Grassley to Skip GOP Nominating Convention
Des Moines, Iowa – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley will not attend the Republican National Convention for the first time in his 40-year Senate career due to concerns about the coronavirus.
“I’m not going to go, and I’m not going to go because of the virus situation,” the Iowa senator said on a conference call last Monday with Iowa reporters.
He said moving the convention was probably the right thing to do since North Carolina officials didn’t feel it was safe to have a large gathering.
“If you want to have a convention, and I think we should have a convention, I think you should do whatever you can to make it as safe as possible, so that would be with face masks and social distancing,” Grassley said.
The convention is now scheduled to begin Aug. 24 in Jacksonville, Florida, where officials began requiring face masks in public a week ago. It has been hit especially hard, along with other Sunbelt states such as Arizona, California and Texas.
Asked whether he’d want to limit the gathering if the state’s coronavirus cases continue to rise, Trump replied that the decision “really depends on the timing.”
– Associated Press
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