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On Friday, the RNC gave in to Donald Trump's wish and updated its bylaws to allow the Party to hold a "midterm convention" to highlight all of Trump's "achievements," like deporting hundreds of thousands of people. The idea is to get Republican voters all fired up to vote. The Republicans have never held a midterm convention before, but the Democrats held some in the 1970s.
The most likely locations are Las Vegas or Dallas, probably in the early fall, just before early voting starts. The convention would be very different than presidential nominating conventions, where the delegates are elected during the primaries. The RNC is not planning to have elections for delegates. Most likely, each GOP state party would send the allowed number of party hacks to the convention, all carefully vetted to make sure they toed the party line.
Unlike the nominating conventions, where there is sometimes some excitement, such as "Who will the veep be?," this one is likely to be very predictable and not good television, so ratings could be disappointing. It may attract some of the MAGA faithful, but probably not a lot of others. That said, Lee Greenwood can surely use the work. (V)