by Jim Heath | Jul 7, 2020 | 2020, coronavirus, GOP, Headlines
Sens. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee) will not attend the GOP convention next month in Florida. An aide for Collins noted that she was never planning to attend the GOP...
by Jim Heath | Jun 11, 2020 | 2020, Delegates, GOP, Headlines, Trump
When Republicans read the platform their party is using for the 2020 campaign, they may be surprised to see that it is full of condemnations of the sitting president. “The survival of the internet as we know it is at risk,” the platform reads. “Its gravest peril...
by Jim Heath | Jun 11, 2020 | GOP, Headlines, Race, Trump
On Aug. 27, 1960, a mob of 200 white people in Jacksonville, Fla. – organized by the Ku Klux Klan and joined by some of the city’s police officers – chased and beat peaceful civil rights protesters who were trying to integrate downtown lunch counters. The bloody...
by Jim Heath | Jun 2, 2020 | 2020, coronavirus, Delegates, GOP, Headlines, Trump
President Donald Trump said he is moving the Republican National Convention from Charlotte, hours after N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper said he couldn’t guarantee that the August event would be at full capacity due to the coronavirus. In a tweet Tuesday night, Trump said: “Had...
by Jim Heath | May 30, 2020 | 2020, coronavirus, Delegates, GOP, Headlines, Health
President Trump called North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) Friday to argue for holding a normal Republican convention in the state, as talks have become fragile and GOP operatives have signaled they’re looking for an alternative location. “When the President insisted...
