2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/GOP: “Senate Republican Whip John Thune (S.D.) on Wednesday raised possible legal concerns when asked about President Trump potentially accepting the Republican presidential nomination on the South Lawn of the White House.
‘Is that even legal?’ Thune asked when reporters queried him about Republican National Convention planners thinking about having Trump accept his party’s nomination for a second term on White House grounds.
‘I assume that’s not something that you could do. I assume there’s some Hatch Act issues or something,’ he said. ‘I don’t know the answer to that and I haven’t heard him say that, but I think anything to do with federal property would seem to me to be problematic.'”
-Alexander Bolton, “GOP senator on Trump accepting nomination at White House: ‘Is that even legal?’,” thehill.com, Aug. 5, 2020