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Trump Announces Republicans will Pull National Convention out of North
Carolina

VOA News

   U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday the Republicans will move this
   year's national convention from the southeastern state of North
   Carolina because the governor is refusing to remove restrictions on
   large events aimed at preventing the spread of the coronavirus.

   As many as 19,000 people, including delegates and party officials, were
   expected to gather in Charlotte's Spectrum Center, home of the city's
   National Basketball Association franchise, in late August to nominate
   President Trump as the party's candidate in the November presidential
   election. The president and Republican officials had demanded that
   Democratic Governor Roy Cooper allow the party to hold a typical
   full-scale convention, with an arena packed with delegates freely
   walking around without face masks.

   But Governor Cooper rejected those demands Tuesday, saying that "a
   scaled-down convention with fewer people, social distancing and face
   coverings is a necessity" because officials could not be sure of the
   status of the COVID-19 pandemic when the convention begins.

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