- The 2020 Democratic National Convention will be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost in Wisconsin to President Donald Trump in 2016, which was seen as a crucial aspect of her ultimate defeat.
- Critics have said a big part of the reason Trump obtained enough electoral college votes to defeat Clinton (without winning the popular vote) because she neglected blue-collar states like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.
- In her memoir on the 2016 election, Clinton rejected the notion she didn't campaign enough in these states.
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Democrats have chosen Milwaukee to host their 2020 national convention.
The Democratic National Committee's decision will take the party to the heart of the working-class upper Midwest that delivered President Donald Trump to the White House.
Before 2016, Republicans hadn't won Wisconsin since 1984. Trump added Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania to upset Hillary Clinton.
Clinton lost to Trump in Wisconsin by less than 23,000 votes.
Critics have said the former secretary of state lost in states with large working class populations like Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin because she didn't campaign enough there.
Clinton in her 2017 book, "What Happened," rejected the notion she neglected these states.
"If just 40,000 people across Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania had changed their minds, I would have won," Clinton wrote. "With a margin like that, everyone can have a pet theory about why I lost. It's difficult to rule anything out. But every theory needs to be tested against the evidence that I was winning until October 28, when [former FBI Director] Jim Comey injected emails back into the election."
"For example, some critics have said that everything hinged on me not campaigning in the Midwest," she added. "And I suppose it is possible that a few more trips to Saginaw or a few more ads on the air on Waukesha could have tipped a couple thousand votes here and there."
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Clinton went on to say that her team knew how crucial the "industrial Midwest" was to her success and that she "didn't ignore those states."
DNC Chairman Tom Perez picked Milwaukee over Miami and Houston. It will be the first time in more than a century that Democrats gather in a Midwest city other than Chicago to nominate their presidential candidate.
Milwaukee will be one the smallest cities to host a presidential convention, topping two other finalist cities that have hosted national political conventions and Super Bowls.
The 2016 Democratic National Convention was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after a contentious primary season between Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders. The convention occurred right after WikiLeaks dumped emails stolen from Democrats and the Clinton campaign by Russian hackers, and was a chaotic affair shadowed by protests and allegations of rigging.