President Trump warned on Tuesday that North Carolina's Democratic governor has as little as a week to figure out if the Republican's presidential nominating convention can be held in Charlotte this summer.
offered their states up as the site to host the convention if Trump follows through on his threat to move the confab.
But hours earlier Cooper explained, “We’ve been in talks with the RNC about the kind of convention that they would need to run and the kind of options that we need on the table. We’re talking about something that’s going to happen three months from now and we don’t know what our situation is going to be regarding COVID-19 in North Carolina.
Cooper emphasized that more discussions with the RNC will take place this week and next week. He added that while he supporter holding the August 24-27 convention in North Carolina, “we have to put the health and safety of North Carolinians as the guiding star in this process.” On Tuesday morning, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp of neighboring Georgia tweeted that his state “would be honored to safely host” the RNC this summer and asked Trump to consider holding the convention in the state.
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