Trump won’t be in Tampa — Isaac will
Trump won’t be in Tampa — Isaac will
It took a force of nature to bump Donald Trump from his role at the Republican National Convention.
As recently as Saturday afternoon, Trump was scheduled to collect the Sarasota Republican Party’s Statesman of the Year award and then swoop down to Tampa for a day of wall-to-wall media interviews, meetings with top donors to Mitt Romney’s campaign and then, apparently per the presidential candidate’s request, a “surprise” publicity stunt on the convention floor. But these plans went by the wayside after convention officials canceled Monday’s events because of Tropical Storm Isaac, which is forecast to strengthen into a hurricane.
The cancellation of appearances by the Statesman of the Year came as a relief to some Republicans in the convention center on Sunday afternoon, especially given Romney’s joke that “no one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate” at a campaign stop last week in Michigan. Romney was born in the state and the quip echoed Trump’s questioning of President Obama’s birthplace.
“It’s a blessing,” Pete Mackin, an alternate delegate from that state, said of Trump’s absence.
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