re: #268 Jay C

Though he’s probably right: if the RNC in Charlotte doesn’t happen, every red-state burg with an arena bigger than a high-school gym will likely be clamoring for the “privilege” of hosting Dear Leader’s Coronation the Convention.

That this might cause *ahem* a few logistical problems - still less confront the issue of a contagious pandemic still likely to be raging in August - has probably not occurred to them….

Though, as an aside, I wonder if the negative economic effects of a cancelled Convention might not have negative (political) repercussions in Charlotte, and NC (since we KNOW who the Orange Asshole and the GOP will blame). I know the city is far from a backwater: but losing the business from a big political convention isn’t a trivial sum. Though in the Pandemic Year, who knows….?

I nominate Lubbock. It has the enormous United Supermarket Arena (no, that’s really the name) which is seriously under-utilized outside basketball season, as well as an airport, plenty of churches and roughly the same number of bars (@220 of each) as well as good medical facilities and a MAGA-friendly populace and media