Iowa is Rubio Country

[Goldeneye]

>67 Republican Senate seats

what a dystopia.

Even worse than our time line.

I would much rather have Trump as president than 67 Republican senators.

What a sore loser you are, Solid4096. It's his timeline so stop busting his b**ls.

In this timeline, thanks to President Rubio's competent leadership, America is safer, stronger and more prosperous. We are better of than we were four years ago.

[UWS]

Prediction: The heavy-hitters of the Democrats won't run, and they'll nominate a sacrificial lamb to lose to Rubio.

Question: How has former Rubio opponent Hillary Clinton viewed Rubio's presidency? She strikes me as the type to admit when her former opponent is doing something right, (pretty much only with regards to Rubio's foreign policy but still I'm curious)

While Clinton has different views than him on health care, taxes, energy and environment, she praised President Rubio's foreign policy that eradicated ISIS in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and North Africa and almost in Syria and contributed to the operation that killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. She also praised President Rubio's move to reform America's immigration system as well as his ability to find common grounds on free trade by promoting free trade while also cutting taxes for America's manufacturing industry.

[2016]

I got to wonder if we see a Photo-Op of President Rubio with former SoS's Clinton & Kerry during the next two years on a big Foreign Policy Initiative. That would make Sanders pretty mad I would think.

[UWS]

Marco Rubio's Presidency
January 2019, Part 2

January 17 :

-President Rubio announces that his first presidential trip to Cuba will be set next summer after Cuba will have elected its first democratic government.

January 18 :
-President Rubio speaks on the phone with Somalian president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and later with Ethiopian president Mulatu Teshome with whom he concluded an arms deal providing U.S. military arsenal to the HACP like included in the proposed Africa Counter-terrorism Initiative Act of 2019.

January 19 :
-Senate hearings to confirm Raul Labrador's nomination as U.S. Ambassador to Cuba started.

January 20 :
-Second anniversary of Marco Rubio's inauguration as President of the United States.

January 21 :

-The House of Representatives votes 299-121 for the Africa Counter-Terrorism Initiative Act of 2019 that is later signed into law by President Rubio, thus providing $700 million in support to the Horn of Africa Counterterrorism Partnership as well as the necessary military, material, training and intelligence support to combat radical Islamic terrorism (including ISIS, Al Qaeda and Al-Shabaab) in the Horn of Africa. Among the U.S. arms provided, there are M1 Abrams, Boeing AH-64 Apaches, MGM-140 ATACMS and A-29 Super Tucanos.

January 22-25 :

-President Rubio arrives in Davos, Switzerland along with international leaders in the context of the annual World Economic Forum held Davos. The theme is « Shaping Innovation for Global Freedom and Prosperity ». The President of the United States highlights America's strong economic growth thanks to his Administration's tax cuts and free enterprise and free market policies that made the United States the best business-friendly environment in the world. He declared that this status is about to be reinforced by the adoption of the Rubio Administration's infrastructure plan that encouraged public/private partnerships in order to fund infrastructure programs and ensure the implementation of new businesses in America. He also enjoyed this occasion to underline the advantages of free trade that is now more favorable for workers thanks to tax cuts on manufacturing businesses and thanks to a reduction of the corporate tax rate. President Rubio's speech has convinced several investors and business people to invest in America. Due to America's rapid transition to energy independence, he managed to woo French investors with electric industry skills in order to help American electric and nuclear industries to grow thanks to their nuclear technologies adopted by France, one of the greatest electric powers in the world.

January 23 :
-The House of Representatives unanimously approves the North Korean Human Rights Reauthorization Act of 2019.

January 24 :

-The Senate votes 81-19 in favor of the nomination of Raul Labrador as U.S. Ambassador to Cuba. He is later sworn-in by Vice-President Haley.

January 26 :
-President Rubio signs the North Korean Human Rights Reauthorization Act 2019, thus providing humanitarian assistance to North Koreans inside North Korea; providing grants to private, non-profit organizations to promote human rights, democracy, rule of law, and the development of a market economy in North Korea; increasing the availability of information inside North Korea and providing humanitarian or legal assistance to North Koreans who have fled North Korea.

January 27 :
-Just like all his predecessors did, President Rubio meets with Henry Kissinger at the White House where both men discussed global affairs.

January 28 :

-Following the recent arms sales to the HACP, the Rubio Administration decided, in order to further increase America's support to the local armed forces, to reinforce the U.S. Navy's presence around the Horn of Africa in order to bombard Al-Shabaab's coastal positions and to eradicate Somalian piracy that is funding regional radical Islamic terrorist groups through the money they take through hostage-taking. The decision is officially announced by Secretary of State Lindsey Graham.

January 29 :

-President Rubio delivers the 2019 State of the Union Address.

Maintaining multiple accounts

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

>67 Republican Senate seats

what a dystopia.

Even worse than our time line.

I would much rather have Trump as president than 67 Republican senators.

What a sore loser you are, Solid4096. It's his timeline so stop busting his b**ls.

In this timeline, thanks to President Rubio's competent leadership, America is safer, stronger and more prosperous. We are better of than we were four years ago.

And you created duplicate accounts just to insult people who criticize your timelines, and to make your timeline seem more popular than it actually is?

[NewYorkExpress]

In case you haven't heard, this TL's creator made multiple accounts to rig election games, several of which featured Senator Rubio.

Here are some better TL's to peruse:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=264326.0

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=258555.0

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=172956.0

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=174827.0

[Jaguar4life]

Hey even check out my TL Make My Day

[MycroftCZ]

Or mine: Hillary Wins

[Huey Long is a Republican]

Or my 2/3: Every Man A King; 1988: Clinton Runs; Dukakis Loses; A New Blue Dog for America's Health

[Grassroots]

Or mine: Hillary Wins

Bye Bye.

[Huey Long is a Republican]

Or mine: Hillary Wins

Bye Bye.

Lol.

[MycroftCZ]

What?

[UWS]

President Marco Rubio's Second State of the Union Address
Part 1

Mr. Speaker, Madam Vice President, Members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans : every year, we can't stop thinking about the future. And this year, it's clear that we can do it with great optimism and enthusiasm. Last year was a year of great reforms and successes for America.

[Applause]

We are living a time of prosperity. Thanks to our efforts, thanks to the promotion of free market, free enterprise, lower taxes, energy independence and free trade, we created over 9 million new jobs and we brought our unemployment rate at its lowest rate in 50 years.
 
[Applause]

Our first goal is to make America the best business-friendly environment in the world. And that's we are doing since the last 2 years by cutting taxes for all Americans and for all businesses and by lowering our corporate tax rate. Last year, we took bold actions in order to boost America's infrastructures by encouraging fiscal responsibility, by reducing the federal gasoline tax, by turning back control of the highways to the states and by promoting public-private partnerships in order to fund infrastructure programs here in America. Several private businesses, including James Group International, HNTB Corporation, AECOM and Jacobs Engineering Group, partnered with the U.S. Department of Treasury in order to develop new infrastructures around the country. As a result, we will reinforce the dynamism of our country as well as innovation, we're going to facilite our nation's economic activities and we're going to convince our future business owners that America is the best place in the world to do business, which will further encourage job creation thanks to the ingenuity and entrepreneurship of the American people.

[Applause]

Our second goal is to make America energy independent and we are about to accomplish this objective by the end of this year. Last year, we opened our coasts to offshore drilling and by building a transcontinental pipeline, we facilitated oil transportation. We are about to invest a part of the revenues from oil drilling into the development of renewable energies, including solar, wind, nuclear and hydroelectric energies. America is now finally taking advantage of all of its sources of energy.

[Applause]

This will not only encourage strong job creation for this country without any increase of taxpayers' fiscal burden or our businesses' fiscal burden, but it will also give the world a clean environment thanks to a reduction of air pollution and thanks to an improvement of America's ecological footprint.

[Applause]

Our third goal is to reinforce our trade ties with our allies around the world. Last year, we ratified a new free trade deal that now includes all of the Americas, the American Continental Free Trade Agreement. As a result, we further reduced our tariffs, we further reduced the price of American products, we reinforced our trade relations with Latin America, we allowed our country to counter-balance China's trade power. America has reinforced its status as the nation with the greatest trade power in the world.

[Applause]

And by promoting free trade with Latin America, we gave our businesses, including Hispanic small businesses in the United States thanks to language opportunities and their fluency in Spanish and English, new opportunities to innovate, to increase their competitiveness, to get new consumers by giving them access to American products, to create jobs in our country and ensure their business' expansion. Thanks to their bilingualism, they raised to a dominant position among the importers, exporters, translators and executives who ensure such a cultural and commercial exchange.

[Applause]

Together, Republicans and Democrats alike, put our differences aside and worked together in order to get things done. We successfully reformed our immigration system, which gave immigrants all across this country the chance to earn U.S. citizenship, to raise their families, to find good-paying jobs, to prosper and to live the American Dream. America has reinforced its status as the land of opportunity where everything is possible.

[Applause]

[UWS]

President Marco Rubio's Second State of the Union Address
Part 2

Last year, we made strong progress in the fight against terrorism. We further put terrorists on defense by reinforcing our military as well as our security measures, our homeland security and our alliances and by providing our allies all the necessary military, material, training and intelligence support they need, we eliminated ISIS and Al Qaeda in Egypt just like we eliminated Tahrir al-Sham in Syria.

[Applause]

We successfully orchestrated a major pivot of our foreign policy to the African continent, a strategic area where we not only developed our economic ties with our local allies and prioritized the fight against AIDS but also increased our efforts to fight radical Islamic terrorism there.

[Applause]

After Boko Haram's failed attempt to take control of Niger's uranium in order to build nuclear weapons or weapons of mass destruction that they would have used against us, we created the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office in order to counter attempts by terrorists or other threat actors to carry out an attack against the United States or its interests using a weapon of mass destruction by supporting operational partners in closing capability gaps along adversary pathways and by investing and developping innovative technologies to meet partner requirements and improve operations. As a result, we stopped nuclear terrorist attacks from being triggered, thus reinforcing international stability and security.

[Applause]

And for these two purposes and also for the sake of international peace, we increased economic and diplomatic sanctions against any nation, firm or individual doing business with rogue nations like North Korea and Iran or sponsoring global terrorism.

[Applause]

Thanks to Japan's decision to remilitarize itself in order to counter North Korean nuclear threat, we further increased the pressure on Pyonchang and we will get to a non-nuclear North Korea and to a stabilized and peaceful environment in the Pacific Ocean.

[Applause]

By standing with our allies in Eastern Europe and by reinforcing our missile defense program there, we made strong progress against Russia's agression. Our Ukrainian allies defeated the pro-Russian terrorist insurgency in eastern Ukraine and this nation has retreaved its territorial integrity as well as its sovereignty over Crimea, which restored peace, security, stability and freedom in Eastern Europe.

[Applause]

The last year has been a great one for democracy. In 2018, Syria has elected its first democratic government that is now increasingly taking responsibility of Syria's national security thanks to the support we are giving them with regards to Syria's reconstruction and to the fight against radical Islanic terrorism. Zimbabwe elected its first democratic government, the same for Venezuela whose people decided to turn the page from 20 years of dictatorship, corruption, terror, economic stagnation and inflation. And now in Cuba, the country my ancestors came from, the Cuban people is about to elect its first democratic government. We are about to normalize our relations with Cuba and our two nations will become great partners in the fight to promote democracy, human rights and economic freedom and to combat terrorism, crime and corruption.

[Applause]

Together, as Americans, we are determined to overcome our challenges, abroad and at home, and that requires putting our differences aside and putting partisanship aside in order to get things done. We are a people that has faith not only in freedom but also in gender equity, freedom of religion, the right to self defense and freedom of speech. But only together we can defend these precious values, get America to permanent prosperity and to peace through strength. So I call on the American people, Republicans, Democrats and Independents to work together in order to get things done for the good of the American people and for the sake of America's future. United we stand, divided we fall.

Thank you. God bless you all and God bless the United States of America.

[Applause]

[UWS]

Marco Rubio's Presidency
February 2019, Part 1

President Rubio's job approval rating :
Approve : 67 %
Disapprove : 29 %
Unsure : 4 %

February 1 :

-In the context of Cuba's democratization, the Democratic Solidarity Party is officially recognized a s a legal party after decades of prohibition by the communist regime. This centrist party is led by Antonio Torres Justo.

February 2 :

-The US-led coalition fighting ISIS killed approximately 150 ISIS fighters in an airstrike in the Middle Euphrates River Valley, an area where remnants of ISIS continue to operate.

February 3 :

-The Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office reported that due to Jordan's abundance in uranium, ISIS terrorists from Syria plan to take control of these sources of uranium in order to build nuclear weapons or weapons of mass destruction aimed at eventually attacking the United States and their allies. After the CWMDO informed the White House of the situation, President Rubio calls Jordanian Prime Minister Hani Al-Mulki on the phone and calls on him to reinforce security around Jordanian uranium mining plants, which is done later through the reinforcement of military troops to defend these plants against terrorists.

February 5 :

-DNC Deputy Chair Keith Ellison is elected as the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee after surpassing the 218 threshold on a third ballot with 56 % of the vote over Xavier Becerra's 44 %, thus succeeding Tom Perez at this post. As a result, a special election will be necessitated in Minnesota's 5th congressional district this year just like in Idaho's 1st congressional district due to Raul Labrador's nomination as U.S. Ambassador to Cuba.

February 6 :

-The US-led coalition fighting ISIS killed approximately 150 ISIS fighters in an airstrike in the Middle Euphrates River Valley, an area where remnants of ISIS continue to operate.

February 7 :
-Former militsiya officer Alexey Dymovsky is arrested by Moscow's police during protests in the Russian capital for speaking out against Vladimir Putin's corruption, authoritiarianism and alleged state-sponsored terrorism (especially due to Russia's exports of missiles to Iran, the largest state-sponsor of global terrorism). President Rubio condemns Dymovsky's and calls for the respect of human rights and of freedom of speech.

February 8 :

-President Rubio and his National Security Council hold a meeting at the Situation Room, at the White House, in order to discuss plans to combat radical Islamic terrorism in Western Africa and to lift the U.S. embargo against Cuba due to Cuba's democratization.

February 10 :

-Retired U.S. Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell who is none other than the author of Lone Survivor, announced his candidacy for U.S. Representative in Texas' 15th Congressional District in the U.S. House elections of 2020 against incumbent Vincente Gonzalez.

February 11 :

-Indiana Senator Mike Pence introduces the United States–Israel Strategic Partnership Act of 2019 that would amend the Department of Defense Appropriations Act to extend authority to transfer certain obsolete or surplus Department of Defense (DOD) items to Israel; direct the President to take steps to make Israel eligible for the strategic trade authorization exception to the requirement for a license for the export, reexport, or in-country transfer of an item subject to certain export controls; authorize the President to carry out U.S.-Israel cooperative activities and to provide assistance for cooperation in the fields of security, counter-terrorism, energy, water, agriculture, and alternative fuel technologies and direct the President to carry out U.S.-Israel cooperative activities and to provide assistance for cooperation in the fields of energy, water, agriculture, and alternative fuel technologies. The Senate vote on this bill will be held on February 18 while the House of Representatives (should it pass the Senate) will do the same on February 25.

February 13 :

-The HACP started its military offensive against Al-Shabaab and ISIS in Somalia. Thanks to the provision of U.S. military arsenal to them, Ethiopian-Somali armed forces defeated Al-Shabaab in the Somalian city of Qansadhere as well as in the neighboring villages, killing 506 jihadists.

February 14 :
-President Rubio, his family and his Cabinet celebrate Valentine's Day.

February 15 :
-Ethiopian-Somali armed forces recaptured all of Al-Shabaab's positions located between the Somali capital of Mogadishu and the city of Merca, losing 62 soldiers while killing approximately 700 terrorists during the offensive.

[UWS]

Marco Rubio's Presidency
February 2019, Part 2

February 16 :
-According to a new report by the Department of State, Syria's reconstruction efforts have proven to be successful throughout the previous year since 65 000 new Syrian troops were trained since 2017 and since several groceries, houses, hospitals, police stations, etc. were built thanks to Western powers' contributions, thus improving the Syrian people's living conditions.

February 17 :

-Cuban activist Valdimiro Roca officially founds the Social Democratic Party of Cuba (left) in the context of Cuba's transition to democracy.

February 18 :
-The U.S. Senate votes 84-16 for the United States–Israel Strategic Partnership Act of 2019 that has yet to pass the House of Representatives.

February 19 :

-President Rubio declares during a press conference in the Pentagon that developing the building of the Air Force LRS-B and of the Columbia-class submarine as well as the modernization of the U.S. nuclear arsenal will be one of his Administration's priorities in terms of national security and counter-terrorism. He calls on the Congress to adopt a plan to appropriate $2.5 billion for the investment into these military programs in order to keep the U.S. military strong and to fight terrorism and to maintain global peace and stability against rogue nations like North Korea and Iran.

February 20 :

-Carlos Eire announces the creation of the Cuban Liberal Union (right).

February 21 :

-In response to Ethiopia's military involvement in Somalia, Al-Shabaab orchestrated a suicidal terrorist attack in Addis Ababa, killing 19 people and wounding 30. President Rubio declared the United States' solidarity to Ethiopia in support to the victims' families while condemning the evil of radical Islamic terrorism.

February 22 :

-At the Indian-American Chamber of Commerce in Orlando, Florida, President Rubio speaks in favor of the possible ratification of a free trade agreement between the United States and India, arguing that Florida's $1 billion annual exports to India demonstrate a great example of the importance to develop trade ties with India’s and Asia's large and growing markets.

Febuary 23 :

-The United States conducted airstrikes against Al-Shabaab in their controlled-cities of Saakow, Bu'ale and Jilib, killing 403 jihadists, weakening the terrorists' defenses in these cities and clearing the way to an Ethiopian-Somali military offensive in this region.

Febuary 24 :
-The House of Representatives votes 288-140 for the United States–Israel Strategic Partnership Act of 2019 that is later signed into law by President Rubio, thus amending the Department of Defense Appropriations Act to extend authority to transfer certain obsolete or surplus Department of Defense (DOD) items to Israel; directing the President to take steps to make Israel eligible for the strategic trade authorization exception to the requirement for a license for the export, reexport, or in-country transfer of an item subject to certain export controls; authorizing the President to carry out U.S.-Israel cooperative activities and to provide assistance for cooperation in the fields of security, counter-terrorism, energy, water, agriculture, and alternative fuel technologies and directing the President to carry out U.S.-Israel cooperative activities and to provide assistance for cooperation in the fields of energy, water, agriculture, and alternative fuel technologies.

Febuary 25 :

-During a visit at the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praises the Rubio Administration's adoption of the United States–Israel Strategic Partnership Act of 2019.

Febuary 26 :

-During a rally in Denver, former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper announces his candidacy for the presidency of the United States, becoming the first Democrat to throw his hat in the ring in the context of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.

Febuary 27 :

-During a foreign trip in Nigeria, Vice-President Haley visits Abuja where she informs Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari of the United States' strategy to combat radical Islamic terrorism in West Africa, including Boko Haram.

Febuary 25-28 :

-The HACP's armed forces conducted a successful military offensive against Al-Shabaab, defeating the jihadists in the cities of Saakow, Bu'ale and Jilib. The HACP lost 100 soldiers while killing 2000 Al-Shabaab terrorists during the offensive.

[UWS]

Marco Rubio's Presidency
March 2019, Part 1
President Rubio's job approval rating :
Approve : 65 %
Disapprove : 30 %
Unsure : 5 %

March 1 :

-A new jobs report noted that 200 000 new jobs were created in the United States, partly thanks to President Rubio’s success in his economic mission in Davos during which he convinced investors to invest in America due to this country’s status as the best business-friendly environment in the world.

March 7 :

-Ohio Senator John Kasich introduces the Secure Act of 2019 that would provide a total of $200 billion for the modernization of America’s nuclear arsenal, for the development of the U.S. Navy’s Columbia-class submarine program as well as the U.S. Air Force’s Long Range Strike Bomber program. The senate will vote on this bill on March 14 while the House of Representatives, should the bill pass the Senate, will do the same on March 21.

March 8 :
-Republican senator Susan Collins and Democratic senator Dick Durbin introduced a bipartisan bill called the 21st Century Energy Act that would include the investment of a part of the revenues from oil drilling into the development of renewable energies. The senate vote will be set on March 15 and the House vote on March 22.

March 10 :

-President Rubio holds a rally in Bedford, New Hampshire where he calls for renewable energy promotion as well as America's energy dominance and independence.


-The U.S. Navy bombarded Al-Shabaab's positions in the Somali city of Mareeg, thus destroying the terrorists' defenses in this city and killing 500 jihadists, which cleared the way to a military offensive by the HACP.

March 11-14 :

-The Ethiopian, Kenyan and Somali armed forces launched a military offensive against Al-Shabaab in Mareeg and in the neighboring cities and villages on the land and from the ea as well. Thanks to their military arsenal and to the military and material support they earned from the United States, the allies overpowered Al-Shabaab in all the four corners of the city. In ddition of defeating the terrorist organization in the Galhareri District, they managed to do the  the same in Mareeg where they lost 453 soldiers and killed 4800 jihadists, including Al-Shabaab leader Ahmad Umar.
-President Rubio praised and honored the bravery of the soldiers who led the operation that killed Ahmad Umar and described as a major victory against radical Islamic terrorism.

March 13 :

-During a rally in Boston, Massachusetts, Senator Elizabeth Warren announces her candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, pledging to « take on Wall Street and to make sure rich people will pay their fair share. » But her challenge in the 2020 campaign might be to run on Bernie Sanders' left especially if the Vermont Senator and runner-up in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries decides to run again in 2020.

March 14 :

-The Senate votes 81-17 for the Secure Act of 2019 that has yet to pass the House of Representatives.

March 15 :
-The Senate approves the 21st Energy Act with 90 YEA votes over 7 NAY votes.

[2016]

Hickenlooper ain't going to win the Presidential Primaries against some liberal Socialist like Sanders or a liberal Tax & Spent Hawk like Warren. He is too conservative especially for Democratic Primary Voters in the Northeast.

[UWS]

I hate to be nitpicky, as this is an amazing timeline, but I am very confused on the economic data. These are the following months that you have provided job creation numbers for:

The average for all of these months is 254,060, so if we fill in the gaps for which data is not provided we get this:

When we use those values to measure cumulative job growth, the total comes to 6,605,560 (which is very good, don't get me wrong), not 9 million:

Also, just for realism, the US economy in OTL requires 145,000 jobs created per month to keep unemployment from increasing, as the size of the labour force increases by that amount every month. Considering that working-age population growth and labour force participation is rising due to Rubio's policies, this number would be even higher. If I were you, I would probably retcon so that the average job creation is ~350k-400k per month (and perhaps stick a September 1983 in there for the hell of it to show how much the recovery is accelerating)

In my opinion, the 9 million includes the jobs created in the months I did not indicate the number.

And how did you create your graphics?

And thank you for your appreciation.

[UWS]

Marco Rubio's Presidency
March 2019, Part 2

March 16 :

-The Ethiopian, Somali and Kenyan troops defeated the last remaining pockets of Al-Shabaab jihadists in located at the east of Qardho and in the south of Bargal. As a result, Al-Shabaab is totally eliminated.


-President Rubio congratulates the U.S. troops as well as the allied troops for their bravery, their genius and collaboration that contributed to Al-Shabaab's annihilation and will finally bring peace, security and stability in Somalia after over 25 years of conflict, instability and corruption.

March 31 :

-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is re-elected for a second term with 40 % of the vote over Yulia Tymoshenko's 31 %, Yuriy Boyko's 13 %, Anatolyi Hrytsenko's 8 % and Vadim Rabinovich's 6 %. His victory is mostly due to the improvement of the national security situation, NATO's victory against Russia in Ukraine and to Ukraine's rapid transition to energy independence.

-President Rubio speaks with Poroshenko on the phone and congratulates him for his re-election as Poroshenko wishes the U.S. President good luck for his 2020 re-election campaign. The two leaders re-committed their determination to fight for national security, for democracy, freedom and human rights.

[UWS]

Marco Rubio's Presidency
April 2019

President Rubio's job approval rating :
Approve : 66 %
Disapprove : 30 %
Unsure : 4 %

April 2 :

-Indonesian President Joko Widodo expresses Indonesia's interest to join the TPP, which is an interest the Rubio Administration has welcomed with opened arms.

April 4 :
-President Rubio calls for the abolition of net neutrality during a speech in Grand Rapids, Michigan, declaring « it is a big government rule that imposes burdensome job-killing regulations and tight control that only favors crony capitalism and allows the government to hinder accessibility and the diversity of content. The better way to ensure net neutrality is to breathe more capitalism into the ISP market rather than government control. Consumers should be driving the market, and we can help by encouraging innovation, incentivizing investment, and promoting the competitive environment this industry needs. »

April 5 :

-Michigan Senator John James introduces a bill aimed at authorizing Sweden's ascension as a NATO member. The Senate will vote on it on April 12 and the House of Representatives on April 19.

April 6 :
-President Rubio hosts Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen at the White House where they discussed issues such as relations between the United States and Taiwan, economic and trade ties, energy, defense ties, democracy, human rights, China and North Korea.


April 7 :

-President Rubio, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron and Rwandan President Paul Kagame along with retired Canadian General Romeo Dallaire met each other in New York City in the context of the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, condemning this tragedy and calling for the persistence of the fight against any form of genocide, intolerance and hate speech against any racial, ethnic, cultural or religious group in the world.

April 8 :
-Over 418 000 new jobs were created in the United States in March according to a new jobs report. The unemployment is reduced to 3.3 %.

April 9 :

-San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer announces his candidacy in California's 51st congressional district for the 2020 House elections.

April 10 :
-Senator Kelly Ayotte introduced a bill aimed at authorizing an extension of the Northern Pass Transmission Line in New Hampshire.

April 11 :
-The HACP started a military offensive called Operation Lion against ISIS in the Somali region of Puntland.

April 12 :
-The Senate votes 99-1 for allowing Sweden to integrate NATO. Rand Paul is the only senator to vote against it.

April 13 :

-The HACP troops officially eradicated ISIS in Somalia after Operation Lion during which they killed 290 jihadists, including Abdul Qadir Mumin (ISIS leader in Somalia) and capturing 60.

April 17 :
-In the context of Sweden's potential entry into NATO, President Rubio hosts Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven at the White House where they discussed issues such as economic and trade ties, energy, democracy, Russia and counter-terrorism.

April 19 :

-The House of Representatives votes 392-42 in favor of Sweden's NATO membership. The bill is later signed into law by President Rubio, thus authorizing Sweden's ascension as NATO member.

April 20 :
-Stefan Lofven praised the U.S. Congress' decision to approve Swedish NATO membership.

April 21 :
-The Senate votes 78-17 for Senator Ayotte's bill to authorize the expansion to Northern Pass.

April 22 :
-President Rubio hosts Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades at the White House where they discussed issues such as relations between the 2 nations, economic and trade ties and counter-terrorism.

April 23 :

-President Rubio and his family hold a rally at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Florida where he announces that he's running for re-election for a second term as President of the United States in 2020, pledging to continue the strong progress America has made in the last 3 years such as strong economic prosperity thanks to the promotion of free market as well as strong national security thanks to a stronger military, stronger alliances and strong intelligence programs that contributed to a decline of the terrorist threat and saved innocent lives around the world. President Rubio's re-election campaign slogan is « Keep America Strong ».

President Marco Rubio's Re-election Campaign Announcement Speech

Thank you. Thank you so very much my friends.

Three years ago, we ended a a era in which America was suffering the slowest economy in our nation's history, government was at its biggest size, our country was dependent on foreign energies and was a hard place to do business. This was also an era in which global terrorism increased all around the world, in which we suffered multiplied terrorist attacks, in which we were close from witnessing a nuclear war (especially with North Korea), in which our constitutional rights were endangered and in which Obamacare diminished our people's access to healthcare through higher taxes and regulations.

Well, things have changed. We are now living a time of prosperity. In the last three years, we cut taxes for all the American people, including the middle class, which increased their purchasing power, we abolished the IRS and replaced it by a 15 % flat tax, we ended the War on Coal (which boosted our coal industry) and we reduced taxes on America's energy industry in addition of doubling the number of permits and liscenses on federal lands in addition of approving the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, of the Dakota Access pipeline and of the TransAmerica pipeline, which rapidly brought us to energy independence, brought massive job creation in this country and helped us to develop renewable energies through the use of a part of revenues from oil drilling, thus pursuing further job creation and improve our ecological footprint. It also helped us to boost our automobile industry thanks to lower costs for our American cars and energy independence. As a result, America is number one in auto production again. Thanks to the pursue of our quest for open markets, to the reduction of our corporate tax rate from 40 % to 20 % and to tax cuts for our manufacturing industry, we made our trade deals much better and fairer for American workers across the nation, we brought our lost jobs back home and we encouraged job creation here in the United States. It also reinforced America's competitiveness in the world economy thanks to new trade deals such as the TPP, the TTIP and the American Continent Free Trade Agreement. Through the promotion of school choice, we helped parents to guide their children out of poorly-performing schools assigned by zip code and grant them better education elsewhere, thus expanding opportunities for low-income students to attend high-quality schools that would otherwise be accessible only to high-income families, thus giving them a fair chance of succeeding and entering the workforce. Thanks to a reduction of taxes and regulations on businesses, to a reduction of the cost of doing business here in this country and of our corporate tax rate, we made America the best place to do business, which encouraged business owners to chose America as the place to open their business, thus encouraging strong job creation. Small businesses are the very lifeblood of our economy since most of the jobs are created in small businesses. And by promoting public/private partnerships in order to fund new infrastructure programs, we are drastically developing our infrastructures all across the country, thus facilitating economic activities and convincing new business owners to chose America as the place to start and grow their business, which encouraged further job creation here in America. As a result, we created over 8 million new jobs in the last three years and we brought the unemployment rate from 5.6 % to 3.3 %, which is the lowest rate in 50 years.

[Crowd cheers and applauds]

So we demonstrated that government is the problem and that free enterprise is the clear solution. With the adoption of Rubiocare, we created an advanceable and refundable tax credit that all Americans can use to purchase health insurance, thus increase credits annually and set the tax preference for employer-sponsored insurance on a glide path to ensure that equals the level of the credits within a decade. It allowed us to reforminsurance regulations to lower costs, encouraging innovation, and protecting the vulnerable to make sure those with pre-existing conditions will have access to affordable care through mechanisms such as federally-supported, actuarially-sound and state-based high risk pools, that Americans will be able to purchase coverage across state lines so they can seek out affordable coverage regardless of where they live and that consumer-centered products like Health Savings Accounts will be encouraged and expanded. As a result, we prevented taxpayers from being asked to bail out any insurance company that loses money. It also helped us to preserve and reinforce Medicare and Medicaid by placing them on fiscally-sustainable paths, moving Medicaid into a per-capita block grant system and preserving funding for its recipients while freeing states from Washington mandates. By reinforcing our borders, we not only reinforced our national security but also made immigration reform possible and together, Republicans and Democrats, we finally succeeded to reform our immigration system by granting American citizenship for immigrants across this great and wonderful nation, which made it possible for them to find good-paying jobs and to accomplish the American Dream here on the land of opportunity. We succeeded in finding common grounds on the gun rights issue by allowing the Attorney General to block the transfer of firearms to suspected terrorists and criminals, which reinforced security and helped us to fight crime while defending the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and the right to self-defense. America is freer than ever before.

[Crowd cheers and applauds]

In the last three years, we made America safer than it ever was. We demonstrated that the world is better, safer and freer when America is the strongest military power in the world. By increasing our defense budget, we rebuilt our national defense, we reinforced our military, our troops' readiness and our alliances, we armed the right groups in the Middle East through background checks on them and we made strong progress against radical Islamic terrorism by going after terrorists and striking wherever they are, including in Syria and Iraq and thanks to our military strength we freed all of ISIS' territory and several ISIS leaders, including Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, are killed, thus reinforcing our national security and bringing strong defense to our values sich as democracy, freedom, gender equity and freedom of religion. We restored democracy and freedom in Syria through our efforts to reconstruct this country and to train their new armed forces, we are finally bringing permanent stability, peace, freedom, prosperity, integrity and justice in the region. By combining our forces with India's and Pakistan's, we eradicated ISIS and Al Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Thanks to our military and intelligence efforts to combat terrorism, we eliminated ISIS in North Africa, in Egypt, in Yemen and we recently defeated Al-Shabaab. But this fight is not over and that's why we must keep fighting radical Islamic terrorism until this evil is totally defeated. We stopped Iran from getting the necessary capitals for the development of a nuclear weapon and reduced their ability to sponsor terrorist groups by abolishing the Iran nuclear deal and reinforcing sanctions against this nation that is none other than the world's largest state-sponsor of terrorism. By standing with our allies in Eastern Europe and by providing them all the necessary military, material and intelligence support, we strengthened Eastern Europe's stability and territorial integrity against Vladimir Putin's agression, including in Ukraine that has restored its sovereignty on Crimea thanks to the courage and genius of Ukrainian troops and our military advisers. We successfully faced the North Korean nuclear threat by imposing sanctions on international firms that were used as financial intermediaries to Kim Jong-un's regime as well as sanctions on North Korea's crude oil supply and by reinforcing our military presence on the Pacific. This threat must not only be contained. It must be defeated and that's why we need to increase all the necessary diplomatic, economic and political pressure on North Korea to accomplish that goal for the sake of international security, stability, freedom and peace. And in the last three years, democracy has made strong progress thanks to the restoration of American leadership. We saw it in Syria, Venezuela and Cuba. All of thse positive results explain why we need to keep American leadership strong and that's what we did, which will finally lead us to victory against terrorism and tyranny. America is back!

[Crowd cheers, applauds and chants USA! USA! USA!]

Throughout the last three years, America has finally reclaimed its status as the shining city on a hill and as the land of opportunity where everything is possible, including the American Dream. As my father used to tell me, « En este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosotros no pudimos. » In this country, you will achieve all the things we never could.

[Crowd cheers and applauds]

Right now, thanks to all the leadership and the progress made in the last three years, it is now possible for our fellow Americans to accomplish everything the previous generations could not have done. Our children, including my four children, are becoming the most prosperous generation of Americans that ever lived. And in order to make sure this keeps going on, I am proud to announce my candidacy for re-election to a second term as President of the United States of America in order to Keep America Strong.

Thank you. Gracias. God bless you all and God bless the United States of America.

[Crowd loudly cheers, applauds and chants USA! USA! USA!]

April 24 :

-Vice-President Haley officially announces she will be President Rubio's running mate again in 2020.

April 25 :
-The House votes 311-24 for the extension of the Northern Pass in New England, which is later signed into law by President Rubio.

April 26 :
-President Rubio campaigns in Des Moines, Iowa where he underlines his fulfilled promise to relaunch America's agricultural industry thanks to his Administration's tax cuts for tractor, seed and agricultural businesses, which reduced the American people's dependence on food stamps and improved their access to food.

April 27 :

-Karl Rove, George W. Bush's former campaign strategist, predicts that President Rubio will be re-elected in 2020, citing a strong economy and a stronger national security due to the Rubio Administration's counter-terrorism efforts.

April 28 :

-The United States imposed sanctions against three people and three firms for supporting ISIS. These individuals and firms include Abdulpatta Escalon Abubakar who provided financial and material support for Islamic State and its network in the Philippines, Yunus Emre Sakarya and his Turkey-based firm Profesyoneller Elektronik for procuring parts for unmanned aircraft for ISIS as well as Mohamed Mire Ali Yusuf and his firms Liibaan Trading and Al Mutafaq Commercial Company for activities supporting ISIS in Western Africa.

April 29 :

-President Rubio campaigns in Green Bay, Wisconsin where he cites his success in growing America's manufacturing industry while promoting free trade thanks to tax cuts for manufacturing businesses and also thanks to the reduction of America's corporate tax rate from 40 % to 20 %. At the same occasion, he slams his Democratic potential opponents for promoting the same big government agenda that brought the slowest economic progress in America's history under the previous administration due to higher taxes on consumers and businesses and due to regulations that brought deeper dependence to foreign energy.

[UWS]

President Marco Rubio's Re-election Campaign Announcement Speech

Date : April 23 2019

Location : University of Tampa in Tampa, Florida




Thank you. Thank you so very much my friends.

Three years ago, we ended a a era in which America was suffering the slowest economy in our nation's history, government was at its biggest size, our country was dependent on foreign energies and was a hard place to do business. This was also an era in which global terrorism increased all around the world, in which we suffered multiplied terrorist attacks, in which we were close from witnessing a nuclear war (especially with North Korea), in which our constitutional rights were endangered and in which Obamacare diminished our people's access to healthcare through higher taxes and regulations.

Well, things have changed. We are now living a time of prosperity. In the last three years, we cut taxes for all the American people, including the middle class, which increased their purchasing power, we abolished the IRS and replaced it by a 15 % flat tax, we ended the War on Coal (which boosted our coal industry) and we reduced taxes on America's energy industry in addition of doubling the number of permits and liscenses on federal lands in addition of approving the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, of the Dakota Access pipeline and of the TransAmerica pipeline, which rapidly brought us to energy independence, brought massive job creation in this country and helped us to develop renewable energies through the use of a part of revenues from oil drilling, thus pursuing further job creation and improve our ecological footprint. It also helped us to boost our automobile industry thanks to lower costs for our American cars and energy independence. As a result, America is number one in auto production again. Thanks to the pursue of our quest for open markets, to the reduction of our corporate tax rate from 40 % to 20 % and to tax cuts for our manufacturing industry, we made our trade deals much better and fairer for American workers across the nation, we brought our lost jobs back home and we encouraged job creation here in the United States. It also reinforced America's competitiveness in the world economy thanks to new trade deals such as the TPP, the TTIP and the American Continent Free Trade Agreement. Through the promotion of school choice, we helped parents to guide their children out of poorly-performing schools assigned by zip code and grant them better education elsewhere, thus expanding opportunities for low-income students to attend high-quality schools that would otherwise be accessible only to high-income families, thus giving them a fair chance of succeeding and entering the workforce. Thanks to a reduction of taxes and regulations on businesses, to a reduction of the cost of doing business here in this country and of our corporate tax rate, we made America the best place to do business, which encouraged business owners to chose America as the place to open their business, thus encouraging strong job creation. Small businesses are the very lifeblood of our economy since most of the jobs are created in small businesses. And by promoting public/private partnerships in order to fund new infrastructure programs, we are drastically developing our infrastructures all across the country, thus facilitating economic activities and convincing new business owners to chose America as the place to start and grow their business, which encouraged further job creation here in America. As a result, we created over 8 million new jobs in the last three years and we brought the unemployment rate from 5.6 % to 3.3 %, which is the lowest rate in 50 years.

[Crowd cheers and applauds]

So we demonstrated that government is the problem and that free enterprise is the clear solution. With the adoption of Rubiocare, we created an advanceable and refundable tax credit that all Americans can use to purchase health insurance, thus increase credits annually and set the tax preference for employer-sponsored insurance on a glide path to ensure that equals the level of the credits within a decade. It allowed us to reforminsurance regulations to lower costs, encouraging innovation, and protecting the vulnerable to make sure those with pre-existing conditions will have access to affordable care through mechanisms such as federally-supported, actuarially-sound and state-based high risk pools, that Americans will be able to purchase coverage across state lines so they can seek out affordable coverage regardless of where they live and that consumer-centered products like Health Savings Accounts will be encouraged and expanded. As a result, we prevented taxpayers from being asked to bail out any insurance company that loses money. It also helped us to preserve and reinforce Medicare and Medicaid by placing them on fiscally-sustainable paths, moving Medicaid into a per-capita block grant system and preserving funding for its recipients while freeing states from Washington mandates. By reinforcing our borders, we not only reinforced our national security but also made immigration reform possible and together, Republicans and Democrats, we finally succeeded to reform our immigration system by granting American citizenship for immigrants across this great and wonderful nation, which made it possible for them to find good-paying jobs and to accomplish the American Dream here on the land of opportunity. We succeeded in finding common grounds on the gun rights issue by allowing the Attorney General to block the transfer of firearms to suspected terrorists and criminals, which reinforced security and helped us to fight crime while defending the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and the right to self-defense. America is freer than ever before.

[Crowd cheers and applauds]

In the last three years, we made America safer than it ever was. We demonstrated that the world is better, safer and freer when America is the strongest military power in the world. By increasing our defense budget, we rebuilt our national defense, we reinforced our military, our troops' readiness and our alliances, we armed the right groups in the Middle East through background checks on them and we made strong progress against radical Islamic terrorism by going after terrorists and striking wherever they are, including in Syria and Iraq and thanks to our military strength we freed all of ISIS' territory and several ISIS leaders, including Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, are killed, thus reinforcing our national security and bringing strong defense to our values sich as democracy, freedom, gender equity and freedom of religion. We restored democracy and freedom in Syria through our efforts to reconstruct this country and to train their new armed forces, we are finally bringing permanent stability, peace, freedom, prosperity, integrity and justice in the region. By combining our forces with India's and Pakistan's, we eradicated ISIS and Al Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Thanks to our military and intelligence efforts to combat terrorism, we eliminated ISIS in North Africa, in Egypt, in Yemen and we recently defeated Al-Shabaab. But this fight is not over and that's why we must keep fighting radical Islamic terrorism until this evil is totally defeated. We stopped Iran from getting the necessary capitals for the development of a nuclear weapon and reduced their ability to sponsor terrorist groups by abolishing the Iran nuclear deal and reinforcing sanctions against this nation that is none other than the world's largest state-sponsor of terrorism. By standing with our allies in Eastern Europe and by providing them all the necessary military, material and intelligence support, we strengthened Eastern Europe's stability and territorial integrity against Vladimir Putin's agression, including in Ukraine that has restored its sovereignty on Crimea thanks to the courage and genius of Ukrainian troops and our military advisers. We successfully faced the North Korean nuclear threat by imposing sanctions on international firms that were used as financial intermediaries to Kim Jong-un's regime as well as sanctions on North Korea's crude oil supply and by reinforcing our military presence on the Pacific. This threat must not only be contained. It must be defeated and that's why we need to increase all the necessary diplomatic, economic and political pressure on North Korea to accomplish that goal for the sake of international security, stability, freedom and peace. And in the last three years, democracy has made strong progress thanks to the restoration of American leadership. We saw it in Syria, Venezuela and Cuba. All of thse positive results explain why we need to keep American leadership strong and that's what we did, which will finally lead us to victory against terrorism and tyranny. America is back!

[Crowd cheers, applauds and chants USA! USA! USA!]

Throughout the last three years, America has finally reclaimed its status as the shining city on a hill and as the land of opportunity where everything is possible, including the American Dream. As my father used to tell me, « En este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosotros no pudimos. » In this country, you will achieve all the things we never could.

[Crowd cheers and applauds]

Right now, thanks to all the leadership and the progress made in the last three years, it is now possible for our fellow Americans to accomplish everything the previous generations could not have done. Our children, including my four children, are becoming the most prosperous generation of Americans that ever lived. And in order to make sure this keeps going on, I am proud to announce my candidacy for re-election to a second term as President of the United States of America in order to Keep America Strong.

Thank you. Gracias. God bless you all and God bless the United States of America.

[Crowd loudly cheers, applauds and chants USA! USA! USA!]

[UWS]

Marco Rubio's Presidency
May 2019, Part 1

President Rubio's job approval rating :
Approve : 67 %
Disapprove : 30 %
Unsure : 3 %

May 1 :

-After President Rubio announced his candidacy for a second term as President of the United States, a new CNN/ORC poll showed that the incumbent President is leading any generic Democratic opponent with 59 % of the vote. In a match-up against Bernie Sanders, he would win with 57 % of the vote over the Vermont Senator's 38 %. With Cory Booker as the Democratic nominee, President Rubio would be beating him with 59 % of the vote against 40 % for the New Jersey Senator while he would defeat Tim Kaine 58 %-41 %. According to this poll, Elizabeth Warren would be the Democratic hopeful making the worst performance against Rubio with 36 % of the vote while the President would get 62 % of the vote.

May 3 :

-Following a recent report according to which the last remaining pockets of Afghan Taliban would be attempting to attack and take control of uranium reserves in Uzbekistan due to this country's abundance in uranium, President Rubio speaks with Uzbekistani President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, calling on him to reinforce the Uzbekistani Army's presence around these reserves in order to reinforce security there and defend them against a possible attack by the Taliban who could take these uranium reserves to build nuclear weapons or WMDs in an attempt to launch nuclear terrorist attacks against the United States and their allies. Mirziyoyev followed this advice and orders a reinforcement of military presence around Uzbekistan's uranium reserves.

May 4 :
-In the context of Cuba's democratization, Secretary of State Lindsey Graham starts a foreign trip in Latin America as the Organization of the American States will hold it's 48th summit in Rio de Janeiro from May 16-20 about Cuba's future. He first landed in Mexico City, Mexico where he meets Mexican President Ricardo Anaya Cortés. The Secretary of State declared that Cuba's democratization is a key to permanent freedom and prosperity in the entire American continent and to a further reinforcement of free trade relations between all the American states for the sake of prosperity for all American nations.

May 5 :

-As Cuba is about to hold its first democratic election next month, Republican Florida Senator Rick Scott and Democratic New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez introduce the American Peace and Prosperity Act that would end the American embargo against Cuba; remove sanctions against Cuba and Venezuela; remove these two countries from the list of state-sponsors of terrorism; reinforce security, military and inteligence partnerships to combat crime and global terrorism; reinforce trade relations between the United States, Cuba and Venezuela and authorize Cuba and Venezuela to integrate the American Continent Free Trade Agreeement (ACFTA). The Senate will vote on that bill on May 12 while the House of Representatives will do the same on May 15.

-President Rubio hosts Venezuelan President Leopoldo López at the White House where they discussed issues such as relations between the United States and Venezuela, economic ties, free trade, energy, human rights, democracy, Cuba and counter-terrorism.


-Secretary Graham makes a stopover in Bogota, Colombia where he declares that the end of tyranny and oppression in Cuba and Venezuela is a victory for international security since it deprived terrorist organizations like Hezbollah of arms provision from through state-sponsored terrorism orchestrated by the Maduro regime and since it deprived North Korea of allies like the Castro regime that helped Pyongyang to evade U.N. sanctions aimed at stopping North Korea from reinforcing its nuclear arsenal.

May 6 :
-After the Taliban's threat to target Uzbekistan's uranium reserves to get WMDs, the U.S., Indian, Afghan, Uzbekistani and Turkish air forces launched airstrikes against a Taliban base near the Afghanistan-Uzbekistan border, killing 70 jihadists.

-Secretary of State Graham visits Brazil where he calls for the end of the embargo against Cuba, for a reinforcement of trade relations with Cuba and Venezuela and for stronger security collaboration between all American states, including Havana and Caracas.

May 7 :

-President Rubio campaigns in Norfolk, Virginia where he highlights his foreign policy accomplishments as President of the United States, including his Administration's successful efforts to fight radical Islamic terrorism, efforts that decimated ISIS in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, North Africa, Egypt and Somalia, eradicated Al Qaida in Afghanistan and Somalia and organized the successful military operation that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2017. Here are some excerpts of his speech :

All of these foreign policy successes were possible because of our efforts to reinforce our military and our security measures with a stronger defense budget, with a modernization of the U.S. military arsenal and with our efforts to strengthen our alliances and to arm the right groups through background checks. That is something the Democratic presidential candidates don't understand as they seek to cut our defense budget and our security measures and to reduce our military at its smallest size since World War I. Their program will bring us backwards and allow terrorists to reinforce rise again and to orchestrate terrorist attacks against us and our allies. We need to defend our freedom, our values and our security and that's what we are doing since 3 years.

Our victory against radical Islamic terrorism is imminent. Together, we're going to keep working with our allies and we're going to defeat global terrorism. Victory against terrorism is required for restoring peace, stability and freedom. As long as I'm President of the United States, we will have the upper hand against terrorists, Iran will never get a nuclear weapon. Instead, they will use their nuclear energy to grow their economy, not to develop ballistic missiles. That's how we're going to accomplish our path to peace through strength.

Thank you. God bless you and God bless America.

May 8 :

-President Rubio campaigns in Akron, Ohio where he underlines the strong economic growth brought by his Administration's tax cuts for all Americans, including the middle class, the doubling of the child tax credit, the promotion of oil drilling and production, the reinforcement free trade and the restoration of America's status as the best place in the world to do business through tax cuts for businesses, a reduction of America's corporate tax rate in half, which resulted to a 3.3 % unemployment rate and created eight and a half million new jobs. He pledged to pursue the leadership of the last three years in order to accomplish permanent prosperity for America.

May 9 :
-Thanks, notably, to the acceleration of the GDP and to the Rubio Administration's recent renewable energy policy that includes the use of a part of the revenues from oil drilling to invest into renewable energies, 350 000 new jobs were created in April. The unemployment rate decreased to 3.2 %.

-During a campaign rally in Detroit, Michigan, President Rubio praises the effects of his infrastructure policy that encouraged public/private partnerships to fund and develop infrastructure programs that will increase economic activities in America and encourage future business owners that America is the best place to start and expand their business, thus encouraging job creation.

May 11 :

-In the Arabian Sea, the U.S. Navy intercepted two Russian cargos carrying 250 tons of uranium to Iran apparently in an effort to provide Iran the necessary uranium to develop nuclear weapons. In fact this uranium shipment is sufficient for 15 nuclear bombs.


-In reaction to Russia's failed attempt to provide uranium to Iran, President Rubio accused Vladimir Putin of state-sponsored terrorism by increasing its uranium exports to Iran, the biggest state-sponsor of global terrorism. He calls on the Congress to adopt sanctions on Russian uranium exports to Iran in order to stop Tehran from getting the tools they need for Iran's nuclear arsenal.

May 12 :
-The Senate votes unanimously for the American Peace and Prosperity Act with all the 100 senators supporting this bill that has yet to pass the House of Representatives.

May 13 :

-Montana Governor Steve Bullock announced his presidential candidacy for the 2020 presidential election. He starts his campaign at the bottom of the Democratic primary polls with 3 % of the voting intentions among Democratic primary voters.

May 14 :
-Missouri Senator Ann Wagner introduced a bill to establish sanctions on Russia's uranium exports to Iran in order to stop them from getting a nuclear bomb. The Senate vote will be held on May 21 and the the House vote on May 28.

May 15 :

-The House of Representatives unanimously supports the American Peace and Prosperity Act that is later signed into law by President Rubio, thus ending the American embargo against Cuba; removing sanctions against Cuba and Venezuela; removing these countries from the list of state-sponsors of terrorism; reinforcing security, military and inteligence partnerships to combat crime and global terrorism; strengthening trade relations between the United States, Cuba and Venezuela and authorizing these two nations to integrate the ACFTA.

[UWS]

I went back and modified the jobs numbers to be around the 9 million figure by April 2019. Considering that tax reform passes in November 2017 and immigration reform passes in May 2018, the bulk of the growth in jobs acceleration will be in 2018 and 2019, with 2017 largely following OTL (with minor boosts due to regulatory reform):

The passage of Rubiocare would decrease healthcare economic rents and administrative costs, leading to lower job growth in the couple months following, however. Also, not much can be done about September 2017, when Hurricanes Irma and Maria wreaked havoc. In any case, these higher job creation levels would give us a jobs total of 8,675,660 by April 2019:

Considering that regulatory and tax reform would boost productivity growth (OTL 2017 productivity growth was 1.1%), we get the following growth rates in multi-factor productivity and non-farm payrolls (jobs):

This would give us output growth of 3.0% in 2017 and 4.7% in 2019, a figure that closely tracks GDP growth. A small boost in hours worked per capita (as more move towards full-time employment) would likely slightly increase 2017 GDP, while surging personal incomes due to Rubio's policies would boost imports, slightly decreasing 2018 GDP, giving GDP growth rates of 3.1% in 2018 and 4.5% in 2018, the strongest growth figures in 2 decades:

These are obviously all made up numbers, but it is always interesting to consider what could have been and what such strong jobs numbers would look like.

With the labour market as tight as it is in this scenario, however, inflation fears are going to be something to consider.

Thanks. Just wondering where did you create those awesome graphics?

[UWS]

Marco Rubio's Presidency
May 2019, Part 2

May 16 :
-In reaction to Washington's decision to end the embargo against Cuba, the three main candidates for the presidency of Cuba praised this move, declaring that Cuba is finally going on the right track to prosperity.

May 17 :

-Vice-President Haley campaigns for President Rubio in Las Vegas, Nevada where she woos Hispanic voters (a crucial voting group that their fellow Hispanic Marco Rubio won with 55 % of the vote in 2016) by highlighting the Rubio Administration's successful efforts to reform America's immigration system and to grant U.S. citizenship for immigrants across the country, thus strengthening the America Dream and boosting the economy with a larger workforce

May 18 :

-Thanks to the increase of security measures in France, the police of Rouen succeeded to stop a terrorist attack by ISIS militants from Mali planned to be orchestrated for the 75th anniversary of the Normandy landings on June 6. As a result, their plan to kill innocent people in Rouen at this occasion failed.

May 19 :

-New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand declares 2020 presidential bid.

May 20 :

-During the 48th Summit of the Organization of American States, the OAS' General Assembly agrees to remove sanctions against Cuba and Venezuela due to their democratization.

May 21 :
-The U.S. Senate votes 96-3 for U.S. sanctions on Russian uranium exports to Iran.

May 22 :
-President Rubio holds a campaign fundraising event in Phoenix, Arizona.

May 23 :

-President Rubio campaigns in Colorado Springs, Colorado along with Colorado Governor Walker Stapleton on energy and coal, reminding voters that the end of the War on Coal by bringing unemployed coal miners back to the work force, by boosting job creation, by ensuring the development of clean coal technologies, by allowing America to take advantage of all of its sources of energy and to ensure access to heat for all Americans. He attacked Democratic presidential candidate John Hickenlooper's energy record as Governor of Colorado in which he signed executive orders increasing taxes and regulations on Colorado's coal industry. At this same occasion, President Rubio reminds that coal generates 70 % of Colorado's electricity and that a second war on coal is the last thing America needs for the sake of the economy and energy independence.

May 24 :
-President Rubio campaigns in California, especially in San Diego, San Bernardino, San Jose and Los Angeles, focusing on foreign policy and national security, highlighting his Administration's successful efforts to prevent a nuclear war with North Korea thanks to a rebuilding and reinforcement of America's military as well as of its presence on the Pacific Ocean, to a strengthening of America's defense alliances with its allies around the Pacific and to Jaapan's remilitarization last year.

May 25 :
-Vice-President Haley campaigns for President Rubio on in Minnesota on social security and health care, praising the effects of Rubiocare.

May 26 :

-New Jersey Senator Cory Booker announces his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.

May 27 :

-The House of Representatives approves U.S. sanctions on Russia's uranium exports to Iran in order to deprive Iran of the necessary nuclear energy they need to develop nuclear weapons that would be aimed at attacking the United States and its allies. The bill introduced by Senator Ann Wagner is later signed into law by President Rubio.

May 28 :

-President Rubio, his family and the members of his Administration celebrate the President's 48th birthday at the White House.

May 29 :

-During a foreign trip in the Middle East, President Rubio and his Secretary of State Lindsey Graham visit Syria to observe the progress of Syria's reconstruction and of the fight against ISIS. President Rubio meets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Syrian President Riad Darar, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Al-Hiri and Jordanian Prime Minister Hani Al-Mulki in Damascus, Syria where they all agreed to lead intelligence operations against the terrorist group of Hezbollah.