Trump Canceled His Republican National Convention In Florida
President Donald Trump announced he’s canceling the Jacksonville, Florida portion of the Republican National Convention because of the“So I told my team it's time to cancel the Jacksonville Florida component of the GOP convention,” he said during a Thursday press conference. “I’ll still do a convention speech, in a different form, but we won’t do a big crowded convention, per se. It’s just not the right time for that.
“We will be starting in North Carolina for the Monday, as always been planned, we were never taking that off,” Trump said. “That’s remaining as it is, the delegates are going to get together, that's where they do their nomination.” So the delegates are going to North Carolina, they’ll be doing the nomination, and we are going to do some other things, with tele-rallies and online the week that we are discussing, which will be really good.
The president, in canceling those plans Thursday, tried to make the case that his convention could still make for good entertainment.
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