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Money, no ability to raise money. so that is why we moved the convention back to end of june, mid-july. so now the whole process can move forward without hamstringing your candidate. jenna: quick final question. money is obviously a key issue. the question when you have the convention brings up issue of debates as well. how will this impact the debate schedule? are you worried about voter fatigue from folks seeing the same person eventually again and again from june, july, on? do you think that could hurt your party? no. because the nominee is basically chosen in april or may anyway. even though mitt had a long primary he was our presumptive nominee before end of april. it was totally bruising, i think unnecessarily bruising primary. so what the convention does by moving it sooner, you actually compress the primary calendar so that now instead of having a six-month primary process, you might have a 60-day or 70-day process. ....
Point of contention as folks look back on the 2012 races and what was happening in key swing states like ohio. when will this convention be? i heard reports as early as june, maybe mid-july. the last convention, to our viewers mentioned was in late august. when will you hold it? yeah. so we have picked two different start dates that our legal team is negotiating with cleveland on. it is either going to start on june 28th, or it will start on july 18th. so, as you go through all these contracts, so people understand what goes into it, you have to obviously make sure you have enough hotel rooms. jenna: sure. in the case of cleveland, you have to make sure you get into this arena. if the cavaliers are in the finals, it makes things difficult for a june 28th start. these are all things the legal team will go to cleveland and work on. then we ll have announcement on a start date sometime soon. but we re excited about cleveland. we re excited about ohio. we re also excited about our part ....