Harry Parker chose Lamar Alexander as his running mate, promising greater action on the farm crisis, not to raise taxes, comprehensive healthcare and education reform, and a negative tax for small businesses. He attacked Michael Dukakis for the Massachusetts prison furlough program and being a "coastal elitist" and "Massachusetts liberal". His running mate was Lamar Alexander.
During his presidency, Parker expanded disability rights, reformed healthcare with a prescription drug benefit to Medicare, $35,000 tax credit, healthcare vouchers, wider HSA deductibility, the deregulation of private insurers and malpractice reform, created an $50,000 tax credit and $45,000 tax deduction for those starting new businesses, closed the gun show loophole, unsuccessfully tried to amend the constitution to ban abortion and balance the Budget, implemented standardized testing for education while expanding school vouchers and trade schools, slightly increased farm subsidies while importing food and exporting other crops, started to provide grants to city police departments, eliminated government programs, raised taxes on the wealthy and eliminated duplicate government programs, signed nuclear control treaties with the Soviet Union, invaded Panama while overthrowing Saddam Hussein following his invasion of Kuwait, tried to include greater protection for American manufacturing into NAFTA, and expanded offshore drilling.
In 1992, Harry Parker ran for reelection focusing on the war in Iraq, promising not to withdraw until the country was stabilized, while attacking Bill Clinton for his marijuana use, draft dodging and affair with Gennifer Flowers; he also promised to provide tax breaks for companies avoiding outsourcing, make the Hyde Amendment permanent, increase the tax deduction for new businesses, implement "common-sense" gun reform, and create TANF. His broken "no new taxes" promise and the war in Iraq (Bill Clinton supported a gradual withdrawal) caused a defeat.
Bill Clinton's presidency was mostly similar to OTL, other than a pullout from Iraq starting in January 1994.
Lamar Alexander called for tax cuts, greater funding for standardized testing, welfare reform and shifting the military's focus to counterterrorism. He chose John Engler as his running mate, but gaffes commited by Lamar Alexander, and a scandal hurt his campaign.
