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Democrats Move National Convention Online

Democrats Move National Convention Online

Rick Weiland Photo: WNAX


The Democratic National Committee announced this week that the party’s National Convention, originally planned for Milwaukee on August 17th through the 20th, would be held online due to the coronavirus.

Rick Weiland of Sioux Falls, an at large delegate for Joe Biden, says he thinks the convention can work that way…

Weiland says he hasn’t seen all the meeting details yet..

Weiland says the convention is usually a nationally broadcast show to start the presidential campaigns….

South Dakota democrats will send twenty-one delegates and three alternates to the convention.

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