So in a bit of a shocking move, uh, late yesterday
afternoon, Donald Trump announced that he
was no longer going to have his part of the
Republican national convention in August in
Jacksonville, Florida. He'd been making a
big production of the whole thing from day
one, after it was announced by the ed North
Carolina governor, that he wasn't going to
allow, uh, social distancing guidelines to
be thrown out the window for Trump to do a
speech at the convention, as it was scheduled
in North Carolina. Trump moves it down to
Florida. Florida says, yeah, come on. We're
totally happy to have you here. And then after
that, all hell really broke loose, not just
by the way, with the increase in COVID-19
cases down here in Florida, that I'm sure
has played a big role in their decision, right?
I mean, at least publicly, that is a good
way to sell it so that nobody sees how dysfunctional
it actually was behind the scenes, because
believe it or not folks, it has nothing to
do with the Corona virus. That's just what
they're selling to the public right now. Reports
have been circulating for weeks now about
the fact that one Jacksonville's population,
which by the way, leans heavily Republican.
They didn't want the convention there. They
thought it was a bad idea.
Two Republicans couldn't find donors to pay
For the stupid thing because the donors had
already been tapped out to the tune of, I
think, $32 million, uh, to pay for the one
in North Carolina. You don't get that money
back when you cancel it by the way. And they
actually didn't even cancel it. They're still
doing things in North Carolina. Trump was
just doing his part here, uh, so they couldn't
get money for it. And then as we found out
earlier this week three, and this is a big
one, there was no security. There was no money
to pay for security first and foremost. Uh,
and given this administration's history of
sending Trump into places to do a speech or
a rally, and then not paying their bills,
uh, they kind of wanted to guarantee that
they would get paid and they could not receive
that guarantee. Furthermore, the sheriff over
in Jacksonville, this is hilarious. I'm sorry.
Uh, the sheriff over in Jacksonville earlier
this week, uh, said during a press conference
that there is no security. He has no way to
guarantee the safety of anyone who shows up
to this event. Uh, and he had, by the way,
reached out to literally every County in the
state of Florida, every single County said,
I need all of your available men and women
really do. Please, please, please send them
to me. If they're willing to do this, I need
2000. You know how many he got
500,
He got 25% of the total number that he requested.
That's how many were willing to do it, because
wanted to do it. They realized that this was
akin to a suicide mission. You're going to
go into a packed arena of 20,000 people, not
wearing masks, not social distancing, it's
akin to suicide and they weren't willing to
do it. So those are all the things that happened
behind the scenes. Those were all the things
that actually played the role in forcing this
man to say, all right, fine. You know what?
We're just not going to do it. And to be honest,
yes, this is a good decision. It's a decision
that I wish the Democrats would also do themselves.
I mean, they've already announced the Democrats
have that. Their convention in Milwaukee,
uh, is going to be scaled back. You know,
they're, they're not going to have, uh, the
delegates there.
They're going to be remote, but for Biden's
acceptance speech, they are going to allow
people into the arena. And they're not going
to have a ton of them. They say, but there
are going to have some people there. Uh, why
you do not need that everybody in this country
already knows who Joe Biden is. We know what
he's about. We know what he stands for. We're
there. We've seen it. We had had him for eight
years in the white house as vice president.
And then for 20 to 30 years, somewhere in
that ballpark in the Senate, we get it. We
know him. We're good. Don't need a convention.
Let's not risk anybody's lives because we
can't sit here and talk about what a stupid
idea it is for Republicans to do it, but then
think that it's okay for the Democrats to
do it. That that's not how this works.
If it's stupid for one side to do it, then
it's stupid for the other side to do it. And
it's stupid for the Democrats to move forward
with this plan. Even if they have Joe Biden
in a room with 20 people at that point, it
looks foolish. And it's a bad idea that way,
even if you have everybody standing 50 feet
apart, that looks bad. So why bother? There
is no point to it. Trump not coming in Florida
is great. It's great for us down here, we
are dealing with our own crises at the moment,
and we don't need him coming down here and
giving us more. And I just hope that the Democrats
will extend that same courtesy to Milwaukee,
that Trump just begrudgingly offered to Florida.
