Trump Visits Charlotte on First Day of Convention... Expected to Receive Official Nomination

During a presidential campaign rally, U.S. President Donald Trump left after delivering a speech at the 'Mariotti Building Materials' company in Old Forge, Pennsylvania, on the 20th (local time). President Trump plans to conduct intensive campaigning in seven states located in the Rust Belt, the declining industrial region around the Great Lakes.

U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to visit Charlotte, North Carolina, where the official nomination process for the Republican National Convention will take place on the first day of the convention, the 24th (local time), and deliver a speech, according to major foreign media reports on the 22nd.

Earlier, the political news outlet Politico also reported, citing officials, that President Trump is expected to stop by the nomination event held in Charlotte during his visit to North Carolina on that day.

While most of the convention schedule is being conducted virtually, the nomination process will take place in Charlotte on the first day of the convention with 336 delegates gathered. Due to the impact of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the number of delegates attending and the scale of the event have been reduced.

According to Bloomberg News and others, President Trump will arrive in Charlotte at 11:45 a.m. Eastern Time aboard Marine One, his official helicopter. However, specific details of his schedule while in Charlotte have not yet been announced.

This visit to Charlotte appears to be a strategic move by President Trump to differentiate himself from Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, who participated virtually in the convention from his home near Wilmington, Delaware, by engaging in on-site activities, despite the cancellation of a large-scale offline convention that Trump had been reluctant to give up until the last moment.

Additionally, it is analyzed that this visit also serves as an appeal to North Carolina, one of the six key battleground states (swing states).

In fact, on the same day, President Trump posted on Twitter, attacking Biden and the Democrats by saying, "Biden and the Democrats showed great disrespect to the great state of Wisconsin, which was designated as the site of the Democratic convention, by not even stopping in Milwaukee," thereby stirring up votes in Wisconsin, which was originally chosen as the Democratic offline convention site.

Later that afternoon, President Trump is scheduled to move to 'Flavor 1st Growers & Packers,' a farm and repackaging facility located in Mills River, where he will deliver a speech.

This company is related to the administration's "Food Box Packing for Families" program, which is part of the COVID-19 response efforts. His eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, Senior Advisor to the White House, will accompany him.

Meanwhile, U.S. media reported that President Trump will appear throughout the four days of the convention.

Ronna McDaniel, Chairwoman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), said in an interview with Fox News, "Voters will see the president every day during the convention," but refrained from giving specific details, saying, "I won’t say when because everyone will have to keep their channels tuned."

This indicates that President Trump is once again breaking the traditional format, which had candidates minimize exposure during the convention and receive the spotlight through a grand acceptance speech on the final day.

As a former reality TV show star, President Trump is striving to maximize differentiation from the Democratic convention held from the 17th to the 20th and to boost excitement at this Republican convention.

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