Parrotguy/Kirsten Gillibrand (D) 291 electoral votes, 40% popular vote ThatConservativeGuy/Mitt Romney (R) 141 electoral votes, 37% popular voteTexArkana/John Bel Edwards (I) 106 electoral votes, 22% popular voteI run a populist, largely centrist campaign and spend most of my time campaigning all over the South, from Maryland to Texas, reaching out to rural blacks in the black belt and poor Hispanics in Texas, I tone down my perverted image and campaign as a socially liberal, fiscally moderate Independent, making special appeals to black voters based around the war on drugs and the negative effects that it's had on the African-American community, as well as emphasizing my ties to the community and sending my wife (I obviously have to marry her before I run for POTUS
) to campaign across the black belt. at the same time, I make appeals to rural whites and have Bel Edwards campaign for me in more white areas of the Deep South, which allows me to win most Southern states. Parrotguy runs as a third-way Democrat with a strong focus on foreign policy and national security, while the TCG/Romney ticket runs as a "return to classical conservatism" after 8 years of Trump. in the end, Parrotguy narrowly wins the electoral college and a slim plurality of the popular vote, with TCG running close behind and me lingering in the low to mid 20's. the closest states are Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina, Arizona, and New Jersey, where my suburban appeal takes away from Parrotguy and almost hands the state to ThatConservativeGuy. a majority of states are decided by less than 10% due to my strong third party candidacy.
