President Donald Trump on Thursday said that he would cancel the Republican National Convention set for late August in Jacksonville, Fla., as COVID-19 cases...
President Donald Trump on Thursday said that he would cancel the Republican National Convention set for late August in Jacksonville, Fla., as COVID-19 cases rise in the state. Trump said that the"timing for this event" was just not right, speaking during a coronavirus briefing at the White House on Thursday evening. The president said that he would still deliver a speech accepting his party's nomination for re-election in some other way.
Trump's announcement comes as Ronna Romney McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, informed members recently of a decision to scale back the event due to the rise in infections in region."I looked at my team and said, 'The timing for this event is not right,'"Trump said during his briefing."To have a big convention is not the right time; it's really something that for me I have to protect the American people.
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