Bowing to the coronavirus threat, President Donald Trump on Thursday scrapped plans for a four-night Republican National Convention celebration in Florida that had been set to draw more than 10,000 people to a pandemic hot spot to mark his renomination. Trump had already moved the convention’s public events out of North Carolina because of virus concerns. Trump and his advisers feared that going forward with big parties and “infomercial” programming in Florida would ultimately backfire on the president. Trump said he plans to deliver his nomination acceptance speech in an alternate form still to be determined — perhaps online. Some of them would have faced quarantine requirements when they returned to their home states from the convention.

Source: The Standard July 24, 2020 01:07 UTC