The Republican national committee is running
into a lot of problems right now because they
are having trouble finding anyone, any wealthy
Republican donor out there who is willing
to pay for their new Republican convention
that is supposed to take place in Jacksonville,
Florida. Here's the backstory in case you
haven't been following this story, the Republican
national convention was supposed to take place
in North Carolina, North Carolina governor
recently said, we are not going to ease up
our social distancing guidelines for your
convention. So you're not going to be able
to pack it with, you know, 20, 30, 40, or
even 50,000 people into that arena. Sorry,
but we're in the middle of a pandemic. It's
what we have to do. Trump said that's not
okay. I need a big crowd. I need people to
see me. I need to see people. The cameras
need to see me seeing people.
And so he said, we're just going to go down
to Florida. Florida loves me. The governor
down there ran on a platform of, I love Donald
Trump. Trust me. I live here. The ads were
disgusting, but that is exactly what they
were. And he went to the Republican city of
Jacksonville controlled by Republicans, big
Republican population. But the problem is
that the RNC had already spent $38 million,
which was their entire convention war chest.
They spent $38 million in North Carolina already.
They can't get that money back. It's gone.
So in order to hold and they're still gonna
hold part of the convention in North Carolina,
but Trump's, part's going to be down here
in Florida over in Jacksonville. Uh, but they
don't have any money. They can't come up with
anything to, you know, pay for it. So they've
been reaching out to wealthy Republican donors
over the past few weeks trying to say, Hey,
yeah, we know we kind of tapped you out for
the North Carolina thing.
And we spent that money, but you know, trauma,
he wants go down to Florida. Um, so can you
give us a little more? And the Republican
donors are straight up telling them no, but
here's the thing. It's not because they're
mad that Trump is throwing this tantrum that
could cost them another $38 million. They're
not wanting to put their name on it because
of how bad the pandemic has gotten here in
the state of Florida. I mean, we alone state
of Florida has added a 60,000 new positive
COVID-19 cases in just the last seven days,
60,000.
We are absolutely right now, the fastest growing
state in the country for total number of coronavirus
cases and none of these wealthy Republican
donors, none of these wealthy Republican businesses
want to have their name attached to a convention
that is more than likely going to the spread
of this virus. They don't want to be associated
with this bad decision. They're not afraid
to lose money. They're not afraid to pay for
Donald Trump's $38 million temper tantrum.
But what they are afraid of is the negative
publicity. That's going to come along with
them being complicit with this negligent manslaughter,
which is what this is. This is manslaughter
that is not full blown murder or homicide
or anything like that. But it's really hard
to describe it as anything other than manslaughter,
because we know that people are going to go
into this convention center in Jacksonville.
They're not going to be socially distanced.
There is not going to be any kind of a mandatory
mask order. The virus is going to spread.
And some of those people will end up stop
dead. They will end up in an early grave because
of Donald Trump's $38 million temper tantrum.
And so you really can't blame these Republican
donors for not wanting their name on that
for not wanting to be associated with it because
this isn't going to end well for anyone. And
it certainly isn't going to give Donald Trump
the boost and polling in Florida, that he
thinks it is. If anything, he's going to destroy
the lives of more of his supporters down here,
which is only gonna make his numbers a little
bit worse.
