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Pandemic alters political conventions – which have always changed with the times

  • Written by Daniel Klinghard, Professor of Political Science, College of the Holy Cross
imageThe spectacle at the 2016 Republican National Convention will not be repeated in 2020.AP Photo/Matt Rourke

Politics, like everything else in American life, is being reshaped by the pandemic and by technology. Democrats will hold almost all of their 2020 nominating convention virtually. Republicans have not moved their convention online – deleg...

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