Trump threatens to pull Republican convention out of North Carolina

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump threatened on Monday to move the Republican National Convention out of North Carolina – while denying that he wants to hold the convention at his namesake resort in Florida even as some state officials started clamoring for the president’s adopted home state to be the venue.

Accusing North Carolina’s Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, of being in a “shutdown mood,” Trump – in a string of early-morning Memorial Day tweets – pressured Cooper to guarantee that “we will be allowed full attendance in the Arena” in Charlotte by the late-August convention.

“Plans are being made by many thousands of enthusiastic Republicans, and others, to head to beautiful North Carolina in August,” Trump wrote. “They must be immediately given an answer by the Governor as to whether or not the space will be allowed to be fully occupied.”

Trump continued: “If not, we will be reluctantly forced to find, with all of the jobs and economic development it brings, another Republican National Convention site. This is not something I want to do. Thank you, and I LOVE the people of North Carolina!”

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