Now that Donald Trump and the GOP have a hold on every branch of government, they're considering unique opportunities to remove major events from blue states into their own red states where their politicians and donors would benefit.
Conservatives have already been advocating California have the Olympic games taken away from them due to the wildfires.
The New Republic pointed out that Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) endorses the idea but specifically suggests that the games be held in a red state instead.
“I’m wondering if you think the Trump administration should seriously look at moving the Olympics to a red city where you know things are gonna be run properly, like a city in Florida, maybe Miami, or maybe Dallas in Texas, or maybe a city in your home state of Ohio,” he said. Newsmax host Rob Finnerty began the segment "I’m not convinced that California can manage the Olympics, the World Cup, and the Superbowl, all within a year of each other."
There are currently about 66,400 hotel rooms in the city of Miami and the Olympic Committee requires at least 40,000. But their rules also mandate a place where 15,000 athletes, referees, and officials can be housed.
“Yeah, especially when they’re spending time quote ‘Trump-proofing’ their state, looking for ways to set up barriers and obstacles to what the American people elected us to do, particularly, I think, when it comes to this whole immigration and repatriation issue,” Jordan agreed. “So we’ll see. I’ll leave that up to President Trump and his team."
“But I do think the American people rightly see how poorly that state is being run,” Jordan added.
Trump told local organizers in Feb. 2020 that he fought to get the games in LA.
“From the day I took office, I’ve done everything in my power to make sure that LA achieved the winning bid. Now, for the third time in history, the city of Los Angeles—the ‘City of Angels’—will once again raise up the Olympic Torch and welcome the world’s greatest competitors to the Summer Games," he said, according to a release from his previous administration.
The Olympics are such a huge event that Paris, for example, sold 9.5 million tickets for the 2024 Olympics. Columbus, Ohio, is the state's largest city, and 913,175 people are expected to live there in 2025, the Census Bureau calculated. The Columbus Dispatch reported in 2015 that the city has 26,794 hotel rooms.
