“Every one around here (Rock Hill SC, just south of Charlotte) knew it was going to be a bust when the DNC cancelled hundreds of room reservations here in the last 10 days”
That is a good sign; sounds like a lot of Dems that will be “down the ticket” from The Sultan don’t want to be associated with him.
Seemed that one hotel (Hampton Inn at the airport?) was asking $1000 per night during the convention. When no one booked any rooms at that rate, they dropped the rate to “only $649” and actually sold a couple of rooms.
Looks like the convention crowd stayed in Charlotte or in SC. Most of the folks in Statesville just laughed at the whole insane mess. Not that they ever venture up into Charlotte much ...