Report: Possible spots for Trump's convention speech include Gettysburg, Mount Rushmore


In what sounds like a challenge lifted from an episode of The Apprentice, President Trump's aides are scrambling under limited time to piece together four days worth of Republican National Convention programing.
Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, senior adviser Hope Hicks, and chief speechwriter Stephen Miller are among the White House officials involved in the convention planning. One of their major tasks is to scout the perfect location where Trump can deliver his renomination speech, and they only have a few weeks to get everything finished, as the convention is set to start on Aug. 24, with Trump giving his address three days later.
While the parties and programs that were to be held in Jacksonville, Florida, have been canceled, Trump has said he will go to Charlotte, North Carolina, to thank delegates who will be there for official party business. When it comes to his renomination speech, six aides involved with the efforts told The New York Times they are thinking big, with the Liberty Bell, Mount Rushmore, and a Gettysburg battlefield just some of the places where Trump might deliver the address.
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Gettysburg was suggested because Trump likes to compare himself to Abraham Lincoln, aides said, and one White House official told the Times the president is also agreeable to the idea of giving multiple speeches in different historical locations. There was also talk of first lady Melania Trump speaking from Seneca Falls, New York, where the first women's rights convention in the United States was held in 1848, with advisers thinking this would help Trump's sinking numbers with women. This idea was scrapped when they realized there wasn't enough time to make it happen, the Times reports.
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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