Secret Service Unlikely To Move Rnc Protest Zone

Taegan Goddard, Political Wire
Wed, 05/15/2024 - 3:20am

“As Republicans put pressure on the U.S. Secret Service to move an expected protest area farther from the Republican National Convention in downtown Milwaukee, the agency appears unlikely to change its plans,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.. “Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, Florida Sen. Rick Scott and aides to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell raised the security concerns in separate meetings Tuesday with Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle.”

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