2024 United States presidential election (Frozen War)

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The 2024 U.S. presidential election was the 60th quadrennial American presidential election, held on a Tuesday, at midnight on November 5th, 2020. 
Republican libertarian-centrist 'unity ticket' of Senator Randal Howard Paul and former-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney defeated the incumbent Democratic ticket of President Joe Biden and incumbent Vice President Kamala Harris. Paul took office as the 48th president, and Romney as the 51st vice president, on December 20, 2025. 
Rand Paul, former-President Trump, former-Mass. Governor Mitt Romney, former-SC Gov. Nikki Haley, Rep. Liz Cheney, Mass. Gov. Charlie Baker and Sen. Ted Cruz lead the contentious Republican primary field; while V.P. Kamala Harris, incumbent-President Joe Biden, Interior Sec. Deb Haaland and Transportation Sec. Pete Buttigieg emerge from a 30-candidate race as the frontrunners.
==Background==
The 2024 presidential election arguably began as soon as Biden was declared the winner of the previous contest, with a majority of Republicans supporting a third Trump presidential run for a second-term in office. Former-president Donald Trump announced his 2024 bid for the White House on New Years' Eve 2020, with Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, former-South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Rep. Joe Kennedy III, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Pres. Joe Biden announcing the following Holidays 2021-2022. Former-First Lady Obama would poll ahead of the field until Biden announces his run - which Obama herself endorses - with Harris in second, the former dominating 2-1 among conservatives and moderates while splitting the liberal and independent vote evenly. Buttigieg would poll third, most strongly among conservatives while maintaining his support from billionaires and the 1% which he accrued during the 2020 primary, with only then-Sens. Harris, Booker and the former-Vice President himself (most of Harris's and Booker's localized in Silicon Valley and New Jersey respectively) outpacing Buttigieg briefly in the first half of 2019, before skyrocketing to nipping at Biden's heels for the remainder of the 2020 primary.
The Second American Civil War is declared – recognized from 2020 with President Trump's police state assault on Portland, Seattle and the Federal District (and his thereafter escalation in Omaha and Arizona in response to the election) to 2024 – with Texas (whose votes delivered a popular vote victory to President Trump similar to Clinton’s California popular vote victory in 2016, despite losing the Electoral College to Biden in November 2020) declaring independence from the United States and declaring Donald Trump the rightful President-elect of the United States, and New York attempting to do the same but supporting the legitimacy of Clinton instead, claiming she was the rightful President on 11/8/16. This eventually results in a heightened period of civil unrest in New England, Manhattan and the surrounding New York Metropolitan Area due to the high concentration of both pro-Trump and anti-Trump demographics. The Governor of New York – Hillary Clinton – spearheads a union of local Democratic government officials along with the Pentagon and the FBI to preserve the unity and economy of the region, even if it meant secession. 
Upon the horizon of the 2024 presidential election – fearing escalation and doom in a period of heightened emotions – American Civil War II quickly transforms into an American Cold War, with the battle lines drawn between the U.S. and the emerging separatist factions in Texas, New England and the Manhattan-NYC Region. After Biden’s collapse in early 2022 and Harris ascending as interim president and selecting Deb Haaland as acting-VP, corporate media, New York City and even Harris's very own "KHive" (which rebrand as QHive after joining forces with QAnon after asserting that the Bernie and Haaland left were to blame for everything) come down hard on the first Black female President of the United States, whom they accuse of sabotaging and hijacking the Biden presidency after accepting the VP nomination and acting as a "Trojan horse" for Haaland's selection as Vice President, which seen as a 'slight' against Clinton, Pelosi and the establishment and a gesture of preference for the "Bernie Bros" and "Trumpism" over her and the corporate Democrats like Biden, and simultaneously the Trump Republicans jump in - accusing the President of a 'Chinese-Communist coup' - and are raucously supported by the former-Rebel Southern states across the former-Confederacy. With both the Trump-led Republicans, and Clinton-led Democrats, attacking viciously Acting-President Harris and Vice President Haaland (far moreso the latter than the former) - they find themselves strangely allied on the eve of the 2024 elections and the increasingly polarized narrative between the partially-recognized autonomous regions.
Although clearly against a Harris-Haaland ticket in 2024, the Clintons would employ moderate establishment Republican Sen. Mitt Romney to stop the rapid ascent of anti-war libertarian Republican Sen. Rand Paul and another run from former-President Trump. After losing his home state of Utah, Romney drops out to form an alliance of convenience with Trump against Paul, whose ally-turned-adversary Donald Trump he was locked in a neck-and-neck nailbiter against the former president for the GOP nomination. A contested convention temporarily blocks Paul - allowing the establishment one last chance to elevate Trump against the Biden-Harris ticket - but Romney Republicans attempting to get him in swing it to Paul in the end. With the Romney-Biden "left" threatening to vote Democrat once again, Paul - as opposed to picking the expected running-mate in Nikki Haley - selects Mitt Romney in an effort to unite the Republicans and progressives against Donald Trump. On the Democratic side, a contested convention also occurs when Biden recovers from his injuries early in 2023, maintaining reelection plans he announced nearly two years earlier. Harris maintains her announcement from late 2022, intending to "continue the debates [her and Biden] had in 2020," and a rather cordial yet competitive primary between Harris and Biden ensues, leaving Sec. Haaland and the three other candidates (Sec. Buttigieg, Sen. Klobuchar and Rep. Kennedy III) largely in the dust. Although a Harris-Haaland ticket appears on the horizon, the recount sees the superdelegates break overwhelmingly for President Biden, along even with most delegates from Vice President Harris' own home-state of California.
[[File:2024electioncartograph.png|thumb|350px|left|The infamous 'cartogram projection' that turned out to be 99% accurate that was mocked in a vast majority of cable news (including Fox News) senior Democratic Party officials, MAGA and "Romney-Biden Republicans" alike, after Sen. Rand Paul began closing in on former-Pres. Trump in the polls.]]
President Biden's health fails him once again on the eve of the election, the Biden-Harris ticket would go on to lose in almost a landslide to Paul-Romney in the November 2024 presidential election.
New York City, California and Long Island officially become autonomous State Republics supporting an unrecognized President (Clinton) and as they become the unrecognized states of the Republic of Texas, California and the Atlantic State - which begins in Long Island and spreads to Maryland, Mexico is offered a chance via cross-borders referendum to unite with these new countries - which refuses. With each secessionist movement across the world, including in the Americas, rallying in support of Gov. Clinton and the emerging Atlantic American 'rebellion' against Trump and the Democrats, this publicly-broadcast tension at fever-pitch across all walks of life further exacerbates the unrest unfolding in New York City and surrounding populations centers (across New England and the Western United States). NATO and UN peacekeepers supported by France, the United Kingdom, European Union, CIA, and other rogue elements of the U.S. Government rising up against the rogue state, attempt to start a countermovement to the effort to erect the AS-proposed Union between California and Mexico. The Mexican Government, incredibly opposed to the movement to create a union between itself, California and surrounding states in opposition to Texas (and by extension with Texas and the South against California) - mainly in the countries of China, the Arab League, Saudi Arabia, and the Pacific Commonwealth Nations - vehemently and exuberantly full-throatedly supports the counter-effort by the US intelligence community and UN to stop Clinton, Cruz and the Separatists in their tracks.
==2024 Republican Party presidential primaries==
==General election campaign==
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