‘A Good, Sweating Time’: GOP Mulls Moving National Convention Outdoors Amid COVID-19 Surge | MSNBC

With Florida continuing to experience record-high numbers of coronavirus infections, Republican party officials are considering holding some or all of their August national convention events outdoors – in steamy Jacksonville, Fla. “This sounds like a good, sweating time,” says former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele. The convention was already relocated from North Carolina in June, after that state couldn’t guarantee President Donald Trump could accept his party’s nomination in front of a crowd without social distancing. Aired on 07/14/2020.
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'A Good, Sweating Time': GOP Mulls Moving National Convention Outdoors Amid COVID-19 Surge | MSNBC

92 comments

  1. Hey Republicans! If you don’t go or show up you aren’t loyal to your Emperor!
    Now go get Covid for his majesty! Bring the family!!

    1. If they don’t go or show up then THEY should have THEIR Funding and Salaries cut, just like SCHOOLS & TEACHERS WILL!!

    2. @Annie Warbux Sweet reply.A teacher died in Arizona of virus teaching summer school.tRump needs to go and his partners in crime and his family.stay safe.✌

    3. @Annie Warbux: I’m sorry to say the economics of the 2008 financial fraud aggression is
      still going around America in waves. In two or three months the residential evictions will begin.
      If that doesn’t make Americans rise up and burn down the White House and stock markets…

    4. @cindy clarke cough in the faces of walmart workers and scream “i have a breathing problem” at 120 decibels with saliva spitting from their mouths

  2. A superpreader by Trump and the Republicans…meanwhile Ivan’s advises unemployed Americans to try something new……
    IVANKA PLEASE GIVE THAT ADVICE TO YOUR FATHER – THE CRIMINAL IN CHIEF

    1. Please America, let us help Republicans and tRump’s base to gather as much as they want. We can even pay for all their travel costs.

      We just need to make sure they don’t mix with humans.

    2. Town of Russia NY (pop 2,533) is in Herkimer County. But NY would require a 2 week quarantine on DT’s covid rally.

  3. Victims and family members should hold Donald J Trump responsible for their pain, suffering and loss.

    1. If my wife gets it and dies in front of me, trust me I will know who to blame and will take appropriate action.

    2. @TrumpVirus-19 IMEI Officials, Tweatles , get lost and SC are trolls, if you answer they get bonuses. The longer the exchange the bigger the bonus. Their posts are designed to draw you in, don’t fall for it.

    3. 2/3 of the 1% are Small Business Owners

      responsible for a Majority of the Jobs Created and the Economic Growth in America

      the 1% or 1.6 million, Pays 40% of all the income tax collected

    4. Trust me… after Trump leaves office, he will never get out of court. Dozens of criminal charges… thousands of lawsuits… he’s going to be utterly destroyed.

    1. @Up Your’s I don’t think you’ve been paying attention. That isn’t the topic of this conversation.

  4. Make attending the convention a requirement for all the senate republicans and congressmen. Lets see their support for this clown

    1. The democrats are going to turn our country into a communist hair sniffer child trafficking country .

    2. Covid-19: For my fellow GOP conventioneers, I await your attendance in Florida. You have your people contact my people and we’ll do lunch. This will be a chance of a lifetime, don t miss out. After the convention please return home and share this experience with others.

  5. Trump: “Today, I am officially terminating my relationship with reality. I don’t like the way that reality has treated me. Reality has been very unfair to me….so tremendously unfair. No one should ever be treated the way that reality has treated me. In fact, I have instructed my Attorney General William Barr, to launch an investigation into reality, and find out it’s connection to the “deep state.”

    1. @Ignoranceisbliss What !
      Everything is BLM or you just haven’t been watching the news ? BLM is saying we are taking over with the help of the middle east Muslims…

  6. Even us Floridians won’t spend all day in the sun at the end of August. They’ll have to worry about covid19 and heat stroke.

    1. @Hilary H – this was my thought exactly…a huge category 5 coming either from the gulf or up the Atlantic coast, flooding Jacksonville and washing all the corruption out to sea.

    2. Randall Johnson since I live on the coast near Jacksonville sort of hoping for bad enough to ruin it for them but not bad enough that I have to evacuate

  7. My sister lives in Florida, she said she is trusting the president and the governor. She then asked if I wanted to visit. LOL. I just had to hang up.

  8. Let me get this straight: They want to move the convention outdoors so that it will be safer…but they want to send kids back into the classrooms?

    1. @Donthurt Precious They don’t care about fetuses either, they just care about the dollars and voters that propaganda pulls in. U.S. has one of highest death rates for mothers and newborns and it ain’t from abortions.

  9. Teflon Don, McConnell’s Mafia, and Barr’s Gestapo must go. They should all go to the Convention and shake every person’s hand. Hugs would be nice too. You know…just to show what a HOAX COVID-19 really is…

    1. Which would be all of them, except for that Mormon dude (sorry, I’m Canadian, can’t remember his name off the top of my head 😉

  10. Oh! Moscow Mitch is apparently a coward. He said he won’t attend however, our children MUST return to school!
    Vote BLUE
    Kim

  11. I’m curious to see just how high wearing a red hat in full sun can raise the temperature of the average republican brain…

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