RNC leaning toward Milwaukee for convention

A GOP web site choice panel advisable Milwaukee to host the 2024 Republican Nationwide Conference.

• That makes Milwaukee the doubtless, however not sure, alternative. The total Republican Nationwide Committee will think about the advice when it meets Aug. 2-5.

Why it issues: Nashville had been in rivalry for the conference, however an effort to put the groundwork for a deal faltered after pushback from key Metro Council members.

Driving the information: Metro Councilmember Robert Swope instructed Foremost Road Nashville final week he plans to re-file laws for town to enter into an settlement to host the conference. The proposal can be on first studying on the Aug. 2 council assembly.

• Republicans in state authorities have additionally mentioned a particular legislative session to bypass Metro and attain an settlement immediately with the RNC.

Fast take: It will likely be an uphill climb for the laws to even clear its first studying, and a particular session can be a rare measure within the house stretch of lawmakers’ election campaigns.

• Which means the most probably situation is that Republicans will maintain their conference in Milwaukee whereas Metro leaders brace for a bruising battle with state lawmakers who’re indignant over the state of affairs.