The feud between North Carolina and the GOP over the 2020 GOP convention continued today. NC Gov. Roy Cooper made it clear, a normal convention isn’t happening in Charlotte:

“The people of North Carolina do not know what the status of COVID-19 will be in August, so planning for a scaled-down convention with fewer people, social distancing and face coverings is a necessity,” Cooper wrote in a letter to the Republican National Committee.

Cooper later told reporters:

“We think it is unlikely that we would be to the point at the end of August to be able to have a jam packed 19,000-person convention in the Spectrum arena,” Cooper said. “So the likelihood of it being in Charlotte depends upon the RNC’s willingness to discuss with us a scaled-down convention, which we would like to do.”

And so the GOP will be visiting Nashville later this week, and is also considering Las Vegas, Orlando, Jacksonville and Atlanta. It would be an incredible logistical feat to pull off a convention in another city at this late stage, not to mention in the middle of a pandemic. As of today there are only 83 days before the convention starts.