Dems Should Cancel National Convention in Milwaukee

Here we go...”Party leaders agree with Joe Biden – the Dem Nat’l Convention cannot proceed as originally planned.” Of course the media will try to press Republicans to do the same. https://t.co/9rQ43VFVRs

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) April 2, 2020

From CBS News:

Democratic Party leaders across the country are calling on party bosses to curtail, postpone or dramatically rethink the party's national convention scheduled for July in Milwaukee, concerned that holding a mass gathering just as levels of infection are expected to ebb could expose thousands to the coronavirus once again.

Calls from the party faithful to rethink the Democratic National Convention come as the party's presumed presidential nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, for the first time publicly expressed doubt that the gathering could proceed as it has in the past.

"It's hard to envision that," Biden said in an MSNBC interview this week. "We ought to be able — we were able to do it in the middle of the Civil War all the way through to World War II — have Democratic and Republican conventions and primaries and elections and still have public safety. And we're able to do both. But the fact is it may have to be different."

The Democratic National Convention is scheduled to run July 13 to 16 in a city already facing questions about whether it can accommodate 4,750 delegates, plus thousands of other party officials, corporate sponsors and journalists. Cancellation or curtailment of the national convention, the first ever held in "Cream City," could lead to millions of dollars in lost revenue. The 2016 Democratic convention generated $231 million for Philadelphia.

A Marquette University Law School poll released on Wednesday finds that 62% of Wisconsin residents believe the convention should not be held as an in-person event. Just 22% believe it should meet as scheduled.

According the Marquette poll, the overwhelming majority of Wisconsinites don't want the convention held as an in-person event in Milwaukee.

NO DEMOCRAT NATIONAL CONVENTION IN MILWAUKEE.

There's nothing the Democrats would like more than to have an excuse to keep their convention and Joe Biden out of the spotlight.

However, the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic is a legitimate concern.

I do not want tens of thousands of people descending on southeastern Wisconsin during a pandemic.

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett needs to protect the city's citizens.

NO DEMOCRAT NATIONAL CONVENTION IN MILWAUKEE.

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers needs to consider the safety of the state's people.

NO DEMOCRAT NATIONAL CONVENTION IN MILWAUKEE.

Summerfest is postponed due to the Wuhan virus and Festa Italiana is cancelled.

These OUTDOOR festivals will not be held as usual.

It's ridiculous to think the Fiserv Forum should be filled with people gathering from all over the country.

NO DEMOCRAT NATIONAL CONVENTION IN MILWAUKEE.