GOP picks final four in 2024 convention search

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

Republicans are ramping up their search for a host city for the party’s 2024 national convention, narrowing the list of contenders to four cities.

The cities in contention are Milwaukee, Nashville, Pittsburgh and Salt Lake City, according to a person familiar with the search process. Party officials are planning to visit each of the locations over the coming months before finalizing a decision in the spring.

The deliberations come as the GOP begins its early preparations for the next presidential election. When Republican National Committee members gather in Salt Lake City next month for their annual winter meeting, they are expected to discuss a range of 2024-related issues, including the primary calendar, primary and general election debates and the convention search.

The choice of a convention host city has taken on an important symbolic role in recent years, with both parties using them to deliver statements of intent about competing for important swing states — and to direct attention and organizing resources to those places. Neither Republicans nor Democrats have gone outside a potential battleground for a convention city since 2004, though coronavirus interfered with both parties’ plans in 2020.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/07/gop-2024-convention-search-526707

[bucolic_frolic]

1. My bet is Pittsburgh in an attempt to pick up the only clear swing state on the list.

[karynnj]

11. Wisconsin is another swing state.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. I think it's a bit less so than PA

[karynnj]

16. For Pittsburgh, I would also note how close to Michigan and Ohio

I think if they want a place they can control, it might be Salt Lake City. Would the evangelicals be OK with the city that is the enter for the Mormons?

One problem the Republicans have Is most urban areas, even in very red states, are blue. You need lots of hotel rooms and a very large convention hall assuming the convention is in person.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. My money's on Nashville:

1. Tennessee is within the Confederacy.
2. Country Music Capitol.
3. Trump supporters would love an excuse to visit Nashville.
4. Region is suitable for Trump Jr. and his gun advocacy.

[evolves]

7. Nashville/Davidson Co

is intensely blue in the midst of a blood-red state. The Pukes will find little love here, though their acolytes from surrounding counties will drag in, I'm sure.

[IrishEyes]

3. I was thinking of moving to Nashville or Pittsburgh.

They are on my list of possible cities to move to. I want to move out of NYC.

[DonCoquixote]

4. don't count out Milwaukee

Having a GOp bash where they get to ride in like white saviors', in the land where George Floyd was killed, would be a coup. It would play right to their Midwestern choir.

[Mawspam2]

8. Floyd was killed in Minneapolis...

...not Milwaukee. I killed a case of beer in Milwaukee.

[DonCoquixote]

13. point made

but the midwest is still a place easy to spark racial tension

[LiberalFighter]

5. Do the cities want to deal with destruction of property and defecation on the walls?

[Bleacher Creature]

6. Was Philadelphia, Mississippi already booked?

[Slammer]

23. cities

I think they tried that just after London, Arkansas and Mexico, Missouri.

[Bleacher Creature]

24. I was referring (in jest) to the dog whistle component.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan%27s_Neshoba_County_Fair_%22states%27_rights%22_speech

[electric_blue68]

29. Heh.

[NewJeffCT]

9. I'm surprised Moscow didn't make the final 4

that's where their true leader is located

[dchill]

12. That's my take, as well!

[keithbvadu2]

10. So decide already! The hookers need to make travel plans.

So decide already!

The hookers need to make travel plans.

[Mawspam2]

15. Hell, MI is more on message.

Or maybe Tombstone, AZ.
Or maybe Deadwood, SD.
Or maybe Death Valley, CA.
Or maybe Devil's Tower, WY.

[RobertDevereaux]

32. Lost Nation, Iowa.

[turbinetree]

17. My money is that if any city supports an insurrectionist party being held they should be boycotted..

they can go down to Mar a Lago and have there insurrectionist gathering BS....since they are funding his fucking legal fees.....

[RobertDevereaux]

18. Okay, which of you four would like . . .

. . . your reputation permanently and forever sullied, tarnished, and damned to the deepest place in Hell?

[OldBaldy1701E]

30. HAH! That has never worried Nashville before.

It won't be concerned about it now. But, as stated above, it is the blue island in that state. I feel that, although there are plenty of MAGAts in Davidson county, most are surrounding it. I feel that it may become a literal battleground if they hold that thing there. (Even though you will get to see some serious policing if they do hold it there.)

[JohnSJ]

19. I thought it would be Moscow

[patphil]

25. Me to.

[DFW]

20. I would have thought the four in contention were:

McAlester, Oklahoma
Atmore, Alabama
Huntsville, Texas
Draper, Utah

[johnthewoodworker]

21. Please, stay the hell away from Milwaukee.

[Slammer]

22. convention cities

Nashville would be embarrassing for them because there's enough anti-GOP/Trump country music stars to make the news daily.

Salt Lake City has nothing going for it except the locals wouldn't turn out a huge force of anti-GOP demonstrators. And it's difficult for outsiders to drive to.

Milwaukee and Pittsburgh are both battleground enough to be useful to them.

[jmowreader]

26. Hold it in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

By the time 2024 rolls around, the 100 rooms the CDA Resort could spare for three days in the summer will be more than enough.

[EarlG]

27. "Party officials are planning to visit each of the locations over the coming months"

They need to figure out which one has the best strip clubs.

[OldBaldy1701E]

31. That would be Nashville. LOL. (n/t)

[3825-87867]

28. Munich would be much more apropos

Celebrate 101 years.

After that, any of the detention towns in Germany. Although most Germans would object because even they aren't as crazy as these republicants.

[SWBTATTReg]

33. I'd be surprised that any city would want the dubious honor of hosting this thug festival.

After all, what will these people do on their time off between camera breaks? Also, look at the kind of people the GOP attracts...do you want these people running around in our neighborhoods?

Go march in a torchlight parade or go find a group of disadvantaged and protest nonstop against them for the heck of it? If it were my city being considered, I would say PASS.

The so-called benefits of hosting such an event is NOT worth it. And I think my city knows it too. I'll call my city representative (or email better still) and let them know that I don't support the city in hosting this particular group.