Many party insiders expect a hybrid event, where some but not all delegates will travel to Milwaukee and some but not all speakers will appear before a live audience in the city.
But that’s a very real prospect in 2020 and a special challenge for Democrats, who are the party out of power, hold their convention first and unlike the GOP are openly entertaining a heavily “virtual” gathering in August because of the pandemic.
“Though been in politics for a long time, there’s relatively little information about him . A convention with a large TV audience is a chance for him to provide that,” Axelrod said in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “Biden needs that.” “You know the contrast will be stark visually,” said the Rev. Leah Daughtry, who was the CEO of the Democratic National Convention in both 2008 and the 2016.
Gorka said that while the pandemic is fluid,"we're still full steam ahead ... President Trump has said he's a traditionalist and he wants to be there." A key question looming over a virtual convention is whether it would attract the television coverage and “eyeballs” that an in-person convention would.
But if you’re getting what is essentially a “a live-stream from a political party,” then “any pretense of ‘I’m going to talk to important people around the edges’ has disappeared. … All of that atmosphere goes away,” said Lukasiewicz, dean of the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication at Hofstra University in New York.
This one will be overseen by Ricky Kirschner, a veteran of the Tony Awards and Super Bowl Halftime Show who has produced all the party’s recent conventions. The City of Milwaukee could lose most of the economic and public relations benefits of a traditional convention. The political symbolism for Democrats of hosting their convention in a critical Midwest battleground could be diminished.
State parties have already been tackling some of these issues. New Hampshire Democrats held a virtual state convention earlier this month with all delegates and speakers participating remotely.offered their comments online as they heard from state Democrats and guest speaker Stacy Abrams, who ran for governor of Georgia in 2018 and is viewed as a possible vice presidential pick.
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