According to the WaPo, North Carolina officials and the RNC were working productively until Trump flipped over the table.
A source familiar with those negotiations tells me there wasn’t anything contentious in them, and that the RNC had not insisted on an immediate guarantee that the convention could proceed at “full attendance.”
In other words, things may have been proceeding in a relatively rational manner. Then Trump erupted.
DU thread:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016256591
Original:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/26/trumps-rage-another-governor-is-uglier-than-it-first-seemed/