NEW: Democrats choose Chicago for 2024 convention
in all three cities, but those in Chicago argued that picking a right-to-work state like Georgia would create major tensions with labor unions and white-working class voters just two months before the election.
Democrats hosted their 2020 convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers' urging. This is the first normal convention since Democrats went virtual in 2020 because of the pandemic, and the first time hosting in Chicago since 1996 — when the party nominated Bill Clinton for president and Al Gore for vice president.The Democratic National Committee decision also comes the week after Brandon Johnson, a progressive Democrat, won theafter a contentious battle over how the party should handle crime in big cities.
President Biden's relationship with Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who's considered a political and financial leader within the party, fortifies the decision to host there.Democratic leaders from each city pressed DNC members for months and focused their pitches on how their respective regions would impact not just nominating, but electing the next president.
It gives them an opportunity to tout the White House's economic agenda and infrastructure successes, and re-focus on manufacturing as a way to appeal to middle-class voters.
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