{"id":15552,"date":"2020-05-26T17:36:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T21:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=15552"},"modified":"2020-05-26T17:36:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T21:36:40","slug":"kemp-offers-georgia-as-a-replacement-site-for-the-republican-national-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=15552","title":{"rendered":"Kemp offers Georgia as a replacement site for the Republican National Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is offering Georgia as a possible replacement site for the Republican National Convention after President Donald Trump demanded answers from the convention&#8217;s current host state about venue capacity amid the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kemp, who dined in Norcross last week with Vice President Mike Pence, made his offer over Twitter, and said the state would be &#8220;honored&#8221; to host the convention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">With world-class facilities, restaurants, hotels, and workforce, Georgia would be honored to safely host the Republican National Convention. We hope you will consider the Peach State, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realdonaldtrump<\/a>!<\/p>&mdash; Governor Brian P. Kemp (@GovKemp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovKemp\/status\/1265278545628221440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 26, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump shocked pundits on Memorial Day when he publicly threatened to move the convention out of North Carolina in a string of tweets sent early Monday morning. In the tweet, Trump blamed Gov. Roy Cooper for being in &#8220;Shutdown mood and unable to guarantee that by August we will be allowed full attendance in the Arena.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I love the Great State of North Carolina, so much so that I insisted on having the Republican National Convention in Charlotte at the end of August. Unfortunately, Democrat Governor, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RoyCooperNC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RoyCooperNC<\/a> is still in Shutdown mood &amp; unable to guarantee that by August we will be allowed&#8230;<\/p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1264891994184257537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As of 1 p.m. Tuesday, Georgia has 43,730 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and has and 1,871 deaths. North Carolina has had 22,725 confirmed cases and 737 deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under Georgia&#8217;s current social distancing guidelines events and gatherings of more than 50 people are still prohibited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is offering Georgia as a possible replacement site for the Republican National Convention after President Donald Trump demanded answers from the convention&#8217;s current host state about venue capacity amid the coronavirus pandemic. Kemp, who dined in Norcross last week with Vice President Mike Pence, made his offer over Twitter, and said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7286,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-government","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}