It's Brian Lehrer, and this is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Tuesday, May 26th.

Did you hear what President Trump threatened yesterday? He threatened to move the Republican Convention this summer

from Charlotte, North Carolina to some other state, unless Democratic Governor Roy Cooper there,

promises they can do it at what the president calls full attendance and fully occupied.

Reopening with full attendance, fully occupied. The governor is not

ready to promise that as of now he wants to see conditions on the ground closer to the date.

So I looked up last night, what is full attendance, the president's term? For the 2016 Republican Convention in Cleveland, 50,000 total visitors to the city for those four days.

Charlotte, you ready for this?

Is that really what the president wants?

And then see how many new infections break out in September after the August convention?

50,000 total visitors to Charlotte for that one week.

But that's the new fight he's picking, not just reopening with social distancing,

reopening with his words, full attendance, fully occupied.

Full attendance at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte is 17,000 people.

Alex Eisenstadt covers politics for Politico. Hi, Alex. Thanks for coming on on short notice this

morning. How are you? Hey there. Anytime. Thanks for having me. Does Trump really want a full

capacity convention? Well, look, he is certainly intent on

having a convention, an in-person convention. Now, that's different than what Democrats are signaling.

Democrats have signaled for weeks now that they're open to having, you know, heavily a virtual

convention when they gather in Milwaukee. Now, Trump really, you know, uh, heavily a virtual convention when they gather in, Milwaukee.

Now,

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