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[Progressive Pessimist]

2024-The Hawley era begins

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO)/Rep. Chris DiPiazza (R-NJ)-361 EV/53.2%
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA)/Gov. Jon Ossoff (D-GA)-177 EV/47.5%
Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, elected in 2021 after the retirement of Roy Blunt to become White House Chief of Staff for President Donald Drumpf, runs for president in 2024 after sterling conservative credentials and several legislative achievements including The Hawley Act (sweeping education reform).
Hawley wins the 2024 GOP nomination and picks rising Republican star Rep. Chris DiPiazza of New Jersey as his vice presidential running mate. Hawley/DiPiazza wins with 361 electoral votes, becoming one of the youngest presidential/vice-presidential pairs since Clinton and Gore in 1992. Hawley wins with 53% of the vote, compared with Democratic opponent Sen. Kamala Harris' 47% of the popular vote. Harris wins the 2024 Democratic nomination in a bitter ethnic battle, and the remnants of the nomination casts over to the general election. This is the Republicans' third consecutive electoral victory, first time since 1980/1984/1988 with Reagan-Bush.

https://savejersey.com/2018/01/di-piazza-paramus-council/

My version:

I see Hawley pulling it out in NJ..with Congressman DiPiazza (NJ-05) as his VP, DiPiazza helps him with suburban moderates and Bergen County goes GOP for first time since 1992.

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/paramus/2018/01/02/paramus-council-swears-26-year-old-republican-newcomer-and-democratic-incumbent/990532001/

https://savejersey.com/2018/01/di-piazza-paramus-council/

I actually went to middle school with Chris DiPiazza. It's strange enough having an old acquaintance on my town's council but to see him as a Vice Presidential nominee would be truly surreal. I have nothing against the guy but I doubt that I'd vote for his ticket, being the partisan Democrat that I am, I didn't even vote for him in the local elections. Still though, a Vice President DiPiazza would probably be the most famous person to have come out of Paramus since Stacey Dash.

[Progressive Pessimist]

2016 if we lived in a functioning Democracy:

Neither Hillary or Drumpf won the popular vote

You have to get over 50% of the Popular Vote to Win it

Clinton still got the most votes though. I don't think he's suggesting that a majority wins as opposed to simply getting more votes.

[Progressive Pessimist]

2016 results if Drumpf won 48.1 percent and Hillary 45.9 percent, so if it were the other way around

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2016 if Drumpf actually won an absolute majority of the popular vote. Like say 51 percent to 43 percent

It's interesting how the top map might very well, realistically, be his absolute ceiling. It just proves further how much of an advantage that Republicans have in the electoral college. A Democrat probably needs a plurality of at least 3.5% to win at all.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Power Vaccuum: The 2028 Republican Primaries

Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska (25 contests won)

Gov. Carlos Curbelo of Florida (12 contests won)

Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas (8 contests won)

Sen. Justin Amash of Michigan (6 contests won)

Senator Justin Amash? I hope we're spared of that in real life.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Based off a 2016 game from here: https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/

Former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton / Senator Cory Booker: 354 EV
Mr. Donald Drumpf / : 184 EV

Clinton embraces several progressive positions, and even goes as far as to pledge to only serve one term. Drumpf collapses at a rally only days before the election, causing many to question his health. Closest states are Utah (8,000 votes), Alaska, Montana, Arizona, Texas, Georgia, Indiana, and SC.

I got a result similar to that once on that game with Clinton/Castro following a very similar progressive campaign (minus Trump collapsing and the one term pledge) and got the same map plus Arizona. I haven't been able to replicate it since though. I think I got lucky with the debate question where Trump absolutely humiliated himself.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Based off a 2016 game from here: https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/

Former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton / Senator Cory Booker: 354 EV
Mr. Donald Drumpf / : 184 EV

Clinton embraces several progressive positions, and even goes as far as to pledge to only serve one term. Drumpf collapses at a rally only days before the election, causing many to question his health. Closest states are Utah (8,000 votes), Alaska, Montana, Arizona, Texas, Georgia, Indiana, and SC.

I got a result similar to that once on that game with Clinton/Castro following a very similar progressive campaign (minus Drumpf collapsing and the one term pledge) and got the same map plus Arizona. I haven't been able to replicate it since though. I think I got lucky with the debate question where Drumpf absolutely humiliated himself.

The debate question actually gives you a different result depending on which of the 3 options you pick. You can cheat and figure out which is which by using inspect element on google chrome (though you have to memorize which id number goes with which result, since the id number that shows up is the only bit of information inspect element gives you).

I didn't know about that ability to cheat. I already knew that each of the three debate questions  gave one of three results though. When I said that I got lucky, I meant that I got the one that is positive for my campaign.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Supplementing my dumb meme presidents thing

2036:
Senator Leigh (OK) / Governor Emily Peebleton (NC)
VP Nikki Haley / Representative Elise Stefanik (NY)

2040:
Governor Laura "Koopette" (IA) / Governor Joanna Campbell (IL)
President Leigh (OK) / Vice President Emily Peebleton (NC)

2044:
President Laura "Koopette" (IA) / Vice President Joanna Campbell (IL)
IDK two centrists or something

2048
Former VP Peebs / Senator Weather Boy
VP Joanna Campbell / Governor W.X. Transit

The election comes down to SC, which, thanks to the selection of popular senator Weather Boy as VP, goes to Peebs by only 4,973 votes.


that's it for now.

And then...

MN comes down to 500 votes.

Governor wxtransit/Senator DFL
VP Weatherboy/Governor Ninja

2056

Senator Sestak/Governor MB
President W. X. Transit/Vice President DFL
Governor Landslide Lyndon/Fmr. Sectetary James Monroe

CA is the decider for majority, down to four-figures.

2060

President Sestak/Vice President MB
Governor Grassr00ts/Senator TheSaint250
Televangelist King Lear/Representative Hofoid

Televangelist King Lear! That's hilarious but that hilarity dies when I see that his running mate is hofoid. What a horrifying pair!

[Progressive Pessimist]

Fmr. First Lady Melania Knauss (I-N.Y.) / Sen. Stephanie "Stormy Daniels" Clifford (R-La.)
Pres. Donald Drumpf (R-N.Y.) / Vice Pres. Michael Pence (R-Ind.)

This would be some glorious retribution! I would probably have little confidence in Melania (I guess this assumes that her being foreign born doesn't matter in this scenario) and Stormy governing but I probably wouldn't be as miserable as I am with Trump/Pence in the White House.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Guess

Governor's control at some point in the 90's?

No, the answer is actually in the map itself if you pay attention to a particular detail.

something involving senior senators?

Nope

Even electoral votes vs. odd electoral votes.

ding ding ding!!

I feel stupid for not noticing that before.