2024 US Presidential Election
After the disastrous Chris Christie presidency, American politics shifted radically to the left as the recession returned with a vengence in 2018 and the alliance of centrist, "serious people" Republicans and Democrats imposed harsh austerity measures and entitlement reform. One of the leading voices of this new movement to the left was Governor Adam Fitzgerald of Ohio who led the new burgeoning Social Democratic movement in the Democratic Party. He easily gained the nomination in 2024 and chose to balance the ticket Senator Mung Beans of California who was seen as a hawk and slightly more socially conservative but still dedicated to economic reform. Meanwhile the Republican Party had shifted radically and been taken over by a burgeoning "National Cogendist" movement which preached protectionism, anti-immigration rhetoric, and foreign policy isolationism but also became more willing to intervene in economic matters. The leader of this movement was Senator Snowstalker of Pennsylvania who like a certain Italian a century before had undertaken a significant shift in his views from socialism towards a more nationalistic ideology. Famous for his March to Washington of his blue-shirted National Cogendist Volunteer Corps, he managed to easily win the nomination for President. As a minor concession to the old guard of the GOP, he nominated the centre-right, Representative Oldiesfreak of Michigan as Vice President. This ticket thus became the first all non-white major party ticket in American history. The election campaign was spirited with FitzGerald denouncing Snowstalker as a "fascist" who would bring tyranny to the United States while Snowstalker argued that FitzGerald was a moderate and especially condemned his running-mate as representative of the old political order. Snowstalker succedeed in forging a hitherto unusual coalition of working-class whites in both the North and South along with blacks, the far right, and the far left. FitzGerald by contrast did best with middle-class voters and professionals. The election campaign saw much violence with numerous allegations of murders and violence at polling places along with fraud. Noentheless when the votes were finally counted, FitzGerald narrowly won Florida and Wisconsin (while still losing the closely contested states of Florida and Illinois) and thus won the election to become the 46th President of the United States of America.
Governor Adam FitzGerald (D-OH)/Senator Mung Beans (D-CA)-270 EVs, Senator Snowstalker (R-PA)/Representative Oldiesfreak (R-MI)-268 EVs
