The Republican National Convention on Wednesday heavily featured attacks on Democrats and President Donald Trump’s focus on “law and order” just one day after a 17-year-old white Illinois resident allegedly shot a Black Lives Matter protester in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
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President Donald Trump surprised GOP delegates during their renomination vote Monday morning to renew the main attack lines of his bid to stay in the Oval Office: the coronavirus pandemic and mail-in voting.
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The first-ever convention meeting of the Democratic National Committee’s Poverty Council was held Thursday, where its members brought together the twin scourges of racial and economic inequality with the unabated Covid-19 pandemic and offered policy-based solutions as well as scathing critiques of President Donald Trump.
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Democrats tackled how to court rural voters during a meeting of the Democratic National Convention’s Rural Council on Tuesday, emphasizing that rallying rural America behind Joe Biden will require key infrastructure investments and a legitimate ground game to meet voters where they are.
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Taking to the airwaves in an unprecedented virtual meeting, the Democratic National Convention’s Labor Council met Monday afternoon to address the dire challenges faced by Postal Service employees and other essential workers in light of the Trump administration’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Citing the worsening pandemic, Democrats announced Wednesday that their 2020 national convention will be almost entirely virtual, with speakers including presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden appearing via video rather than traveling to Milwaukee as originally planned.
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Hundreds of Democratic delegates, mostly in support of Senator Bernie Sanders, have pledged to boycott the party’s national platform if it does not include single-payer health care, setting up a likely showdown between the party’s progressive and moderate branches just three weeks before the convention.
Read moreA little over a week after the Republican National Committee announced it had scaled back plans for its August convention in Jacksonville, Florida, President Donald Trump said Thursday the GOP’s meeting had officially been canceled.
Read moreThe Texas Republican Party is holding its convention online this weekend after the Fifth Circuit late Friday stayed a federal judge’s order to let the party gather in a Houston convention center.
Read moreA federal judge Friday ordered Houston to let the Texas Republican Party go ahead with its in-person convention in a city-owned building after Mayor Sylvester Turner canceled it out of Covid-19 concerns.
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The Republican National Committee announced Thursday dramatically scaled down plans for its four-day convention next month in the new host city of Jacksonville, as Florida continues to reel from a surge of coronavirus cases.
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The Texas Supreme Court on Monday rejected the state Republican Party’s petition for an order to let it hold its in-person convention this week in Houston despite a surge in coronavirus cases.
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Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill, whose law license was recently suspended for a month over groping accusations, lost the Republican Party’s nomination for his job Friday as delegates narrowly chose a former congressman instead.
Read moreFlorida sued Jacksonville, the Republican National Committee and the Trump campaign in Duval County Court, claiming their plans to hold the Republican Convention in a Jacksonville arena during the Covid-19 pandemic will be “a nuisance injurious to the health, welfare and property rights … of the community of Jacksonville.”
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The Texas Republican Party said it will appeal to the Texas Supreme Court after a judge denied its request for an order to let it hold its convention in Houston next week.
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The Texas Republican Party sued Houston’s Democratic mayor Thursday, claiming he improperly cited the Covid-19 pandemic as an act of God as grounds to cancel the party’s convention.
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The Texas Republican Party said Wednesday it is weighing its legal options after Houston officials canceled the party’s biennial convention due to concerns about the coronavirus.
Read moreTaking a much different approach than the GOP in light of Covid-19 concerns, the Democratic National Committee announced its plans for “a convention across America” anchored in Milwaukee from August 17-20, 2020.
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North Carolina’s Republican lawmakers are expected to pass a bill Tuesday aimed at hosting a full-scale Republican National Convention in Charlotte this summer despite coronavirus concerns.
Read moreHeavyweight Democrats took the stage on the fifth day of the Texas Democratic Party’s first-ever online convention, where leaders including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren put a spotlight on racial injustice.
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