CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — What should have been a bustling city center packed with everyone who’s anyone in GOP politics, the national media, even protesters, for the 2020 Republican National Convention is instead eerily quiet this weekend.

Rather, there’s a select group of Republican officials hoping to pull off a successful pandemic-era in-person meeting that balances safety with some sense of normalcy in a general election year.

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