2016 Republican Primaries:
John Kasich - 33.-% of primaries from beginning to March 15Ben Carson - 29.7%Marco Rubio - 25.3%Other: 11.4%
Placeholder: 0.1%
Contest Ends March 19
On the Democratic side in 2016, Biden wins Iowa, South Carolina, Georgia, and North Carolina from the beginning to Super Tuesday.
In Iowa, it had the following results:
Iowa Caucus:
29.1% - Joe Biden
27.7% - Bernie Sanders
26.2% - Hillary Clinton
15.1% - Martin O'Malley
1.9% - Others
While Sanders won New Hampshire, O'Malley ran a strong GOTV campaign and took Nevada. Sanders dropped out soon after, as O'Malley took the lead in Minnesota and Massachusetts.
Finally, Biden won in 2016. Running with a one-term promise, Newsom as his running-mate, and Christine Todd Whitman chairing his Republicans for Biden group, he narrowly lost to Kasich. Kasich had Evan Bayh chairing his Democrats for Kasich group.
Kasich implemented an economic stimulus, made the individual mandate in ObamaCare optional, and offered an additional billion dollars in Medicaid expansion dollars.
While McCaskill and Donnelly narrowly held their Senate seats in 2018, many Democrats lost in more Republican states. Kasich's C. I. A. Director, Pete Hoekstra, authorized the assassination of the Iranian leader by revolutionaries who asked for funding. While funding was refused until a rebellion began, they agreed to try to remain neutral.
This was agreed upon with Prime Minister Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom after satellite pictures recorded violation of the treaty. Angela Merkel of Germany was also included in the authorization of the plan.
Kasich's Secretary of the Interior, Larry Pressler, helped pass a fifty-and-a-half cent gas tax on imported oil and ten-and-a-half cent tax on local oil. A quarter of the revenue from this went to infrastructure repair, another quarter went to the economic stimulus, and half went to a rainy day fund.
Following this, a revolution of republicans spread throughout Iran. Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi helps lead by refusing Ali Khamenei's order to destroy it at once. Vahidi instead orders his armies to move to the border with ISIS to prevent intervention from ISIS and having the ability to turn and hit a Turkish intervention hard.
Vahidi joins generals there and reinforcements send by Khamenei's orders in taking a neutral stance in the New Iranian Revolt. When Khamenei was declared an outlaw by the new Karbaschi government, Vahidi immediately lead a force against Khamenei's attempts to break out to the Assad government. Reza Naqdi, the commander of Khamenei's break out force, lead his dozen best men and Khamenei while leaving the rest of his army behind in an attempt to sneak into Syria. Vahidi was on watch that night with his son and nearly fifty men.
Vahidi and his son's men captured the group easily. Upon being informed of the capture of their leader, the remaining eight thousand soldiers quickly surrendered. The officers and commanding staff would be shot to encourage the rest of Khamenei's loyalists to surrender. In his declaration of surrender, Khamenei encouraged his surviving loyalists using a secret code. Constantly drumming his fingers in seemingly random order throughout the video, the message was later shown to be: "After my death, follow Naqdi and Soleimani."
Quickly securing the country, Vahidi helped to institute a fairly democratic state. At the urging of U. N. Ambassador Huntsman, President Kasich sent over nearly 15,000 American troops to help stabilize the country. Korbaschi's new fairly centrist "Nation Reform Party" would be opposed by Khamenei's former supporters under Naqdi - the "Iranian Islamic Party" - the party which helped to instute a monarch, the "Royalist Party of Iran" for the centre-right, and a centre-left "Social Democratic National Workers of Iran" party under Hassan Khomeini.
The Royalists prevented any party from gaining an early majority by receiving about 45% of the old regime's supporters, about 30% from the Reformists, and nearly a quarter from socialists. They did this by gathering the traditionalists who either opposed the strict oppression of Naqdi or the radical reform of Karbaschi through the endorsement of Vahidi.
Vahidi himself became their champion and was elected Vice President with 52% of the vote.
President:
Reform: 33%
Islamic: 31%
Royalist: 20%
Socialist: 14%
Other: 2%
Vice President:
Vahidi
(250/250)The Chamber of Iranian Deputies:
111 Reform under Korbaschi
61 Islamic under Naqdi
48 Royalist under Qalibaf
29 Social Democratic under Khomeini
1 Independent
Eventually, Qalibaf agreed to serve as Deputy Prime Minister, while Khoemeni would be confirmed as Vice President after Vahidi succeeded to the Presidency. This gave them a 178/125 Majority. Naqdi would slowly lose supporters to the Royalists, who helped only moderately reduce social views of the previous administration.
Naqdi's supporters who mainly focused on either economy or morality slowly moved over to the other Royalist or Social Democratic camp. Eventually, as they became more mainstream in each of these, a few from each camp of the moderates moved over to the Reformists. Finally, this gave them 120/250 - a 45% Minority. They formed a minority "Reform Government", which would slowly but surely secure its stability.
Kasich's Cabinet:
Secretary of State: Jeff Flake(R-AZ)*
National Security Advisor:
Liz Cheney(R-WY)Secretary of the Treasury: Charlie Baker(R-MA)
Chairperson of the Federal Reserve: Robert Zoellick(I-IL)
Secretary of Defense: Michael Powell(R-DC)
Attorney General: Ken Cucinelli(R-VA)
Secretary of the Interior: Larry Pressler(I-SD)
Secretary of Agriculture: Joni Ernst(R-IA)*
Secretary of Commerce: Carly Fiorina(R-Ca)
Secretary of Labor: Norm Coleman(R-MN)
Secretary of Health and Human Services: Tevi Troy(R-MD)
Secretary of Education: David Boren(D-OK)
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Josh Romney(R-UT)
Secretary of Transportation: Kevin Martin(R-NC)
Secretary of Energy: Christine Todd Whitman(R-NJ)
Secretary of Veterans' Affairs: Robert Gates(R-KS)
Secretary of Homeland Security: John Bolton(R-MD)
U. N. Ambassador: John Huntsman, Jr.(R-UT)
U. S. Trade Rep.: Evan Bayh(D-IN)
New Rep. Of the 29th District of Texas: Sarah Ann Davis(triumphed over Lucas Babon)
After a tough Democratic primary fight between Gene Green, Kathyrn Whitmire, Clarence Bradford, and Orlando Sanchez, the Democratic convention chose Andrea White as a compromise candidate. While Gene Green had officially retired, a spokesman announced he would accept if the convention nominated him.
New Rep. of Minnesota's First District: Tim Penny(Independence-Republican)
Penny originally ran as an Independent, and was shown coming behind Mike Maltz but leading Marty Seifert in a tight race. Seifert, at his party's convention, endorsed Penny and convinced his party to back Penny. With that, Penny immediately took a two point lead over Martz. That would continue to grow as Norm Coleman and Tim Pawlenty and Marty Seifert campaigned heavily in the First District for him.
In 2018, Davis would be elected Governor emerging as a compromise candidate between the Perry-backed Abbott machine, the Cruz-backed State Sen. Krause, and the George P. Bush-backed Villalba. Villalba gladly conceded to the more experienced Davis. The more libertarian members of Cruz's supporters quickly capitulated to the compromise, and Perry quickly hastened to support her. She chose George P. Bush as her running-mate.
2018 in Ohio:
Mary Taylor and Kenneth Blackwell run again with high approval ratings against Todd Portune and Nicholas Celebrezze. They narrowly triump 50-48.
2017 in NYC:
Bill De Blasio is primaried out by Melissa Mark-Viverito, who narrowly beats Dan Doctoroff of the Republicans and Henry Stern of the Independence and Liberals. Mark-Viverito is not challenged from her right by Cuomo's men due to fear of splintering the "electable" vote.
2020:
- Assad & Rebels in peace agreement; Assad has most of the coast, while the rebels have the northern tip and a long extent inland under the "Democratic Republic of Syria"
- Kurdish have seized control of all Kurdish majority parts of Turkey, Iran, Syria, and Iraq
- Turkey partially funding Kurdistan & DRS as a buffer against ISIS
- Avg. Annual income at $39,990
- Unemployment at 5.0%
- Balanced budget
- Economic stimulus
- Minimum wage on avg. per state nationwide: $9.47.5
So, in 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom and Senator of New Jersey Cory Booker face the incumbent. Who wins?
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