The Republican National Committee recently narrowed down its list of cities to host the party’s 2024 national convention to two: Milwaukee and Nashville. But the original list from earlier this year included Pittsburgh. What scared the GOP off the Steel City?
Considering its outsize role in U.S. politics, Pittsburgh would have been an obvious choice to host the RNC. In the next presidential election, middle-class and grassroots issues will take center stage: reshoring jobs, fixing gas prices and supply chains, reopening and reforming schools, and rebuilding America’s shattered economy and small business community. Such concerns are especially pervasive around metro Pittsburgh, its surrounding counties, and neighboring Ohio and West Virginia – the epicenter of Republicans’ blue-collar future.
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