[ May 5, 2024 ]
Chicago? With it’s no anti-law enforcement radical hard-left Mayor? This is deliberate. It will make the 1968 Chicago riots look like a country fair.
https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1645600442439831552?s=20
Chicago to host 2024 Democratic National Convention
The Democratic convention, to run from Aug. 19-22, 2024, is expected to draw up to 50,000 visitors to Chicago. Chicago last hosted a convention in 1996.
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WASHINGTON — The Democratic National Committee selected Chicago to host the 2024 Democratic National Convention, the Sun-Times has learned, with the city beating bids from Atlanta and New York.
The convention will take place Aug. 19-22 next year. It is expected to draw between 5,000 and 7,000 delegates and alternates and attract up to 50,000 visitors to Chicago.
Evening events will be at the United Center — the main site of the 1996 Democratic convention in Chicago — with daytime business to be conducted at the McCormick Place Convention Center, the location of the 2012 NATO Summit.
Delegates will be housed in about 30 hotels in Chicago.
For more than a year, Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., a co-chair of the Democratic National Committee and Mayor Lori Lightfoot have led a drive for Chicago to host the Democrats in 2024.
President Joe Biden called Pritzker to tell him about Chicago’s selection on Tuesday morning before leaving for Ireland.
Biden has been planning to seek a second term with his team putting together his reelection campaign. He will make an “official” announcement at a later date.
By selecting Chicago for the convention, Democrats are highlighting the importance of the Midwest “Blue Wall” states — Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota. The governors in these states, all Democrats, were all reelected in 2022.
How Chicago was pickedChicago’s convention backers highlighted the abundance of downtown area union hotels; the large, centrally located convention venues near hotels; Midway and O’Hare airports; and the restaurants and museums in the city.
Then there were the political considerations. One of the main political arguments Chicago backers used was putting the convention in the Midwest reinforces the “Blue Wall” battleground states beyond the solid blue Illinois.
Last month, Democratic officials from Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri and Indiana — all supporting Chicago’s bid — wrote to Biden and DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison, underscoring the importance of Michigan and Wisconsin in retaining the White House in 2024.
Wisconsin’s election last Tuesday also reinforced the “Blue Wall” when voters in the Supreme Court contest, for the first time in 15 years, switched the court to a liberal majority when Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz beat former Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly, a conservative supported by Republicans.
The convention will showcase the Biden agenda, values and the president’s accomplishments. The policies and agendas of Biden and Pritzker are closely aligned.
Illinois has an assault weapons ban, abortion rights locked in and workers’ rights laws. Pritzker’s Rebuild Illinois capital plan and the city has been boosted by Biden’s signature infrastructure law. In January, Vice President Kamala Harris visited Chicago to announce $144 million in federal funding from the infrastructure law to rehabilitate the Illinois International Port Calumet River Bridges.
Chicago was chosen after getting top grades in an evaluation by the DNC’s Technical Advisory Group, a panel of experts considering factors such as hotel capacity, transportation, security, financing and other logistics.
Last year, the Technical Advisory Group visited the four cities bidding for the convention: Chicago, Atlanta, New York and Houston. Houston dropped out months ago when it was clear the Texas city didn’t have a chance to be picked. In the meantime, the DNC started contract negotiations with the other cities.
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7 Comments
1 year ago
AWESOME! Now, all you criminals, GO GET ‘EM AND DO WHAT YOU DO BEST!
1 year ago
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TomSJr
Yeah this could be a golden opportunity for the local Hood Rats and assorted riff-raff to thin the Deep State/Demonrat herd.
GO THUGS GO!!!!!!!!!! GO THUGS GO!!!!!!!!!
D
1 year ago
I really didn’t think there could be a worse mayor ANYWHERE in the US after Lori Dykefoot. Congratulations, Chicago….you managed to go from ABSOLUTELY terrible to EVEN WORSE in just one election.
1 year ago
The US is an emigration country, not an immigration country.
The criminal carrion-eating “immigrants” just don’t know that yet…
D
1 year ago
Same O Same O message. Chicago is only going to get worse with a mayor who does look at the facts of how Chicago got where it is today. Chicago is a black city run by black mayors who refuse to look at the real cause of the destruction of Chicago.
D
1 year ago
Oh, the muggers and carjackers are thrilled to hear this. They will clean up. Not to mention all the homosexual prostitutes who will line up outside the hotels.
1 year ago
I can’t wait to see this!
