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Trump warns North Carolina governor the clock's ticking on a GOP convention guarantee
Fox News ^ | 05/26/2020 | Paul Steinhauser

Posted on 05/26/2020 5:13:26 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

President Trump warned on Tuesday that North Carolina's governor has "a week" to figure out if the Republicans' presidential nominating convention can be held in Charlotte this summer, as other states offered to hold the gathering instead.

But Gov. Roy Cooper says he’s waiting for the Republican National Committee “to present to us in writing their proposals” on how they plan to hold their presidential convention amid the coronavirus pandemic before he can guarantee that the August convention can be held at “full attendance” as demanded by the president.

Cooper, a Democrat, spoke the day after the president threatened to move the massive quadrennial event from North Carolina if Cooper couldn’t “immediately” tell convention planners whether or not the downtown arena in Charlotte “will be allowed to be fully occupied.” And he spoke hours after the Republican governors of Georgia and Florida offered their states up as the site to host the convention if Trump follows through on his threat to move the confab.

Hours after Cooper made his comments during a daily coronavirus news conference, the president said "we don’t have much time"and that "we need a fast decision from the governor."

"I would say within a week, certainly we’d have to know. And if he can’t do it, if he feels he can’t do it, all he has to do is tell us and then we’ll pick another location, and I will tell you, a lot of locations want it," Trump added as he answered a question from Fox News' White House correspondent John Roberts.

But hours earlier Cooper explained, “We’ve been in talks with the RNC about the kind of convention that they would need to run and the kind of options that we need on the table...

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: convention; northcarolina; rnc; roycooper
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1 posted on 05/26/2020 5:13:26 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Just have it in Florida.


2 posted on 05/26/2020 5:15:21 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Pull the plug on NC.


3 posted on 05/26/2020 5:16:09 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Bullish

I’m so excited! The mayor of Jacksonville just invited the GOP to have the convention in Jax! It would be perfect!


4 posted on 05/26/2020 5:17:22 PM PDT by livius
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Go ahead and pull it from them Mr. President, this governor want to be a dictator


5 posted on 05/26/2020 5:17:46 PM PDT by no-to-illegals ( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
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To: Bullish

Georgia, Florida, Texas. Get out of NC now.


6 posted on 05/26/2020 5:18:10 PM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

seems like his reply makes certain it shouldn’t be held there


7 posted on 05/26/2020 5:20:21 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Zhit or get off the pot!


8 posted on 05/26/2020 5:21:28 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

coopester applying for vp slot


9 posted on 05/26/2020 5:22:34 PM PDT by no-to-illegals ( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
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To: Mount Athos

That’s how I read his reply too.


10 posted on 05/26/2020 5:24:09 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Bullish

Yep. Do it in Florida.


11 posted on 05/26/2020 5:31:58 PM PDT by rlmorel (Thinking for yourself is hard work. But it is a lot easier than ignorance.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I live in the Charlotte region.

If the governor is going to play games, just pull it.

Libtard gonna Tard, nothing you can do.


12 posted on 05/26/2020 5:33:05 PM PDT by eyedigress (Joe, put your mask on!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Move it to FL - get an arena or large stadium (Miami or Tampa)

this idiot NC governor bout to throw away an event that could bring in over $200M in economic activity to NC and nearby SC when it desperately needs it

you can’t make this shit up.


13 posted on 05/26/2020 5:35:18 PM PDT by sheehan (DEPORT ALL ILLEGALS.)
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To: eyedigress

I don’t even understand why they picked Charlotte in the first place. It’s an evil leftist city. Pick somewhere with lots of positive support. SC, GA, FL, TX all sound like states that will be way further along in opening up anyway.


14 posted on 05/26/2020 5:37:54 PM PDT by NCMom57
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To: Balding_Eagle

Another Lucy pulling the football away. Is Cooper up for election in Nov. His slow walk with the lockdown and now this will give us NC.


15 posted on 05/26/2020 5:38:16 PM PDT by bakkentom
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Royboy sez he is gonna let data and science inform his decision. Glad he is going to start doing that. What he has done so far has sucked.


16 posted on 05/26/2020 5:38:21 PM PDT by Adder ("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
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To: NCMom57

Why Charlotte?


17 posted on 05/26/2020 5:42:24 PM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: gcparent

Probably because PDJT’s daughter-in-law, Lara hails from NC.

She and Eric even named their daughter Carolina and Lara is a senior adviser to the campaign as well.


18 posted on 05/26/2020 5:45:35 PM PDT by edie1960
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To: NCMom57

It is a good looking city with great accommodations.

If the Gov wants to follow Libtard Law it will cost him dearly.

Send it to Tampa for all I care. Let Libtard Raleigh own the heat.


19 posted on 05/26/2020 5:47:53 PM PDT by eyedigress (Joe, put your mask on!)
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To: livius
Jax is a great choice .
Atlanta be great too but Jax has more summer activities while
ATL is brutal in summer . Just pull the NC option .
20 posted on 05/26/2020 5:50:21 PM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists)
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