It's January 20, 2025. What happened if the previous poster's person is president megathread?

[Pink Panther]

Jefferson discoverers the cure for cancer all by himself. He gets the Dem Nomination, while the GOP nominee is former Gov. Eric Greitens, who somehow loses in the MO-Sen race in 2022 after corruption charges. Jefferson wins and is inaugurated.

Bill Crosby

[MR DARK BRANDON]

Released from jail after it is discovered the allegations against him where false, decides to run for president and defeats Harris after she pivots to the right, defeats trump in a similar fashion that Biden did in 2020

[VBM]

MillennialModerate

[Alben Barkley]

As a consequence of increased pressure from “those damn liberal yankees” in protest of its new voting laws, Georgia secedes from the Union and becomes an apartheid state, declares war on Massachusetts, and begins launching terrorist attacks against it. MillennialModerate rises as a leader of the anti-Georgian resistance in MA, bolstered by the fact that he can credibly point out that he saw the Georgian menace coming years earlier by citing numerous Atlas posts. He rides his subsequent wave of popularity all the way to the White House (with his running mate Joe Kennedy III), as public sentiment nationwide turns against Georgia and in favor of Massachusetts. Despite all this, Georgia votes Democratic anyway (because TRENDS), even though MM confidently predicted not a single Georgian would vote for him. As election night wears on, MM continues to insist publicly on Twitter that he cannot win Georgia, even as it becomes clear he has won it and the networks call it. This humiliation results in him entering office with a record low approval rating for a new president.

Andy Beshear

[JoeInator]

Joe Biden suffers a heart attack in late 2022. It wasn't fatal, but severe enough for him to resign for his health. Kamala Harris becomes the next President and appoints Andy Beshear as her VP, and he gets confirmed easily. Just before the 2024 primaries begin, however, President Harris is assassinated by a domestic terrorist, putting Beshear in charge. He choose Tammy Duckworth as to be VP, and the Beshear/Duckworth ticket win in 2024 in a landslide, in part because of a sympathy vote.

Theresa May

[juulze68]

The US GOP and the UK Conservative Party merge. Theresa May wins on a platform of US statehood for the UK.

Dick Carlson (Tucker’s dad)

[Pink Panther]

Trump's heir is discovered to be Carlson, along with his endorsement. Tialib somehow successfully primaries Biden, as Carlson easily wins and is nominated.

Glenn Jacobs

[Starmerite2024]

Marsha Blackburn catches COVID and succumbs to it.
As a result of her death, a special election for the vacant Tennessee senate seat is held which Glenn Jacobs wins.
He runs in the 2024 GOP Presidential primary, shockingly defeating favourites such as DeSantis, Pence, Haley etc.
He then goes on to defeat an underwhelming President Kamala Harris who took over from Biden after Biden had a severe stroke in 2023 causing him to resign the presidency under the 25th Amendment

Jacobs flips Nevada, Wisconsin, Arizona and Georgia

[TheReckoning]

Me

[Starmerite2024]

TheReckoning shockingly successfully primaries a Virginia Republican congressman in 2022 and then goes on to win in November.
He then shockingly wins the Republican primary in 2024 beating out favourites such as Nikki Haley and Rick Scott and then surprisingly beats President Biden, going on to flip Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Arizona.

Byron Dorgan

[MR DARK BRANDON]

Becomes one of the main democratic critics in the Biden administration. Idk how but he just does. This causes him to come out of retirement and challenge Harris in 2024, who falters thinking she already won the nomination. He then goes on to beat the Republican nominee due to a strong performance in the Midwest

Me

[Pink Panther]

It's revealed Liam is Andrew Yang in disguise. He wins the NYC mayorship in 2021. In 2022, he successfully primaries Cuomo and wins the Governorship. After Biden refuses to run and Harris is embroiled with scandals, Yang is the nominee. The GOP nominates Ted Cruz, who is even more unpopular. Yang wins and is inaugurated.

Mark Wahlberg(In Marky Mark form)

[Utah Neolib]

The Biden-Harris administration is riddled with scandals, and the Democratic Party tries to find someone popular. They find Mark Wahlberg, an actor who could surely appeal to people. He gets the whole “liberal elite” attack, but it doesn’t hurt him much. He wins the 2024 Presidential Election.
(First post on this site for me!)


Young Kim

[MR DARK BRANDON]

Runs as a dark horse and her California primary win puts her on top. She then goes on to defeat Biden who has become very unpopular over his term as president

Jackie Chan

[Utah Neolib]

The democrats in 2022 remove the “you must be born in us or have a parent who has us citizenship” thing for presidential eligibility. Jackie Chan runs as a joke, he gets lots of write in votes as an independent and flips a few states. 2024 goes to the house. Jackie Chan is selected as the next president.



Spencer Cox

[Utah Neolib]

The democrats in 2022 remove the “you must be born in us or have a parent who has us citizenship” thing for presidential eligibility. Jackie Chan runs as a joke, he gets lots of write in votes as an independent and flips a few states. 2024 goes to the house. Jackie Chan is selected as the next president.



Spencer Cox

DeSantis wins, picks Cox as Agriculture Secretary. DeSantis has a serious health issue, and refused to become president. Vice President elect Haley also has some problems, and it goes down the line until the electors finally elect Spencer Cox


Brian Schatz

[beesley]

DeSantis wins, picks Cox as Agriculture Secretary. DeSantis has a serious health issue, and refused to become president. Vice President elect Haley also has some problems, and it goes down the line until the electors finally elect Spencer Cox

Is this how it works? I wouldn't have thought this could happen until Cox was confirmed. Unless you mean electors as in the EC who all decided to vote for Cox.

[Utah Neolib]

DeSantis wins, picks Cox as Agriculture Secretary. DeSantis has a serious health issue, and refused to become president. Vice President elect Haley also has some problems, and it goes down the line until the electors finally elect Spencer Cox

Is this how it works? I wouldn't have thought this could happen until Cox was confirmed. Unless you mean electors as in the EC who all decided to vote for Cox.

Your correct, the cabinet probably wouldn’t have been confirmed.....
Let’s just go with the EC voting for Cox scenario

Continue the Chain,
Brian Schatz

[Xing]

Biden decides not to run for a second term, and Harris wins the nomination, while choosing Schatz as her running mate. Before the convention, however, a huge, smoking gun comes out about Harris's tenure as AG, bad enough that Schatz is chosen as the nominee instead of her. While it causes Democratic poll numbers to initially plummet, Schatz manages to recover and narrowly win, thanks to DeSantis botching a hurricane response and facing negative coverage for it during the debates.

MR. KAYNE WEST

[Pink Panther]

To build up support from the internet, Biden creates the secretary of the internet, and goes to Atlas for his nominee. When choosing someone else, OC is accidentally confused for that person, and although Biden tries to stop it, OC is confirmed, and Biden has busier matters on hand. He wins re-election, but is revealed to have used election fraud after Congress certifies the results. Everyone in his administration was involved and resigns, except OC. He is inaugurated, but is later impeached and convicted in a week.

         EmpLemon

[Utah Neolib]

To build up support from the internet, Biden creates the secretary of the internet, and goes to Atlas for his nominee. When choosing someone else, OC is accidentally confused for that person, and although Biden tries to stop it, OC is confirmed, and Biden has busier matters on hand. He wins re-election, but is revealed to have used election fraud after Congress certifies the results. Everyone in his administration was involved and resigns, except OC. He is inaugurated, but is later impeached and convicted in a week.

         EmpLemon

Biden means to nominate someone totally different to be Deputy Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. A Biden Staffer, who helps Biden nominate people to the senate, is a member of TalkElections. He purposely misspells the intended persons name, and puts “UmpLemon is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Agriculture.” He gets confirmed by the senate, and is a good Deputy Assistant.  He is nominated to be Secretary of Agriculture after Vilsack retires in 2023. Somehow some people blow up the capital on Biden’s second inauguration, but UmpLemon was chosen to be designated survivor. He becomes president.
Pat McCrory

[hyouzel the predictor]

Wins the NC Senate race against Erica Smith in a hotly contested race. Trump dies in mid 2023 before making an official endorsement and DeSantis loses in 2022 to Debbie Wasserman in a massive upset in a R friendly year. McCrory faces a split primary and ends up winning a plurality of the primary electorate. Biden dies of a stroke in early 2024 and Harris runs and chooses AOC as her VP candidate, McCrory narrowly wins the PV and the election.

[Utah Neolib]

Wins the NC Senate race against Erica Smith in a hotly contested race. Trump dies in mid 2023 before making an official endorsement and DeSantis loses in 2022 to Debbie Wasserman in a massive upset in a R friendly year. McCrory faces a split primary and ends up winning a plurality of the primary electorate. Biden dies of a stroke in early 2024 and Harris runs and chooses AOC as her VP candidate, McCrory narrowly wins the PV and the election.

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Brian John
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[Torrain]

Brian John
(that was just an example)

Ok then.

In an ironic twist of fate, Welsh scientist and alt-history fiction writer Dr. Brian John is found to be the illegitimate child of Lyndon Johnson, providing him with natural-born American citizenship.

Using the media frenzy around his revealed parenthood to gain notoriety, John becomes a fixture on cable news, and quickly becomes a favourite of the left thanks to his plain-spoken ways and lilting Welsh accent.

To woo the Democratic base, John pivots to the environment, and uses his Doctorate in Geographical Studies (specialising in glaciers and the ice age) to put focus on climate change.

This is thought to damage his general election chances, but after a freak tsunami puts Miami underwater, the American public becomes convinced they need an ecologically minded President.

[Hope For A New Era]

You didn't say a person either, so:

Cindy Wilson (D-ID)