WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump will accept the Republican Party’s presidential nomination outside of North Carolina, where the party’s convention was planned to take place in August, the Republican Party said in a statement on Wednesday.
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat, rejected Republican demands for a full-fledged convention in Charlotte over concerns that social distancing to prevent the spread of the coronavirus would make doing so impossible.
(Reporting by Simon Lewis; Editing by Chris Reese)
