Derpist despite not holding any political office before surprisingly won the Dem primaries. He quickly attacked the Obama administration for selling out to the elites in this country . On the domestic and economic promised to raise the min wage, raise taxes on multinational corporations , and enact campaign finance reforms. He also attacked the Obama admin immigration policy , and saying that illegal immigrants depress wages for working class folks and benefit corporations , and promised to secure the border by building a wall deporting illegals and end all the unfair trade deals causing jobs to go overseas. Lastly he attacked the establishment for staying in a cold war mindset and promised to improve relations with Russia. He attacks moderate hero calling him a war monger , and the establishment we wanna defeat and mentions the fact that he didnt win the most delegates in the GOP primary , and infact lost to trump but worked with GOP to win at the convention calling that elitest.
On the GOP side Governor of Oregon Moderate Hero campigned on drastically cutting the budget, attacking the deficit as bankrupting the country. He also promised to cut taxes for the middle class saying that anyone making less then 125,000 should not pay more then 20% of their income in taxes. He also announced that subsidies to big corporations should end and promises to reform the welfare system so people on welfare get job training . His education policy was cutting spending of worthless degrees and using those funds to fund trade schools to bring back blue collar jobs He also planned to limit the size of government by repealing the patriot act, leaving issues like pot, and many other crime related issues to the states. He also called for a WW2 type of coalition to destroy groups like ISIS . He said his policy will take out terrorist training camps where ever they exist but unlike before not seek a policy of regime change which means we will destroy the camps in individual countries while leaving their governments in place.
Results: In a major change from 2012 moderate hero won over 2/3 of the hispanic vote , won 25% of the black votes, 70% of asians but did very poorly with working class whites which caused the Mountain West to flip and taking back a lot of the south
Gov Moderate Hero: 316
Derpist 222
