President Trump got his wish. He’s going to make his initial reelection pitch against Democrat Joe Biden before a boisterous, unmasked, and not socially distanced crowd.

The Republican Party’s last-minute decision to yank the 2020 GOP national convention’s crowning moment from Charlotte, North Carolina, sets the stage for Trump to underscore his differences with Biden during the Aug. 24-27 event. And now he’ll be able to do that with a dramatic display of pomp and circumstance at the quadrennial gathering, despite his own federal government advising otherwise during the COVID-19 outbreak.