If the Republican National Convention ends up being noticeably scaled back, President Trump runs the risk of raising expectations yet again about his public campaign events and then failing to deliver.
Trump wants to move past the months of coronavirus lockdowns and return to traditional campaigning, especially his freewheeling “Make America Great Again” rallies, but the virus hasn’t cooperated. The GOP convention was moved from Charlotte, North Carolina, after state and local authorities couldn’t guarantee it would be allowed to proceed as a live, mass attendance event. Now, it is encountering similar problems with Jacksonville, Florida, officials as COVID-19 cases spike in the Sunshine State with a little over a month to go before Trump’s renomination.
