Milwaukee, the largest Democratic stronghold in battleground Wisconsin, is vying to host the Republican presidential convention in 2024. So is Nashville, a Democratic city in a GOP-controlled state. Both have mixed feelings about landing the convention.
Wisconsin could determine who wins in 2024, while Tennessee has not backed a Democrat for president since 1996. In the convention contest, history would seem to favor Milwaukee. For two decades, Republicans have placed their nominating convention in swing states — North Carolina, Ohio and Florida.
New hotels are changing the skyline in and around downtown. Golden said convention-goers could be more concentrated in the city core, minimizing the long bus rides and distant lodging of previous conventions and dialing up the branding opportunity.“This is really a very good narrative of America,” Golden said. “Obviously, it doesn’t hurt that the country music world is also centered there.”
Trump fought unsuccessfully to disqualify thousands of voters in Milwaukee in 2020, falsely portraying late-arriving returns driven by heavy absentee turnout as fraud. “It’s a polarizing convention,” said Democratic state Sen. Tim Carpenter of Milwaukee. “Any time Donald Trump is in the party, it will make it a very polarizing type convention.”
John Cooper told The Associated Press that there is a “whole lot of homework” to be done about hotel rooms and security concerns. He said the RNC is probably “getting a little bit of sticker shock” on how much Nashville hotels cost. He promised that “we are not going to expect our hospitality industry to take a loss in order to have this.”
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