Democrats fear they can’t compete with expected GOP convention blowout
By Jon Levine
June 20, 2020 | 6:17pm
As President Trump plans a no-expense-spared, blow-out convention in Jacksonville, Fla., some Democrats are increasingly nervous their party’s pandemic-conscious gathering won’t be able to offer up a compelling alternative.
“The nightmare scenario is [Trump] comes out and rallies his base and gives a speech to an insane crowd and it is covered on every channel and he catapults himself into the fall with an energized base,†one Democratic insider familiar with convention planning told The Post. He said he fears Democrats might counter with “delegates in social-distance folding chairs listening to Joe Biden to an audience tuning in on Zoom.â€
“The optics of that are just awful,†the insider continued. “The visual would suggest that momentum and excitement is on the Republican side and not ours.â€
Though Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez told reporters last week that party delegates planned to “descend†on Milwaukee for their convention during the third week of August — the logistics remain to be worked out.
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