From a guide to Charlotte and Tampa, the sites of this year’s party conventions:

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Mr Nguyen: “There’s a very ghetto Vietnamese/Laotian bar called the Blue Bar, on Central Avenue. It looks like a lot of Vietnamese gangster thugs in a dark, loungey space, with hip hop music playing. It should be a D.N.C. hub.”