Milwaukee to Host 2020<br />Democratic National Convention The 2020 Democratic National Convention<br />will be held on July 13-16, two weeks earlier<br />than previous conventions. The DNC hopes this will allow<br />the eventual nominee more time<br />to utilize general election funds. The newly built Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee,<br />Wisconsin, will host the event, offering a<br />17,000 capacity arena. Milwaukee was one of three finalists<br />for the convention, defeating Houston and Miami. A deciding factor was Houston’s dominating oil and<br />gas industry, which would not have looked good for<br />the climate change advocating Democrats. DNC Chairman Tom Perez,<br />via CNN Wisconsin is a key Midwestern battleground<br />state that Democrats lost for the first time in<br />30 years during the 2016 presidential election. They did however gain back governorship of the state<br />in 2018 with the election of Tony Evers, and hope to secure<br />the support of the traditionally blue state in the 2020 election.
