Video: The DNC chair said there are 18,500 hotel rooms a 15-minute walk from the Wells Fargo Center; we tried to find one

The 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philly begins almost exactly one year from now at the Wells Fargo Center. To mark the occasion, Billy Penn decided to engage in a fact-checking mission of DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s comment about hotels being really, really close to the Wells Fargo Center for the sake of any delegate, media member or political junkie who plans to attend.

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