But it's a different world, and it will be for a little while," Trump added.Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry thanked the president Thursday night in a Trump had been scheduled to deliver his acceptance speech on Aug. 27, the 60th anniversary of Florida is one of the battleground states most critical to Trump's re-election. Ron DeSantis about his decision and that the governor had not pressured him. A Yahoo News/YouGov survey found that 51 percent of respondents said the country would become less safe if Trump won reelection, compared to 39 percent who said the same for Biden. He narrowly won the state in 2016, taking 48.6 percent of the vote to Hillary Clinton's 47.4 percent.Democrats have planned for Biden to accept the party's presidential nomination at a nearly all-virtual convention in Milwaukee the week before the GOP event. "I could see the media saying, 'Oh, this is very unsafe,'" Trump said. We were never taking that off," Trump said at a news conference at the White House.Trump said it was "not the right time" for a big convention, adding that he had "to protect the American people. "Trump's plans for Jacksonville appeared to be in peril this week when the The convention had also been struggling to raise money from donors, Republican sources said. Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano slammed the Trump White House’s deployment of militarized federal agents to Portland, Oregon, in a new op-ed that warns of America’s slide into totalitarianism. “But we don’t think of it that way. Those statistics led Joe Biden, Trump’s opponent in this year’s general election, to revive Clinton’s call to retrain coal workers. “I really do believe governors should be opening up states they’re not opening, and we’ll have to … "I don't want to be in that position. They showed Biden leading Trump by 9 points in Florida , up 2 points on the president in North Carolina and Georgia , and perhaps the most surprising of all, leading Trump — albeit by a single point — in the state of Texas . “Anybody who can go down 300 to 3,000 feet in a mine sure as hell can learn how to program as well,” Biden said at a December campaign event in New Hampshire. Many At his news conference Thursday, Trump announced that he would throw out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium on Aug. 15. President Trump continued to urge states to reopen their economies Monday despite the sharp increase in the number of Americans testing positive for COVID-19 in recent weeks.
Fox News, a network friendly to Trump but whose pollster Trump has often criticized, released its own swing state polls Thursday. The latest news, opinion and analysis on Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States. "We'll announce what we're doing, how we're doing it, whether it's something that's done online," Trump said, lamenting that "there could be nothing like our last convention, unfortunately. Trump said he would make an announcement in the coming days about new plans for the convention, saying it would be in a "different form" from the large arena event he had hoped for. Trump has repeatedly attacked news agencies for reporting on polls unfavorable to him and even sent a “cease and desist” threat to CNN last month for broadcasting a poll that showed him trailing Biden by 14 points. ""That was a great convention. We will be starting in North Carolina for the Monday, as has always been planned. Trump said his decision was based on safety concerns and the media backlash he thought he would get. WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will no longer hold a large, in-person "I told my team it's time to cancel the Jacksonville, Florida, component of the GOP convention. Mariano Rivera, the legendary New York Yankees closer who is the only unanimous first-ballot Hall of Fame inductee, was seated in the briefing room for the announcement.Trump's announcement came as Dr. Anthony Fauci was preparing to throw out the first pitch Thursday evening as the World Series champions, the Washington Nationals, open the shortened baseball season against the Yankees.Lauren Egan is a reporter for NBC News based in Washington. President Donald Trump has visited the US-Mexico border to celebrate the construction of more than 200 miles of wall, hoping it will remind voters of progress he has made towards one his 2016
"Trump said he would make an announcement in the coming days about new plans for the convention, saying it would be in a "different form" from the large arena event he had hoped for.