Before long, national party conventions will likely become a relic of the past like the multi-ballot conventions of yore
Why fill all those seats when the show can go on remotely? Photo: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images One of the more atavistic phenomena in our political system has been the quadrennial national party convention, an event full of stage-managed pomp and manufactured enthusiasm put together for television in lieu of the actual deliberation that used to mark these occasions.
The Rev. Leah D. Daughtry, who headed the 2008 and 2016 Democratic conventions, told Sabato’s Crystal Ball that canceling the in-person convention is “a rising possibility, especially now that the Olympics are postponed for a year. It will be difficult to justify gathering 50,000 people in one place when the very next week it would have been the Olympics and they’ve been canceled.
A remote convention could be structured around a series of events on broadcast and social media, Saunders said.“You could do speeches and floor votes, with watch parties at local and state party headquarters,” Saunders said. “That could be a unifying, positive event that builds party rapport and purpose — if the parties could find a way to pull it off.
“No way I’m going to cancel the convention,” Trump has told Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “We’re going to have the convention, it’s going to be incredible.”
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