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2032 Presidential Election - Runoff

With the dissolution of the old parties after The Troubles (2021-2030), the American electoral landscape became a brave, new Wild West. Strange and novel coalitions emerged, fueled in part by the trauma of the past decade and the ever-mounting threats of climate change and the People's Republic of China. With President Torie (Liberal-New York), who had presided over the government of reconciliation (alongside Speaker of the People's Soviet FuzzyBear (Christian Democrat-Florida) and Prosecutor General Badger (Progressive-Ohio), vowing to step down after one term, the 2032 presidential election became a ruthless free-for-all. After the first round of elections in America's new two-tier presidential system, the remaining contenders for the presidency were the relatively young Scott of Montana, a legislator and Cathcon of Michigan, a career bureaucrat. In the election's first round, the pair had beaten out other rising stars of their generation, such as famed intellectual Nathan (Christian Labor-New York). Scott and Cathcon had both politically come of age in the rough-and-tumble atmosphere of the chaotic 2020s, but had walked away from that fateful decade with different conclusions. Scott, having witnessed atrocities committed by federal agents and corporate security forces on both sides of the civil conflict against farmers, women, and indigenous people, promised to "eviscerate" the security state and expel extraction companies from native and public lands. Cathcon, meanwhile, having served as one of the many bureaucratic cogs in the process that allowed for national reconciliation in 2030, proudly campaigned as the champion of a new American identity that would be literally constructed through a spate of public works programs meant to build resilience against climate change and "shore up America's coastlines against the rising tides of global warming and Red China".

The geography of each candidate's coalition was determined by factors that would have seemed wholly alien to those of us here in 2022: the West, scarred by wild fires and year of intense massacres, took an insular and anti-federal view in the new age while also shifting well to the left on environmental concerns. Coastal states, meanwhile, battered by the worst storms in decades, clamored for federal spending on disaster mitigation projects. This was of special concern for American exclaves in Alaska and Hawaii, as they were also situated in proximity to China's sphere of influence. While Cathcon appeared to be leading through his triangulation between conservative cultural areas, manufacturing zones, and hubs of the bureaucracy, he made a late-in-the-game gaffe. At the third presidential debate, when the topic of racism came up, while Scott gave a fairly conventional answer surrounding reparations and radical restrictions of police powers, Cathcon proclaimed "William Tecumseh Sherman did not go far enough", and launched into a tirade about the need for a "new American Caesar". While the bedrock of his coalition held firm, a series of anti-Southern statements spanning decades emerged. This, combined with his "pro-federal government" stances, served to sink Cathcon in the South, and gave Scott victory.



People's Deputy Scott (This Land is Your Land-Montana)/People's Deputy Discovalante (This Land is Your Land-Maryland) 280 electoral votes
Former US Ambassador to Koenigsberg Cathcon (Deep Statist-Michigan)/Minister of Revenue Collection & Securities Regulation RealisticIdealist (Deep Statist-Washington) 258 electoral votes