Medal506
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« on: January 02, 2023, 12:24:46 AM » |
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In 2006, Kay Bailey Hutchinson retired and Ted Cruz is elected to the senate. Everything else proceeds to happen the way it did except in 2012, Ted Cruz runs for president and ends up taking all the support Santorum would have gotten so Santorum and Perry both step out of the race before the primaries even start. Both Santorum and Perry endorse Cruz over Romney and Gingrich and Cruz wins Iowa and South Carolina while Romney wins Florida and New Hampshire. It’s a close race between Romney, Cruz and Paul but Gingrich withdraws early on after he loses in South Carolina and endorses Cruz. Cruz eventually wins the nomination and chooses Michelle Bachman as his VP.
Because Ted Cruz never made the infamous 47 percent comment and wasn’t as focused on social issues as Santorum was, he ends up defeating Obama in 2012 in both the PV and the EV. Obama concedes to Cruz but remains in the spot light in democratic circles and runs again in 2016.
In 2016, Obama runs for a third time and Clinton once again challenges him. Sanders also runs but doesn’t come close to Obama and both Clinton and sanders are defeated in the primary. Obama picks Terry McAuliffe to be his VP in 2016 since Joe Biden said he wouldn’t want the position again for family reasons (his son’s death in May 2015).
From 2013-2016 things pan out a little differently. In 2013 the Republicans won both the house and the senate giving them a trifecta government so gun legislation never took off. In 2014, ObamaCare was repealed through a skinny repeal and then it was replaced with a more privatized friendly healthcare plan that allowed for more competition in the market. In 2015, same sex marriage bans were struck down by Obergefell v Hodges and President Cruz did everything to oppose it but ultimately failed.
Who wins and what does the map look like?
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