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US President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he might give his acceptance speech for a second term nomination from the White House, a breach of longtime tradition.<\/p>\n
"We're thinking about it. It would be the easiest from the standpoint of security," Trump told Fox News.<\/p>\n
The August 27 speech, the biggest formal moment in the candidate's campaign for a second term in office, was originally planned for a mass gathering of Republican Party faithful in Charlotte, North Carolina.<\/p>\n
That had to be scrapped due to the coronavirus lockdown, as did a bid to restage the event at a new location in Florida.<\/p>\n
Incumbent presidents are required to separate their campaigning from taxpayer-funded governing, so it would be at minimum a break with decorum to use the iconic White House as the stage for the acceptance speech.<\/p>\n
Trump said on Fox News that logistics and costs were his primary concern.<\/p>\n
"It's a very big operation," he said. "We're thinking about doing it from the White House because there's no movement. It's easy. And I think it's a beautiful setting."<\/p>\n
It's "by far the least expensive from the country standpoint," he said.<\/p>\n
Trump however added that "if for some reason if someone had difficulty with it, I could go somewhere else."<\/p>\n
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Republican delegates will meet in a scaled-back session in Charlotte to nominate Trump on August 24.<\/p>\n
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/p>\n
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