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"I
just wrapped an interview with @VP and he told me Pres Trump
will accept the nomination IN Charlotte on the Monday of @GOPconvention,"
North Carolina television reporter Tim Boyum said on Twitter.
Fox News' White House correspondent John Roberts later tweeted
that he was told that was not the case.
A transcript of Boyum's interview with Pence makes clear that
the nomination would occur in Charlotte, but it left some
ambiguity about where and when Trump would accept it, and Boyum
later noted on Twitter that Pence never used the word "speech."
"It’ll be here in North Carolina that we’re renominated by the
Republican Party," Pence said. "And I know the president --
we’re all making plans for him to accept that renomination here
in Charlotte, to acknowledge the great work of our delegates."
Trump said on Wednesday that he would be nominated on Monday,
Aug. 24, in Charlotte, but that he would speak on Thursday, Aug.
27, the convention's final day.
Trump, who had to give up on plans for a packed convention in
Florida as coronavirus cases surged there, has fallen back on
Charlotte as the main convention location.
He has been coy, however, on where he will deliver his
acceptance speech.
On Thursday, he told reporters he was still considering where to
make it, and said it might even be from the White House.
(This story corrects dates in paragraph 6 to Aug. 24 and Aug. 27
from July 24 and July 27.)
(Reporting by Tim Ahmann; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)
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