CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FLORIDA/GOP: “This afternoon, my political team came to me and laid out our plans for the convention in Jacksonville, Florida. It’s a place I love. I love that state. The drawings look absolutely beautiful… But I looked at my team, and I said, ‘The timing for this event is not right. It’s just not right with what’s happened recently — the [coronavirus] flare up in Florida — to have a big convention. It’s not the right time.’
It’s really something that, for me — I have to protect the American people. That’s what I’ve always done. That’s what I always will do. That’s what I’m about.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing,” whitehouse.gov, July 23, 2020