and careful planning efforts are important not only to convention-goers, but also to the North Carolinians who rely on us to protect the publics health."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/north-carolina-throws-convention-threat-back-at-trump-and-gop/ar-BB14Dvxr?li=BBnbfcL
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,237 posts).
Sorry, it was not my intention to leave off COVID testing of hookers & rent-boys, and the relaxation of laws preventing feet from 'accidentally' sliding into adjacent bathroom stalls.
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SWBTATTReg
(22,187 posts)health rules such as wearing masks, social distancing, etc., they (the gop thugs) will put everyone in any community in harms' way.
Freethinker65
(10,082 posts)erronis
(15,393 posts)has ever paid off.
Except for some spawn and his handlers (putin and libertarians.)
uponit7771
(90,367 posts)Faux pas
(14,700 posts)RobertDevereaux
(1,858 posts)...it had better be engulfed in flame!
littlemissmartypants
(22,840 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)NC is kicking this one upstairs where it should be. Remember that old ad..."Show us your Underalls"? Well, Chumpsters -Show us your plan!
aggiesal
(8,940 posts)rufus dog
(8,419 posts)For conventions you would also pick up floor space. (No court)
That being said, you wouldn't fit another 30k on the floor of the arena.
Guessing, not doing the research, they are including all of the overflow areas outside the main arena to get to the 50k number.
gab13by13
(21,460 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)if he can't have his Nuremberg Rally? He counts on this to get his death-cult members riled up into a blood lust. He's not going to like this, North Carolina!
sandensea
(21,692 posts)And the RNC will find a way to bill the taxpayers for the inconvenience.
helpisontheway
(5,008 posts)sandensea
(21,692 posts)More room - and less chance of losing valuables to sticky-fingered GOP conventioners.
rocktivity
(44,581 posts)by having all the attendees tested first
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Cha
(297,877 posts)Xolodno
(6,408 posts)There are a lot of businesses counting on the convention....and many are no doubt Republican. He's trying to cast the blame, but it has a very big chance of backfiring.
book_worm
(15,951 posts)and so he can stay at Mar-a-Largo. If I were NC I'd consider myself lucky.