4 August 2020 09:00 am
Washington, (Hindustan Times), 3 August 2020 - The vote to renominate President Donald Trump is set to be conducted in private later this month, without members of the press present, a spokeswoman for the Republican National Convention said, citing the coronavirus.
While Trump called off the public components of the convention in Florida last month, citing spiking cases of the virus across the country, 336 delegates are scheduled to gather in Charlotte, North Carolina, on August 24 to renominate him.
The vote to formally nominate Trump will be livestreamed, according to CNN.
“This is an ill-advised decision that the @GOP @GOPconvention should reconsider,” Zeke Miller, president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, said on Saturday.
“The nomination of a major party presidential candidate is very much the business of the American people.”
Miller later tweeted: “An RNC official now says that the decision is not final and that they are still working through press coverage options.”