Adam Edelman is a politics reporter for NBC News.
MILWAUKEE — As Donald Trump entered the Fiserv Forum on Monday, the first night of the Republican National Convention, thousands of delegates and GOP faithful stood and raucously cheered. Five blocks south, at Zeidler Union Square Park — one of two so-called First Amendment zones that city and U.S. Secret Service officials had designated for protests this week — there was no sign of a convention going on at all.
And so I think a lot of people are feeling very motivated to protest against the Democrats,” he said. Flores added that he’d received “concerns from our coalition partners” regarding Wisconsin’s open-carry gun laws, calling it a “scary concept” that “weapons were allowed within the soft zone” but noted that “it’s nothing that we couldn’t have addressed or couldn’t mediate.
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