2024 Republican National Convention

On January 7, 2022, a spokesperson for the Republican National Committee said that four potential host cities have been selected for the 2024 convention: Milwaukee, Nashville, Pittsburgh and Salt Lake City.[6] Milwaukee was the host city for the 2020 Democratic National Convention, whose events had largely been held virtually and outside of Milwaukee due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[7] Milwaukee and Pittsburgh are both located in key swing states (Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, respectively) that have determined the winner of the Electoral College in recent elections, while Nashville and Salt Lake City are both the respective state capitals of Tennessee and Utah, which have been reliably Republican states throughout most of the previous half-century (even though the capital cities themselves are considered Democratic strongholds within their states). From 2008 through the 2020 election, both the Democratic Party and Republican Party have only held their conventions in swing states.[8] February 4, 2022, Pittsburgh's bid committee announced that their bid had been eliminated from further consideration.[9]

Kansas City, Missouri withdrew their bid in late December.[10] Houston had previously taken steps towards bidding.[11] Other locations that had, at one point, had an interest in hosting included Columbus,[12] Las Vegas,[13] San Antonio,[8] and the state of Georgia.[14]

If Milwaukee ends up hosting either the 2024 Republican or Democratic convention, it would be the first city to host major party conventions in consecutive elections since New York City hosted both the 1976 and 1980 Democratic National Conventions.[8]