On Friday, the Republican National Committee formally announced Milwaukee as the host city for the 2024 GOP Convention.
In the end, the RNC narrowed down the pool of candidates to two cities: Nashville and Milwaukee. However, Nashville pulled itself out of the running on Tuesday when Nashville’s Metro Council voted down a draft agreement to host the convention.
All 168 RNC committee members voted on the GOP Convention site as the national party committee held the final session of its annual summer meeting in Chicago.
Traditionally the two national parties have held their presidential nominating conventions in competitive general election states.
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“It is a purple state,” McDaniel said of Wisconsin. “It is exactly the voters that we are trying to bring into our party, and they have done such a great job. We’re excited not only to elect our future president out of Milwaukee as a Republican, but we’re excited to showcase a wonderful city and a wonderful state.”
The DNC has yet to announce its choice to host the 2024 convention but their announcement may come as soon as September when members convene for their annual summer meeting.
In April, the RNC voted unanimously not to adjust its 2024 nominating calendar, keeping Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada as their four early voting states.
The DNC’s in the process of upending their nominating calendar, with the likelihood that Iowa – and possibly New Hampshire – will lose their cherished lead-off spots. Republicans in both states have used the move by the DNC as ammunition against Democrats running for re-election this November in hotly contested showdowns.
When asked if the move by the DNC may hurt Democrats in Iowa and New Hampshire, which is a crucial general election battleground state, McDaniel told Fox News “we recognize that there’s a history there, that voters are very in tune. Retail is key to winning the nomination in both of those states… we are very proud to have kept our calendar the same. I hope that people in those states recognize that the Democrats just walked away from their states.”
McDaniel said RNC committee members are “very confident, very excited, even more so when we look at the candidates we have…as we are getting out of these primaries and really coming together to prepare to win in November.”
Republicans are poised to make major strides in battleground states across the country and ultimately win back the House. Republicans will likely capitalize on a series of the current Administration’s missteps such as the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, historic inflation, and rising crime.
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