It's suspicious that Benedict Donald would have suddenly come to Jesus on the whole you-can't-hold-a-Republican-convention-during-the-coronavirus thing. After pooh-poohing the pandemic for so long and continuing to remain oblivious to the deaths of 140,000 Americans, why should the well-being of several thousand Republican delegates matter to him? He didn't care about it when he yanked the RNC from North Carolina, and surely he doesn't care about it now.
Nope, the Jacksonville cancellation has to be all about money. They were having trouble raising it, you know.
It would be hard enough to (no pun intended) turn on a dime and try to fundraise for a hastily relocated confab in a few short, brutal weeks — when planning for, and funding, national party conventions typically take months and years. It's even more difficult when Florida's doughy-faced Republican Governor, pissy about a former aide he doesn't like running the Jacksonville pitches, makes it clear he doesn't want her to succeed. Add to all that the doubts about security and the overwhelming unhappiness in the country for all things Benedict Donald, and you end up with empty coffers.
And the Trumpsters just filed a financial report that showed how much a badly managed event could cost them: The star-crossed Tulsa rally, which Brad Parscale touted as a million-MAGAts strong — but which only pulled 6,200 people — cost $2.2 million. That's about $350 a person — a lot more than Ivanka Trump's skeevy handbags are fetching online these days. (Plus they must have taken a YUGE hit on all the Trumpy swag they were hoping to sell to those "overflow crowds." But nobody is talking about that.)
Benedict Donald's merry band of traitors knew that they couldn't afford another messy money-loser, so they pulled the plug. It's not about health. It's about (lack of) wealth. We cats HISS.
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