If you’ve been to either of the latter two cities during mid-July (the 2020 Democratic National Convention will run from July 13-16), you’ll better appreciate the Democratic National Committee’s thinking (Milwaukee’s July weather usually hovers around a high of 80° F). Democrats held their bash in Charlotte (the scene of next summer’s Republican National Convention); North Carolina went to Mitt Romney. The last time both presidential candidates carried the states that hosted their party’s national convention? If that arena-sized number of Wisconsinites likes what it sees in Milwaukee and votes Democratic that fall, it will have been worth the venture. And so the Milwaukee convention will fit into a narrative of Democrats looking to win back the Upper Midwest.

Source: Forbes March 12, 2019 03:22 UTC