Republicans are deciding whether to hold their presidential nominating convention in 2024 in Milwaukee, the largest Democratic stronghold in battleground Wisconsin, or in Nashville, Tennessee, a Democratic city in a GOP-controlled state.
FILE - Milwaukee's skyline along Lake Michigan is seen in this Feb. 8, 2019. Republicans are deciding whether to nominate their 2024 presidential candidate in Milwaukee, the largest Democratic stronghold in battleground Wisconsin, or in Nashville, a blue city in a deep red state. .
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. “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.”
The city's top election official, Claire Woodall-Vogg, tweeted in mid-March that if Milwaukee gets the convention she would work remotely that week “lest I be hung in the town square like some have threatened.” Three days after she posted that message, she deleted her Twitter account. Mayor John Cooper, a Democrat, watched this year as Republicans divided the city three ways during redistricting, a move aimed at improving their chances to flip a Democratic congressional seat and one that drove Cooper's brother, U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, not to seek reelection.John Cooper told The Associated Press that there is a “whole lot of homework” to be done about hotel rooms and security concerns.
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