Democrats choosing the Windy City over Atlanta and New York for their 2024 gathering send a clear message about the party’s focus.
to reject Atlanta, with its right-to-work law, non-union hotels, and anti-union Republican statewide leadership.to ensure that Democrats didn’t leave Chicago with any debts may have been key. After all, Pritzker is wealthy enough to redeem that promise personally if need be.
In the end the 2024 Democratic convention is likely to be a tightly choreographed celebration of Biden’s presidency and a springboard to the general election campaign, much as the Chicago convention was in 1996 when Bill Clinton and Al Gore began building the rhetoricalthere and Democrats bounced back from midterm losses to win an easy presidential reelection.
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