Tampa, Florida: US presidential election campaign has been badly disturbed on Sunday by tropical Storm Isaac as Republicans had to make changes to their national convention in Tampa, Florida.
The storm was now forecast to hit land midweek, possibly even blasting into New Orleans at hurricane strength on the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
Keeping in mind that the Isaac would hit Tampa, the event organisers has cancelled Monday’s opening events.
Republicans this week are to formally nominate Romney and vice presidential running mate Paul Ryan as their candidates to face President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden in the November 6 election, Reuters reported.
“It’s a concern … competing with a major weather event,” Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus told ABC’s “This Week.”
Still he said he expected independent voters particularly will tune in to hear Romney and Ryan speak. “I think we’ll still get a fair amount of attention, and the message will be good.”
“We’re going to tell the Mitt Romney story, we’re still going to prosecute the president on what he promised, what he delivered, and why we think we need to save this country and put Mitt Romney in the White House,” he said on CNN.
The importance of the convention for Romney cannot be overstated. Running either even with Obama or slightly behind him, Romney needs a bounce in the polls from the convention.
The storm expected to be at or near hurricane force when it swept across the Florida Keys by Sunday evening, the NHC said. A storm becomes a hurricane when sustained winds reach a minimum of 74 miles per hour. At least six people were killed when it moved across Haiti.
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