The Southern Democrat with the
power to shut down Trump's convention
Politico,
by
Maya King
Original Article
Posted By: Garnet,
5/10/2020 12:11:32 PM
North Carolina Roy Cooper has got a doozy on his hands.
He’s a Democratic governor, up for reelection in a Republican-leaning Southern swing state, pushing a go-slow approach to reopening the economy as protests intensify and neighboring states move quicker.But that’s just the start: How the first-term governor handles his state's reopening will likely dictate whether President Donald Trump and the Republican Party can forge ahead with a full-fledged convention in Charlotte this summer.
“Between the governor and the mayor of Charlotte, who is also a Democrat, they really do control whether or not [the Republican convention] will happen,” said David McLennan, director of the Meredith Poll,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Cardsfan 5/10/2020 12:17:12 PM (No. 407058)
Fine, move it to Georgia
48 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
bighambone 5/10/2020 12:28:22 PM (No. 407071)
If President Trump and the Republican National Committee think that the Democrat Governor of North Carolina is meddling in business surrounding the scheduled Republican National Convention, they will up and move the convention to a friendlier venue. Then that Democrat Governor can deal with the fallout from his constituents for loosing the convention and all the money that goes with it.
50 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
justavoter 5/10/2020 12:42:53 PM (No. 407090)
You would think the Democrats would want all these Republicans to get together in one place, catch the Kung flu and die
10 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
LadyHen 5/10/2020 12:56:23 PM (No. 407110)
Heck, if those NC Dems raise a stink, move it 400 miles west to Nashville, TN. We sure could use the business. Thankfully we are starting to open up tomorrow. Woohoo!!
23 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
pros7767 5/10/2020 1:06:24 PM (No. 407130)
South Carolina is available too!
11 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 5/10/2020 1:17:20 PM (No. 407144)
At this point, moving it is a flick of the wrist.
Screw NC.
22 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
starboard 5/10/2020 1:25:57 PM (No. 407148)
What! Are all the Democrat governors just plain stupid? Bring the business to a critical Red state like Ohio, perhaps Cincinnati or another State. I hope every the Blue state governor loses bigly in November.
17 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
BarryNo 5/10/2020 1:29:50 PM (No. 407152)
Go ahead, chumps. Make Trump's day. Interfering in the Democratic process by a bunch of unlabeled totalitarians would just about guarantee a sweep of all 50 states... unless your Cheat-by-Mail goes through.
Then comes the Revolution, and America will be free, once more.
10 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
bad-hair 5/10/2020 1:51:27 PM (No. 407180)
Frankly if I was Trump I'd just move it to Texas tomorrow. Tel the GUV to go have a nap.
8 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Rob_NC 5/10/2020 1:53:49 PM (No. 407183)
Cooper and Lyles are full fledged libs...Charlotte was not a great choice.
As a native North Carolinian I was proud to have President Trump to have his convention here,but Charlotte is a liberal city and would not be a welcoming host...
6 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
TJ54 5/10/2020 2:58:08 PM (No. 407227)
Invoke the Insurrection Act put the Dems in the slammer
2 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
judy 5/10/2020 3:00:19 PM (No. 407233)
Politico ...NC is not the only state, what a joke!! Move it to California or NY...they need the $$$$
3 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 5/10/2020 3:01:11 PM (No. 407236)
Move it to Oklahoma City the heart of red country.
9 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
lakerman1 5/10/2020 3:06:45 PM (No. 407244)
friend's daughter in law is a physician, practicing in NC.
friend told me that NC is triple counting for
'new' cases of Kung Flu.
example - patient is sick, test positive for Kung Flu.
after treatment, patient is re-tested, still positive for Kung Flu.
treated again, re-tested, still positive for Kung Flu.
Each of the three tests is reported as a new case of Kung Flu.
the best thing DJT could do would be to move the republican convention to another state, and have one delegate from each state, with proxy power for the other delegates from the state.
small convention, minimal risk of spreading china's gift to the world, reduces all sorts of travel to the location, and hurts Governor No- Nothing of NC.
The dimocrats will do whatever they can to keep Old Jo Biden and his partner in adultery, Jill, under wraps.
8 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
MuncsSister 5/10/2020 4:02:23 PM (No. 407303)
Yankee liberals ruin beautiful places. #10 is correct. The 2016 riots are perhaps a contributing factor to lack of enthusiasm with the announcement. Two major events— PGA and the upcoming Coke 600 have been canceled. Don’t think for a second that the democrats, RINOs and the big banks won’t collude to kill the CLT hospitality industry to hurt Trump, because they will.
That’s said, he needs to win NC again. And he could.
7 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 5/10/2020 4:15:56 PM (No. 407315)
North Georgia is available. Plenty of deplorables are at hand.
4 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
Sergeant Major 5/10/2020 10:03:53 PM (No. 407504)
Somebody name names. Just which Sherlock decided to hold a Republican convention in a city with a Dem mayor and a state with a Dem Gov? With thinking like that we are sure to succeed in failing.
2 people like this.
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