The president recently canceled plans to deliver his keynote convention speech in Jacksonville, Fla.
Donald Trump on Monday said he would accept the Republican nomination for president in North Carolina, marking a return to a state he spurned in June over its restriction of large gatherings due to the coronavirus.
The announcement is the latest development in Trump’s Republican National Convention walk-back and comes days after the president canceled his plans to host the convention’s keynote events in Jacksonville, Fla.
“I’ll be in North Carolina, and that’s a very big deal because we have a lot of the delegates there and that’ll be a nomination process,” Trump told WRAL, a Raleigh, N.C. television station. “And that’s essentially where the nomination, where it’s formalized. And I’m really honored to do it in North Carolina.”
Trump told WRAL he would announce the exact location of his acceptance speech in the coming week.
Before the coronavirus pandemic, the Republican National Convention was set to take place in Charlotte. But as cases and deaths mounted in North Carolina over the spring, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper insisted a scaled-down convention was necessary.
Trump bristled at the possible denial of a blockbuster event and wrote on Twitter on June 2 that he would be moving the main action of the convention away from North Carolina.
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President Trump said today he would accept the Republican nomination for president in North Carolina, marking a return to a state he spurned in June over to its restriction of large gatherings due to coronavirus https://t.co/NJf76vCgRc
— POLITICO (@politico) July 28, 2020
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