President Donald Trump’s advisers are looking at holding a GOP convention in Las Vegas in 2026 after he announced that the party will break from the norm of having conventions only in presidential election years.

“The Republicans are going to do a Midterm Convention in order to show the great things we have done since the Presidential Election of 2024,” Trump wrote in a September Truth Social post . “Time and place to be determined. Stay tuned, it will be quite the Event, and very exciting!”

In an August post written while he was still considering a midterm convention, Trump said such a thing has “never been done before” by the Republican Party.

Las Vegas has made the shortlist for the event’s location, people involved in the discussions told the Wall Street Journal

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