I'm just glad we get the dark, smoke-filled rooms back. It's an American political tradition!
But really, half of the point of a convention is to drum up media coverage. It's not a grand strategy to exclude the MSM, it's an admission of defeat. It's entirely possible that three weeks before the convention, no one in the GOP is quite sure what will happen, and cutting back the media access is likely to keep things from getting worse.
Meanwhile, we in the Democratic Party have been planning on a "virtual" convention for months. Bernie and Biden's folks have been negotiating the party platform for months, too, because they knew they wouldn't get to do it in person at the convention. This is this election in a nutshell -- do you want to vote for the people who plan for things far in advance? Or do you want to choose the people who always assume the best, and then scramble to fix things when they don't go to plan?
But really, half of the point of a convention is to drum up media coverage. It's not a grand strategy to exclude the MSM, it's an admission of defeat. It's entirely possible that three weeks before the convention, no one in the GOP is quite sure what will happen, and cutting back the media access is likely to keep things from getting worse.
Meanwhile, we in the Democratic Party have been planning on a "virtual" convention for months. Bernie and Biden's folks have been negotiating the party platform for months, too, because they knew they wouldn't get to do it in person at the convention. This is this election in a nutshell -- do you want to vote for the people who plan for things far in advance? Or do you want to choose the people who always assume the best, and then scramble to fix things when they don't go to plan?
"Kitto daijoubu da yo." - Sakura Kinomoto