The Rise of an Old, New, America: 2018-?

[Boss_Rahm]

By the way, what do you guys think about this TL compared to my first one, you have to admit it's format and presentation is much better even if you think the election results are unrealistic.

The formatting is alright; more paragraph breaks would be helpful. And I'd suggest working on your writing style, a lot of the sentences ramble on and aren't super clear.

[King Lear]

The first part of 2019
     Once the 116th Congress was sworn in on January 3rd 2019, Ryan and McConnell immediately took advantage of their larger majorities to seek the passage of a bold and radical Conservative agenda. On February 27th the House and Senate passed “Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security Privatization Act” on a party line vote. The next day President Trump signed it into law, while Democrats in Congress and the media ripped him for violating his campaign promises, however Trump fired back and said his “Wealthy and educated” supporters don’t support any form of “Government handouts” and accused Democrats of being the party of “Lazy Minorities and Millennials”. These comments caused a massive firestorm on CNN and MSNBC, while FOX news praised the president for “finally saying the truth about what types of people are destroying are country”. However, like most Trump scandals after a few weeks it was overshadowed by other stories, especially the fact that the Dow Jones hit 35,000 by the end of March. Meanwhile, Democrats were starting to announce their plans for the 2020 presidential election, on January 17th Joe Biden announced he would not run in 2020, due to his desire for Democrats to find more youthful leadership, this was followed by Bernie Sanders announcement that he wouldn’t run either on February 20th, he stated that his health and stamina was fine but he would rather fight Republicans in the senate instead of launch a presidential bid that was probably doomed for failure. Political analysts said the reason for them not running had to do with Democrats abysmal performance in the 2018 midterms and the fact neither Biden or Sanders wanted to end their political careers with a brutal presidential defeat at the hands of Trump. With Sanders bowing out of contention, progressives started to lobby Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren to run in his place, to their contentment, She announced her campaign for President on March 15th 2019, becoming the first high profile Democrat to launch a 2020 presidential bid. Trump immediately lashed out at her and tweeted “Pocahontas can’t beat me, but I’ll beat her in every state except her s**ty home state of Massachusetts”. However, unlike past outbursts that helped Trump this one didn’t go as planned, as Warren immediately fired back and said “You love to accuse me lying about my heritage by claiming to have American Indian ancestry, but in your book you claimed to be Swedish because you were embarrassed to admit you were a German in New York City”, she also said that she was proud of her state that had some of the best universities in the country and was home to one of the oldest settlements in the new world (Plymouth Rock), and was arguably responsible for founding the United States by being the first place to revolt against the British in 1775. Due to this Many prominent Democrats started to endorse Warren, hoping that Trump may underestimate her compared to other candidates. However, this concerned the Centrist wing of the Party which worried she was less electable then Hillary, and immediately started lobbying either Senators Harris, Gillibrand, or Booker to enter the race. Of these three Harris and Gillibrand both announced their intention not to seek the nomination by the end of March, but Cory Booker took the advice and announced his campaign on April 10th, promising to bring “New ideas”, “Bipartisanship”, and “Love” to Washington. Both Warren and Trump immediately slammed him as a “Weak Corporate sellout” who was obsessed with “Identity politics”. The first polls of the Democratic nomination fight were released a few days later and showed Warren with 55-35 lead over Booker, their also were polls of the general election matchups and they showed Trump with a 50-45 lead over Warren and a 53-43 lead over Booker. By the end of April, Trumps approval had dropped slightly to 50%, due to the unpopularity of the “Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security Privatization Act” along with Trumps clearly detiorating faculties. However, the fact he still had an obvious lock on about half of the nations voters, along with the Democrats smaller then expected field (Warren and Booker were the only major candidates to announce so far), caused Republicans to feel confident that Trump would win reelection and that they would maintain their massive majorities in the House and Senate.

2020 Democratic Nomination polling average (April 30th 2019):
Elizabeth Warren: 55%
Cory Booker: 35%
2020 General Election polling average (April 30th 2019):
Trump vs. Warren:
Donald Trump: 50%
Elizabeth Warren: 45%
Trump vs. Booker:
Donald Trump: 53%
Cory Booker: 43%

[erſatz-york]

great tl

[King Lear]

The Middile of 2019
On May 15th a third Democratic contender announced a presidential campaign, New York Governor Andrew Coumo, in his announcement speech he states that America needed a President with "executive experience", and listed all the amazing Liberal accomplishments he had achieved as New York Governor. Immediately he was attacked by Warren for being a "Corporate Democrat" who cut Taxes as Governor, while Trump immediately tweeted out that "If crooked Coumo is nominated by the Democrat party, he'll get wiped out once I order the DOJ to investigate his ties with the Italian Mafia". Booker, didn't criticize Coumo as harshly as Warren and Trump, because he was facing his own accusations of being a currupt, Corporate, candidate. At the start of June the latest polling for the Democratic Nomination, showed Warren comfortably leading at 50%, with Booker a distant second at 30%, and Coumo in last place at 10%, Meanwhile Trump's approval had dropped slightly to 48%. The rest of June was realativly quite with the exception of the fact that the Stock Market had reached 36,000, and the first two quarters saw GDP growth of 3.7% and 4% respectively. On July 11th, Democrats held their first Presidential debate (hosted by CNN) between the three candidates Warren, Booker, and Cuomo. Due to her status as the apparent front runner, Warren was ferociously attacked by Booker, who accused her of being a grand stander who really didn't believe in her policy positions and who was the weakest candidate who according to him "would lose in a Landslide if she becomes the nominee", Warren immediately fired back and said "Your attacks seem to be describing yourself", and then went on to describe all the work she did standing up for Working Americans by creating the CFBP. Coumo faced a tough question from Anderson Cooper asking him whether he had any credibility describing the Trump administration as corrupt when three of his closest associates were serving in Prison due to corruption convictions, he responded very defensively and accused CNN of "actively supporting Trumps reelection so they could get another 4 years of sensationalized coverage to boost their low ratings". The consensus from most pundits was that Warren cemented her front runner status and that Bookers attack on her backfired spectacularly, while Coumo was roundly criticized for his extremely defensive response to Anderson Coopers question on his Courupt associates, many were speculating that he might dropout before the Iowa caucus. Trump responded to the debate by tweeting that "All three of those Democrats are total losers, they all know I'd beat them in a Landslide, so all they can do is fight each other and throw red meat to their base of degenerates and losers", His tweet was widely ridiculed by the media, but like thousands of others it failed to push the needle one way or another. After the debate Warren had a slight polling bump to 53% while Booker dropped to 27%, and Coumo crashed to 5% in the average of Democratic nomination polling conducted at the end of July, while Trumps approval increased to 49%. On August 17th Democrats held another debate (also hosted by CNN), and the result was largely the same, Booker was criticized by Warren for being a disingenuous, flip-flopper, while Booker attempted to accuse Warren of being unelectable, meanwhile Coumo struggled to answer increasingly difficult questions about his corruption accusations. The media responded by declaring Warren the winner and the calls grew stronger for Coumo to drop out. By The end of August, polls showed that Warren had risen to 55%, while Booker had drooped to 25%, and Coumo crashed to 2%, while Trumps approval had risen to 55% due to the Economic boom.

[erſatz-york]

Keep it up

I am skeptical though that Trump would have a 55% approval rating, especially after privatization of M’care, M’caid, and Social Security.