The GOP is having an extremely difficult time securing a host city for the 2020 Republican National Convention where Donald Trump is expected to be nominated for a second term as President of the United States.
Despite the nearly $185 million economic boost brought to the city from the 2016 RNC, The Hill reports that Cleveland has joined the ranks of Las Vegas, San Antonio, Nashville and Philadelphia, declining to host the convention. These cities are citing high security costs and disruption to downtown business as to why they’ve decided to steer clear of the GOP event.
The Hill also spoke with political strategists to try and get to the bottom of why so many cities are declining the opportunity to host.
“Most of the cities that have turned down the RNC are Democratic cities,” said Evan Siegfried, a New York-based Republican strategist. “Their leaders do not want to suffer blowback with their residents for hosting Trump and neither do they want to have local business owners angry because protesters smashed their store windows.”
Last week, San Antonio’s City Council voted against bidding on the convention, with Mayor Ron Nirenberg citing the $40 million that Cleveland spent on the 2016 RNC’s security as a cause for concern.
Also according to The Hill’s report, only three cities are currently in the running to host the 2020 RNC — and only one, Charlotte, North Carolina, has gone public with their bid.
More than 5o,000 people attended the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, and Scene celebrated with a commemorative coloring book.
This article appears in May 9-15, 2018.
Cleveland did a great job hosting the previous one. They shouldnt have taken themselves out of the bidding for this one. Many things can and will change between now and 2020.
The Republican Convention may have been an economic boon, but I now feel bad that we allowed such evil into our city. There’s nothing like hosting the beginning of the fascist takeover of America!
Same shit, different day. Put down the pipe and give your fingers a rest, asshat.
Moscow, Russia would be appropriate.
Thank you, SCENE for cleaning up he toxic waste spill in Aisle Three.
Scene is a part of the media arm of the fascist and illegitimate liberal world order. They manipulate the news, feed their readers politically loaded information, then delete any comments that go against the narrative their overlords have conditioned and forced them to promote.
You keep on spilling it, hoser, and it will keep on being reported to the clean-up crew.
And…hopefully… they will keep on hosing it away.
it was a shameful event which did virtually nothing for our city
For all intensive purposes, Cleveland is a “quiet” city and really not in the mood for the insanity that comes along with this type of event. We did our event, and it was fun, but I think we need a little bit of a break before we want to try something like that again.
Bring on the Democrats! They are much more fun than the Republicans and way less evil.