BREAKING: President Trump cancels the Jacksonville, Florida, portion of the RNC due to the coronavirus: “I told my team it’s time to cancel the Jacksonville, Florida, component of the GOP convention.”
Trump’s plans for Jacksonville appeared to be in peril earlier this week when theraised safety and health concerns and threatened to oppose a key funding bill for the convention.
Trump said he had spoken with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis about his decision and said that he would still do a convention speech in a “different form,” not the arena event he had hoped for. He said that DeSantis did not ask him to cancel the convention, but he decided to do it anyways for safety reasons and for the media backlash he thought he would receive.Florida is one of the most critical battleground states to Trump's reelection. He narrowly won the state in 2016, earning 48.6 percent of the vote over Hillary Clinton's 47.4%.
Trump moved the convention from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Jacksonville earlier this year after officials in North Carolina raised concerns about hosting such a large event amid a global pandemic. Many Republican officials and party leaders had said that they did not plan to attend the Jacksonville event due to the coronavirus.
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