WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he was scrapping next month’s Republican Party nominating convention in Jacksonville, Fl...
In this file photo taken on July 10, 2020 US President Donald Trump attends a briefing on Enhanced Narcotics Operations at the US Southern Command in Doral, Florida. — AFPUS President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he was scrapping next month’s Republican Party nominating convention in Jacksonville, Florida, because of the coronavirus outbreak.
Trump, speaking at a White House press conference, said it was not the right time to do a “big, crowded convention.” “The timing for this event is not right, it’s just not right with what’s happened recently,“ he said.He said Republican delegates who will nominate him as the party’s candidate in November’s election against Democrat Joe Biden will gather in North Carolina for a “reasonably quick meeting.”“I could see the media saying ‘Oh, this is very unsafe,‘” Trump added.
“It’s hard for us to say we should have a lot of people packed into a room and then other people shouldn’t do it,“ he said. “There’s nothing more crowded than a convention.The Republican convention had been scheduled to be held in Jacksonville from August 24-27. Florida has recently experienced a surge in Covid-19 cases, which topped four million in the United States on Thursday. —
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