Trump Mulls Moving Republican National Convention from Charlotte, NC

Jeff Zeleny, reporting for CNN:

The President's fixation on the convention burst into public view on Monday as he fired off a Memorial Day tweet with a threat to move the GOP gathering out of North Carolina unless Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, could "guarantee" that he would open the arena to full capacity. Trump has accused Cooper of "playing politics" with reopening the state's economy.

Cooper insists he is taking a measured approach rooted in data and science that will determine how North Carolina revives its economy in hopes of preventing a summertime spike in coronavirus cases.

This can only be good news. North Carolina is as purple as it’s ever been, and losing the Republican convention could make the difference, which could in turn decide the whole election. Not to mention the fact that losing the convention could allow enough apathy in the state’s republican electorate to affect the down ballot races. Thom Tillis’s (our near universally disliked senator, whose approval rating is sitting at about 26%) seat is up for grabs, and Governor Cooper is up for re-election as well.

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