Trump threatens to pull convention from Charlotte, N.C. unless ‘full attendance’ is allowed
President Donald Trump threatened to move August’s Republican National Convention from Charlotte if the state is not able to commit to “full attendance” at the convention.
“In other words, we would be spending millions of dollars building the Arena to a very high standard without even knowing if the Democrat Governor would allow the Republican Party to fully occupy the space. Plans are being .made by many thousands of enthusiastic Republicans, and others, to head to beautiful North Carolina in August.
...full attendance in the Arena. In other words, we would be spending millions of dollars building the Arena to a very high standard without even knowing if the Democrat Governor would allow the Republican Party to fully occupy the space. Plans are being.......to find, with all of the jobs and economic development it brings, another Republican National Convention site. This is not something I want to do.
“We need to crystallize in the next two weeks exactly what the plans are,” he said in a phone interview with The Charlotte Observer.
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