Democratic National Convention CEO Joe Solmones announced on Thursday that the 2020 convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin would be postponed from its original mid-July date as a safety measure against COVID-19 outbreak.
Solmones told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that the convention will be held on the week of August 17 instead.
“After a great deal of scenario planning and giving thought to how it is this event can have the greatest impact in the electoral process and the greatest impact in terms of what we can bring to Milwaukee, we felt the best decision, not knowing all the answers, was to delay this,” he said.
Approximately 50,000 people are expected to attend the massive event, which was scheduled to run from July 13 to 16.
2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden said earlier this week that it was “hard to envision” convention organizers sticking to that timetable.
These convention planners need to get with the idea that stadium crowds are inherently dangerous. A month’s delay is not going to do a damn thing to make the virus dissipate. The virus makes its own schedule, not the other way around.
Like I commented yesterday, Abraham Lincoln said it best in 1862:
Fine for now.
But they’d better be thinking about some sort of alternative to a physical gathering.
Oh Good it gives Bernie & the Bros more time to piss and moan. He’ll probably say they are delaying it so they can " Rig" it
So, one week before the GOP’s week-long MAGA rally in Charlotte. I wonder which one will be conducted responsibly, and which one will spark another pandemic?
I’ll bet you half a membership that someone close to Sanders already said it