Josh Barro on Substack: "I don’t believe convention siting decisions have large effects on election outcomes, but I’m still baffled by the choice of Chicago to host the DNC. It will help amplify Republican attacks about crime and dysfunction in a city everyone agrees is troubled, and help Republicans ti…"

April 11, 2023

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I don’t believe convention siting decisions have large effects on election outcomes, but I’m still baffled by the choice of Chicago to host the DNC. It will help amplify Republican attacks about crime and dysfunction in a city everyone agrees is troubled, and help Republicans tie Biden to the city’s new left-wing mayor. And for no political upside, since Illinois is safely Democratic anyway. A weird unforced error. nytimes.com/2023/04/11/us/politics/chic…

nytimes.com

Chicago Will Host 2024 Democratic Convention as Party Returns to Midwest

For their flagship gathering, President Biden and Democrats chose a city in the heart of a battleground region, which had argued that it embodied the party’s liberal values.

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