A Nation at Cross Roads - A 2024 Election Game (Sign-up & OOC Thread)

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I take Marco Rubio

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btw, I think the 2024 Republican Convention might have to be held a little earlier in July as the 2024 summer Olympics in Paris start on July 26 2024 in order to make sure that people will get enough attention at the Convention and then to the Olympics.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Summer_Olympics

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Marco Rubio’s campaign announcement speech

Location : University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida

Date : June 26, 2023


Source : https://www.news-press.com/story/news/politics/2015/04/13/sen-marco-rubio-announces-presidential-plans-miami-gop-republican/25700237/

Hello, my fellow Americans!

I want to thank the University of South Florida for your wonderful hospitality and for being the site of one of my most important decisions for our country’s future.

For all my life, I have been blessed by the greatest nation in mankind’s history which is the United States of America, where my parents came to from Cuba, 67 years ago, in search of better economic opportunities after my father had to leave school to go to work when he was 9 and when his mother died and after my mother was one of 7 girls raised by a disabled father who struggled to provide for his family. Though my parents were not speaking English at that time, had no access to education and were living paycheck to paycheck, the hardworking of a bartender and a housekeeper allowed them to be successful and to make their children's lives better than theirs, to give them access to higher education and to give them all the opportunities they couldn't have earned themselves. Like every generation in American history, we owe a debt to this country, which is to make sure that our children will earn better opportunities than the previous generation as well as an America better off. So it is in order to pursue this fight for the American Dream that I decided to serve in public service.

I first served as county commissioner, then in the Florida House of Representatives, including as Speaker of the State House and then in the U.S. Senate where I got a record of achievement, notably the AGREE Act, the Regulation Costs to Small Businesses Act, my 2014 VA reform bill, these great sanctions on Hezbollah, my fight to double the Child Tax Credit from $1000 to $2000 in order to allow the economic prosperity our country is now living thanks to tax reform and free enterprise as well the Let Freedom Reign Act to provide military arsenal and training to the Venezuelan insurgency during the Venezuelan Civil War, which contributed to the success of Venezuela’s transition towards democracy after 2 decades of socialist dictatorship and oppression imposed by the Chavez/Maduro regime. All these legislations of mine reached bi-partisan support and brought both parties together to pass these bills into law to get things done for the sake of America’s progress and strength. An important part of my time in the Senate was marked by times of economic sluggish due to the previous administration’s big government and higher taxes that killed jobs, made us dependent on foreign oil, gave us the slowest economic growth in history and were leading us to a recession. This time was also marked by a rise of insecurity due to a rise of radical Islamic terrorism caused by the previous administration’s lack of leadership, cuts in the military and withdrawal from the world stage, which allowed ISIS to conquer a large territory in Syria and Iraq, contributed to a huge number of terrorist attacks on us and our allies and allowed Russia and China to challenge us in terms of military power. But everything has changed when we elected Donald Trump to the Oval Office.

Since President Trump took office, America made strong progress thanks to the Trump tax cuts that encouraged economic growth by making America a place open for business, encouraging free enterprise and strengthening the American people’s purchasing power. We abolished the Obama Administration’s War on Coal and encouraged clean coal technologies, took bold actions to take advantage of our own sources of energy, including oil, coal, solar, nuclear, wind energies and we are now on the right track to America’s energy independence. Thanks to the nomination of conservative judges to the Supreme Court of the United States, we gave power back to the states, defended the American people’s right to self defense through the protection of our Second Amendment rights, protected the life of the unborn and kept America safe. Under President Trump, we secured our borders and brought illegal immigration under control. He also kept America safe by reinforcing our military through an increase of defense spending and a return of American leadership on the world stage. As a result, we defeated ISIS in Syria and Iraq, abolished Obama’s Iran nuclear deal that was handing billions of dollars to that time’s largest sponsor of terrorism in the world and we managed to get North Korea to the negotiating table, which led the world to North Korea’s denuclearization and to a reinforcement of peace and security in the Korean peninsula and in the Pacific.

When Mike Pence announced his intention to retire at the end of President Trump’s first term, the President asked me to help him to fix America because he trusted my judgement enough to be his Vice-President and it is with love for my country, with determination to move America forward and to make sure our children as well as future generations will inherit a better America, that I accepted to be his Vice-President and I made history as the first Hispanic to become Vice-President of the United States, demonstrating once again that America is a land where everything is possible for all Americans. And it is under my leadership as Vice-President that we completed the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, making a step closer to America’s energy independence, that we assisted to the start of the denuclearization of Iran thanks to the election of a democratic government there and friendly to the U.S., leading to a normalization of the relations between our 2 countries. At that same period of time, we created the U.S. Space Force as the 6th branch of the U.S. Army, which helped us to protect our satellites against Russian and Chinese anti-satellite weaponry, to defend our country and our allies against any hostile hypersonic missile attack and to guide our troops in counter-terrorism operations.

However, our country is still facing challenges. And facing these challenges successfully requires strong leadership. And yet, many are the Democrats who are so obsessed in destroying the progress we have made in the last 7 years by making false accusations against Judge George C. Hanks aimed at ruining his reputation and sink his Supreme Court nomination. This is the most unethical sham we have ever seen in Senate hearings. This is the most embarrassing scandal for the United States Senate since the McCarthy hearings and the Kavanaugh hearings. What the Democrats want to do is simply to destroy this man’s life, hold this seat open, and hope they win in 2024 and fulfill this seat with a liberal judge in order to get us to a liberal Supreme Court, to restrict the Second Amendment, add more power to the government over the people, award terrorists detained in Guantanamo with constitutional rights and close Guantanamo, which would allow terrorists to be on the run once again and to commit attacks on us and our allies. Investigation has already proved that 3 of the 4 accusers were definitely false and Hanks has already confirmed not to have sexually assaulted the remaining accuser Kiara Alford and his fellow students agreed that they never saw Hanks and Alford even talking to each other. This sham has proven that the Democrats have learned nothing from their 2018 fiasco on Kavanaugh’s nomination. We will not let this witch hunt bringing Judge Hanks down and we will keep fighting to defend the American people’s freedom and constitutional rights. Less than a year ago, we have faced a recession caused by a contraction in economics, but we managed to counter it thanks to an effort by the Congress to pass a legislation to audit  the Federal Reserve to ensure the Fed’s transparency. And a recession is absolutely the worst time to raise taxes like our political opponents are seeking to do. And last year, we saw a rise of Boko Haram in Nigeria due to its radicalization efforts and the exploitation of oil resources from captured oil refineries, which allowed this radical Islamic terrorist organization to do strong progress in Nigeria. And it is in this context that they executed a terrorist attack in San Francisco where they killed 42 people through a suicide car bomb attack on a tramway and a shooting that was stopped thanks to the courage of local police officers who killed the jihadists implicated in this attack. After these tragic events, we made it absolutely clear that we will not back down and that we will defend America’s freedom, values and security against terrorism, barbarism and tyranny and that’s why both parties came together to grant President Trump the power to use military force to combat Boko Haram. And now we are fighting Boko Haram through airstrikes against these terrorists in West Africa and through a provision of military training to the local armed forces to help them defend their countries against terrorism. And Russia is representing a serious threat to world peace as they are disputing the territorial integrity of the Kuril Islands with Japan, as they violated the New START Treaty time after time through a reinforcement of their nuclear weaponry and as Vladimir Putin is attempting to stop the civilian protests in Russia through repression and unfair arrests. That’s why we need strong leadership to meet these challenges effectively.

You know, today is the 60th anniversary of President Kennedy’s Ich bin ein Berliner speech in which, in the context of the Cold War that saw a threat represented by communism towards freedom, democracy and free market, he declared « Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. » Today, I say all free people, wherever they may live, are citizens of the United States. And defending freedom requires encouraging opportunity for all the people, white, African-American, Hispanic, Asian, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, all the people. Opportunity is one of our country’s greatest values and that’s why we need to work together for opportunity : opportunity to prosper, opportunity to succeed, opportunity to live free, opportunity to live safe. The moreover that recently, this summer, my older son Anthony has become a high school graduate. That’s why we have this obligation to make sure that our children, including my 4 children, as well as future generations will earn all the opportunities that previous generations couldn’t have for themselves and will be the most prosperous generation of Americans that ever lived and like my father used to tell me : « en este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosostros no pudimos. » In this country, you will achieve all the things we never could. That’s how we’re going to defend America’s status as the land of opportunity where todo es posible. I have the right experience and background to do this and that’s why I’m here to announce that I am a candidate for President of the United States.

I know through my experience as Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship that growing this economy and creating jobs requires lower taxes for all Americans and all businesses across this country, making America the best place in the world to do business, taking advantage of all of our sources of energy and encouraging trade. That is exactly what I will do as President of the United States in order to get our country to full-employment. And in order to counter China’s trade power and to make America the most competitive nation in the world economy, I will promote free trade, so we can trade with the remaining 95 % of the world market as we are representing 5 % of the international market and I will do so while reducing our corporate tax rate to 15 % as well as taxes and regulations on businesses, including manufacturing businesses, in order to make it easy for them to do business in America, so we can keep American jobs here in the United States while encouraging free trade at the same time. Now that our borders are secured (with the completion of Trump's wall), I believe that time has come for us to reform our immigration system in order to make our society more inclusive and to allow immigrants coming to this country to earn the opportunity to have access to U.S. citizenship, to have access to higher education, to find good-paying jobs and to raise their families here on the land of opportunity. And I know through my foreign policy experience (as I served 10 years in the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations) that America’s security as well as peace requires strong American leadership, strong U.S. military, strong alliances and strong diplomacy. That’s why I will work hard to keep our military strong and modernize it and that way we will chase down and defeat terrorists wherever they are, keep our military power advantage against any geopolitical foe, defend territorial integrity around the world. And to make sure we will get the world to permanent nuclear security, I will work with our allies to ratify the Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty.

I can’t accomplish these goals without your help and that’s why I hope you will follow me in this long journey for America’s future and I’m asking for your vote, because if you do I will fight for you every single day of my presidency to make sure America will reach permanent economic prosperity, permanent security and peace and permanent freedom.

Thank you! God bless you and God bless the United States of America.


(Own creation)

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GoTFan requested an extension, due to a something personal. Thus, there will be a one week extension for everyone.

You mean a week subsequent to August 30?

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For all players, I have an interesting idea. We all know digital media is on the rise while msm is on the decline, so by 2024, digital media outlets such as Louder with Crowder, The Daily Wire, The Young Turks, and The David Pakman Show could have real influence in the elections via the news. So, how would it sound for you to decide whether you can have an interview on MSM or Digital Media and choose the outlet you're going on (Though The Young Turks will likely ban Rubio, Shapiro, and the like because those guys are pathetic).

Of course, tho, someone like Shapiro can't be interviewed on the Daily Wire because that's his website, his company, but he can be interviewed elsewhere.

How does this idea sound? (Yes, this includes the Joe Rogan Podcast)

So you say, and I expected it, that it would be easier for me to get an interview with Fox News or CNN than with The Young Turks as they are pure left-wing?

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Confirmed that Fox News will be the main coverage channel of the 2024 Primaries as well as 2023 Election Night, 2024 campaign analysis, and 2024 election night. First time this will be happen will be November 7th.

November 7th of 2023 or you mean the Iowa caucuses will be posted on next November 7th?

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Confirmed that Fox News will be the main coverage channel of the 2024 Primaries as well as 2023 Election Night, 2024 campaign analysis, and 2024 election night. First time this will be happen will be November 7th.

November 7th of 2023 or you mean the Iowa caucuses will be posted on next November 7th?

November 7th, 2023 (I figured out election dates)

Ah okay, so that also includes the 2023 gubernatorial elections and the special in UT-04.

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I need a extension, Been busy with school

Granted.

How much time?

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Are we still allowed to jump in with a character?

Yes, who would you like to be?

I'll be Andrew Cuomo.

Are we still allowed to jump in with a character?

Yes, who would you like to be?

I'll be Andrew Cuomo.

Granted. Be prepared for an announcement speech and a campaign schedule for November but also, feel free to request political endorsements.

Just to make sure it's clear for you, MAGugh, he means for November 2023.

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Are we still allowed to jump in with a character?

Yes, who would you like to be?

I'll be Andrew Cuomo.

Are we still allowed to jump in with a character?

Yes, who would you like to be?

I'll be Andrew Cuomo.

Granted. Be prepared for an announcement speech and a campaign schedule for November but also, feel free to request political endorsements.

Should I just start, then? Or wait?

Also, how do I request an endorsement?

You can start. The moderator is just telling you to start through an announcement speech and then a campaign schedule. For the endorsements, you just have to send the moderator a personal message about it.

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Alright everyone, GoTFan has offered to play as Senator Jeff Merkley. If it's alright, I'll give them a few days to post their turns and then I'll post the next turn.

Very good

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Reminder to UWS and Jaguar that the rest of your December schedules will be due in 11 hours and 25 minutes.

I think I will need an extension because I tried to develop the second part of my schedule yesterday but we’re now living a power cut at home, thus restricting my access to Wi-Fi and we don’t know how long this power cut will last.

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Major apologies to everyone, but I have to get some blood work done tomorrow, so the turn will be extended by a day or so. Sorry.

That's good. It will give enough time for NyIndy and Homosexual Extremist to post their campaign schedules.

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I'll also need an extension, potentially to this weekend.

As NTP said, it's until December 28 anyway so you have plenty of time.

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Just wondering, how did the Boko Haram terrorist who assassinated Senator Thune in the beginning of the last turn entered the United States?

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If there is a debate ahead of Super Tuesday, where will it take place, just wondering?

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Now what about the special elections that were held at the same day as Super Tuesday 2024?

As we can see in the beginning of the turn featuring Super Tuesday, there were 8 special House elections for the majority in the House of Representatives (it is currently 219-216 Republican) and the most competitive special elections were in AL-02 (Republican State Representative Wes Allen vs Democrat State Representative Kelvin Lawrence), CT-05 (Republican State Representative Richard A. Smith vs Democrat Geraldo Reyes Jr.) held by Republicans, RI-at-large district (Republican State Representative and Minority Leader of the Rhode Island State House Blake Filippi vs Democrat Newport Mayor Jamie Bova) held by Democrats and SC-01 (Republican Nancy Mace vs Democrat Joe Cunningham) held by Republicans. And most presidential candidates campaigned for their parties' congressinal nominees in those districts throughout this turn.

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And from when to when will we have time to post our campaign schedules until the coverage of the primaries in this current turn?

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And, just to be sure, as Kansas, Kentucky (R only), Maine (R only) and Louisiana will be held on March 9 2024 while the Puerto Rico primary (R only) and the Maine (D only) will be held on March 10 2024 and then Michigan, Idaho (R only), Missouri, Hawaii (R only), Mississippi, Northern Mariana and Democrats Abroad will be held on March 12 2024, will each of those primary contests be covered separately depending of the day these states/territories will be holding primaries or will they all be covered on the same day?

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We already have an extension until tomorrow as Gotfan requested to the moderator.

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I think you forgot to give the final results in Idaho on the Republican side and in Michigan and Louisiana on the Democratic side.

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I think you forgot to give the final results in Idaho on the Republican side and in Michigan and Louisiana on the Democratic side.

I explained it in my final post; I actually posted it, then accidentally overwrote it instead of copying and pasting the format to a new post. Percentage results are same as they are in the 11 PM post. Final delegate totals are accurate.

Okay, yeah I just saw it. Thanks.