Senator Bernie Sanders / Senator Sherrod Brown (Democratic) - 482 EV (44.2%)Governor Mitt Romney / Governor Scott Walker (Independent Republican) - 39 EV (38.1%)Governor Roy Moore / Congressman Steve King (Republican) - 17 EV (16.6%) Roy Moore manages to get the Republican nomination for AL-Gov in 2010, wins, then wins reelection, then runs in 2016 and narrowly defeats Donald Trump and John Kasich (Cruz loses his social conservative traction to the more overwhelmingly conservative Roy Moore). Moore picks Congressman Steve King of Iowa as his running mate.
Shortly after the RNC, it is revealed that Moore had inappropriate relations with underage girls, leading many in the Republican Party disendorsing Moore and urging him to drop out. Moore refuses, and on August 16th, former Governor Mitt Romney announces that he will run against Sanders and Moore as an "Independent Republican," calling both major candidates as "deeply flawed" and "toxic for America's future." Two weeks later, Romney announces that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker will be his running mate.
For the debates, Sanders, Moore, and Romney were all invited to the first debate, however Moore refused to attend. For the second and third debate, only Sanders and Romney were invited.
Despite his hopes of completely replacing Moore as the Republican nominee, the Republican hopes of winning 2016 were crushed by a split vote, causing Bernie Sanders to win a landslide despite winning a plurality in the popular vote. Romney managed to outpace Moore in both the popular and electoral vote. Romney also managed to make a strong showing in the typically Democratic northeast, namely the New York and Philadelphia suburbs, coming in 2nd place in nearly every state in the region.
