The achieve programming executive for the dnc and what during this pandemic did you realize you were going from a more normal convention to one that is more virtual . As the pandemic was unfolding in the early months of this year we were hopeful by moving the dates back by one month we could still hold a physical convention were delegates could come to milwaukee and to produce a traditional convention. Pretty soon after that as a lockdown continued it was clear that wasnt going to happen. So we started to plan for a convention that is fairly unconventional compared to years past, pretty early. It took a while to figure out what it would be and how we handle so all americans feel they can participate. Because the benefit, there are a lot of downsides now more americans can participate you dont need credentials to participate. Host clearly these are unchartered waters know parties ever gone through Something Like that. No. Never. That we have been looking at a lot of other programming ov
Of the event spanning several days, which is expect it to be scaled back due to the coronavirus pandemic. We spoke with one of the Convention Planners to find out what to expect. Stephanie, at what point during the pandemic did you realize you were switching from a more normal convention to one that would be more virtual . We were hopeful as the pandemic was unfolding in the early months of this year, moving our dates back by a month, we were hoping we could still hold a physical convention where delegates could come to milwaukee and we could conduct Party Business but also produce a traditional convention. Pretty soon after that as the lockdown continued, it was clear that wasnt going to happen so we started planning for a convention that is fairly unconventional compared to years past but it has taken a while to figure out exactly what it will be and how we handle ensuring delegates can feel like they can participate and all americans, because the benefits there are lots of downsides
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A statement saying that they respect britains decision but in the last 24 hours or thirtys in spain have been stressing that they think their country remains a safe place and that they are on top of what they call localized outbreaks now the British Government has been on the defensive in the last couple of hours because people have been questioning why it was brought in this position of coron team with such short notice and theres also an argument about the infection rates some of the Spanish Press have been arguing that this is unfair because although. On friday the number of new covered cases in spain was around 100 its still in the hundreds here in the u. K. And by some estimates its far higher possibly higher than in spain well britains foreign secretary dominic robb has been on television in the last couple of hours stressing that they got the information on friday but they only assessed it on saturday and that they had to act quickly in order to avoid the possibility of what he
At what point during the pandemic did you realize you were switching from a more normal convention to one that would be more virtual . We were hopeful as the pandemic was unfolding in the early months of this year, moving our dates back by a month, we were hoping we could still hold a physical convention where delegates could come to milwaukee but also traditional convention. Pretty soon after that as the lockdown continued, it was clear that wasnt going to happen so e started planning for a convention that is fairly unconventional compared to years past but it has taken a while to figure out exactly what it will be and how we handle ensuring delegates can feel like they can participate and all americans, because the benefits there are lots of downsides, we are not physically together but the upside is more americans can participate. You dont need a credential to participate in the convention. These are uncharted waters. No party has ever gone through something quite like this. No. Nev