Dems Pick Milwaukee for 2020 Convention Over Miami, Houston

Dems Pick Milwaukee for 2020 Convention Over Miami, Houston
The downtown skyline of Milwaukee on March 7, 2018. Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP
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MILWAUKEE—Milwaukee will host the 2020 Democratic National Convention, party leaders announced on March 11, selecting a battleground state that unexpectedly helped deliver Donald Trump to the White House as the site of a presidential nomination that could oust him.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez chose Milwaukee over Houston and Miami after deliberations lingered longer than party leaders or officials from the three finalist cities had expected.