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An event slated in North Carolina from 24-27 August is now under threatening. The US President Donald Trump has threatened to relocate the Republican National Convention if restrictions are placed on the crowd size owing to coronavirus pandemic.
The US elections are due this year. Trump said he would move the site of the convention if “full attendance” was not guaranteed. Almost 100,000 people have died with coronavirus in the US and many states have enacted measures to stop its spread.
Trump tweeted, “I love the Great State of North Carolina, so much so that I insisted on having the Republican National Convention in Charlotte at the end of August. Unfortunately, Democrat Governor, @RoyCooperNC is still in Shutdown mood & unable to guarantee that by August we will be allowed..”
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In a series of tweets posted early on Monday, Trump said that North Carolina’s Democrat Governor Roy Cooper was “still in shutdown mood” and was “unable to guarantee” that the event would take place at full capacity in Charlotte as originally planned.
Race for the White House has begun in earnest, and the outcome of the 2020 US general election will have an impact around the world. This will be a presidential campaign like no other. Just as the Democratic contest was winding down, and former Vice-President Joe Biden was strengthening his grip on his party’s nomination, the US election was derailed by the outbreak of the novel coronavirus.
President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, and Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, have effectively moved their campaigns indoors, skipping the rallies and rope lines that are typically front and centre in an election season.
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, said Trump.
Republicans planning to attend the convention “must be immediately given an answer by the governor as to whether or not the space will be allowed to be fully occupied”, the president said, otherwise another site would be selected.
A spokesman for Governor Cooper said North Carolina was “relying on data and science to protect our state’s public health and safety”.
Trump is seeking a second term in office and there are no other Republicans standing. The Democrats have moved their convention back to August because of the coronavirus outbreak.
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