Charlotte’s preparing for 50,000 visitors this summer for the 2020 Republican National Convention. That brings up a number of questions: How did the little blue dot of Charlotte win the bid to host the big red conference of the RNC? How does a political convention even work? And how will it impact the city …

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So, how did Charlotte come to land the 2020 Republican National Convention? It’s actually a 20-year journey, dating back to the late 1990s and two failed attempts to land national political conventions. Let’s go back to what Charlotte was like 20 years ago. The city’s population was 510,000 people in 1998, and there are now …

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On today’s episode of Inside Politics, we’re going to do some compare-and-contrast between 2012, the last time Charlotte hosted a convention, and now as we’re preparing for the RNC. The first place we’re going to visit is the corner of Stonewall and Caldwell streets uptown. This is the site of a new mixed-use development that …

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When the Democratic National Convention came to Charlotte in 2012, some businesses made lots of money – like the owner of a limo company. “We did in about three-and-a-half days what we would normally do in two-and-a-half months in volume and revenues,” said James Weymann, owner of SilverFox Chauffered Transportation in Charlotte. “That’s how good …

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Four years ago, a delegate at the Republican National Convention said this: “I cannot vote for Donald Trump, either for the nomination or in November.” That was former North Carolina Supreme Court justice Robert Orr, who attended the 2016 RNC in Cleveland as a delegate for former Ohio Gov. John Kasich. That comment led him …

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Will the coronavirus derail the Republican National Convention in August? And what about its impact on the general election? Will North Carolina shift more to voting by mail, even after the General Assembly last year eliminated the role of third parties in helping voters request mail ballots? And how have other national emergencies – like …

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A week ago on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show, President Trump was adamant he would not cancel the Republican National Convention in August. “Somebody was asking today, ‘Will you cancel your convention?’ I said no way I’m going to cancel the convention,” Trump said. “We’re going to have the convention, it’s going to be incredible.” …

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The country – and North Carolina – is talking about reopening. But what will that look like? And how will we know it’s safe to reopen?  “We need to try to find an appropriate balance. And it often seems like we’re stuck between a rock and a hard place,” said Jeffrey Shaman, an epidemiologist with …

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