Mock Election Republican Party

== History ==
During the beginning of the MEC elections, it had a commanding majority in voter registration, and won presidential elections relatively easily. Japheth Hilton, the first President, brought along a large group of Christian Conservative Republicans (called Hiltonites) which gave them a massive majority in the registration poll (about 75%). They continued this dominance well into the first four seasons of MEC.
When the first congressional elections came by, however, the Democrats had closed the gap. A series of scandals and a lackluster field of Republican candidates, especially in the Senate races, prompted massive losses to the Democrats, wherein they ended up with just 1 seat in the Senate and none in the House, along with losing the presidency by a massive margin.
However, during the second House of Representatives elections held in October, the party recouped its losses. It fielded qualified candidates who were able to attract independents and moderate Democrats who were alienated by the Democrat's internal dispute about president Kelvin Hawthorne and flipped sides, leading to massive gains for the Republicans, and giving them control of the House of Representatives (Jason Nicasio, then the sole Libertarian House member, caucused with the GOP.)
In the November House Elections, the GOP retained control of the House. Tim Taft, a Libertarian, was elected in the newest district, D7, and caucused with the Republicans, and along with Nicasio, gave the Republicans a 5-2 majority.
In the December 2017 House elections, the House swung back to the Democrats with a 5-2 majority due to low Republican turnout. The GOP hadn't taken a majority in either chamber of Congress from then until the March 2018 Senate elections when they picked up several seats, taking a surprising 4-2 majority with the help of Libertarian Landen Shuey who caucused with them.
Afterwards the party didn't do very well, struggling to take a majority in either chamber of Congress or the Presidency. This lasted until June of 2018 when the GOP took the House and Presidency with Trey Cranfield being elected President along with securing a 5-2 majority in the House.
== Merge With Liberal Democrats ==
GOP Chairman Matthew Sorrells announced on MEC News that the GOP would be merging with the Liberal Democrats in order to create a big tent party named the New Republican Party. While created to unite people, it proved to be divisive as many Republicans opposed the merge such as Chris Miller and Rogue Thing (now known as Harry L. Crosby). Enough backlash was generated from the creation of the party that there was a conflict regarding whether or not to go with the merge. The newly elected GOP Chairman, Kenneth Quinones, ultimately made the decision to cancel the merge and dissolve the New Republicans. Most Republicans who did join returned to the GOP.
== Mass Resignation ==
After a stunning anti-incumbent wave in S22, Members of the GOP, created a movement called '#referendum.' The goal was to strive for new leadership elections, which had occurred one week before. Members included; Chase Stevens, Harry L. Crosby, and Epideli II. After a call with the Chairman, Ethan Davis, Ethan had decided to resign, and Brett Patrick took power. Brett Patrick was only in power for few hours, and soon resigned. Following this all members of the Republican Party began resigning their positions in leadership until almost all except two members, Mr. Icy and Chase Stevens were left. Subsequent, Mr. Icy resigned as Chair, and Chase became Chairman. This happened on a Saturday, and on the next day, Brett Patrick, Ethan Davis, Roman Thaddeus, Harry L. Crosby, Dom Cons (A Democrat) and a few others came together to create the Egalitarian Party, which was focused on Libertarian values. After much backlash to the Egalitarians getting a 'majority' in congress, and due to efforts from now GOP Chair Stevens, The Egalitarian fell the day it was created and the People went back to their parties, the GOP went back to the GOP, and the Democrats went back to the Democrats. The Wednesday following, elections were held. In the chairman race, Ethan Davis was running against Chase Stevens and lost in a landslide. The results in the other positions were; Liberal Representative: Horacio (Andrew Dominguez), Moderate Representative: Epideli II, Conservative Representative: Kobe Hunter, Libertarian Representative (New Position): Timothy Taft. The Senate elections the proceededthe, GOP lost 1 seat.
== Major Victory ==
After the resignation of GOP Chair Epideli, former Chair Ethan Davis became the GOP Chair. Davis inherited a party that was doing okay but could be better. He also got a half empty leadership team. Davis quickly filled all of the empty positions and got right to work on the incoming house elections. The team brought in some new members from the dying Democratic Party.
At the end of the night the GOP had 4 seats to the Dems 3 and one independent. The remaining seat, D7, had an error on the ballot so it had to go to a redo. On Sunday the redo came out and it was expected to be a GOP gain. On Monday morning D7 was projected for the GOP in a landslide victory. The GOP had won the house for the first time in over six months. This was a huge victory for the GOP and it showed the community that the GOP wasn't dead.
Not long after the house elections there was a snap leadership election. The current leadership team touted their good election results and the new members joining. The leadership team went on to be re-elected in a landslide victory.
== Downfall and Revival ==
After Ethan Davis resigned from Chairman position to focus on his duties as Vice President, Vice Chairman Kobe Hunter became Chairman. During this time activity in leadership declined and many Republicans left the party to join the newly founded American Independence Party. The GOP then lost every seat the House thy gained the prior elections. The GOP then became overshadowed by the AIP and the Progressive Party. After former Republican Roman Thaddeus formed the Conservative Party, where many remaining Republicans flocked to, essentially resulting in the fall of the GOP.
The Conservative Party received a major victory Season 28 Presidential Election when their nominee Chase Stevens won the Presidency and the party won the House. After the election the Conservative party became the Republican Party, thus resurrecting the GOP.
== Low Activity and Another Revival ==
Later, the Republican Party lost a lot of power and went into a low state. Connor Grant was Chairman for a little bit but decided not to run again. In the GOP Leadership election, Luke Zhang won the Chairmanship and James Hiatt was elected to the Vice-Chairman Position. During the chairmanship of Luke Zhang, the GOP started to gain some traction and more members started running and the GOP started to get more competitive. At the end of his term, Luke Zhang reestablished a GOP delegation. David Davidson won the following GOP Chairmanship election.
== 2020 Revolution ==
On the 29th of April, 2020, the GOP held an election to determine who their leadership would be. Before this, many members of the Democratic Party, dissatisfied with their leadership decided to revolt and join the GOP. This led to an increasing amount of support among Republicans. That election, the Republicans had elected Roman Thaddeus of Texas, to be their chairman, along with Harry L. Crosby of Washington as their Vice Chair. The GOP held a new "moderate" approach to politics, now supporting more liberal ideas such as Universal Basic Income and taking more moderate approaches on issues like abortion, LGBT+ rights, government spending, etc.
Exactly a week after this leadership election, prominent members of the Democratic Party, such as Jon Uberfeld, Robert Sanders, Luca Bennito, and Monique Best, had all announced that they would be forming the Green Party. This came after Monique Best had lost the Caesarean Senate primary to former owner of MEC, David Delaney by 4 votes. It could have also been the dissatisfaction that was part of the Democratic Party with the leadership that caused the Democrats to leave to join the GOP. 
That same night, Vice Chairman of the DNC, Tom Kirkman had announced he would be resigning his position in the DNC and forming the Liberal Democrats. Along with Kirkman, the whole Democratic leadership joined the Liberal Democrats. Polling indicated afterwards, the Republicans had a massive advantage over both parties. That day, Independent Senator, Logan Rabe, announced he would be caucusing with the GOP.
For the first time in many elections, Republicans had a candidate for every seat (Governor & Senate) and had a shot at winning the upcoming election and taking the Senate and expanding their majority in the NGA.
==Presidential Candidates==
=== Season 1 ===
* Tim Taft (Withdrew)
* Caleb Andrew (Withdrew)
* Japheth Hilton (Nominee, winner)
=== Season 2 ===
* Tim Taft (Nominee, withdrew)
=== Season 3 ===
* Ethan Kelly (Nominee, winner)
* Tim Taft (Defeated)
* Note: Taft actually won the Republican Primary but due to voter fraud accounts by Ethan Kelly and Cruxana Opius, Taft was never declared the winner and consequently Ethan Kelly became the nominee.
=== Season 8 ===
* Caleb Caron (Nominee, defeated)
* Thomas Tarter (Withdrew)
* Caleb Andrew (Withdrew to run for house)
* Christian Louthan (Withdrew)
=== Season 9 ===
* Caleb Caron (Defeated)
* Thomas Tarter (Withdrew)
* Rouge The Bat (Denied ballot access)
* Fernando (Withdrew)
* Adam Evans (Nominee, defeated)
=== Season 11 ===
* Jon S Überfeld (Nominee, winner)
* Stephen Bryant (Defeated)
* Dylan Short (Withdrew)
=== Season 12 ===
* Jon S Überfeld (Nominee, winner)
* Fernando Diaz (Withdrew)
* Rouge Thing (Defeated)
=== Season 13 ===
* Max Finland (Withdrew)
* pearsforlife 12 (aka James Mitchell) (Withdrew)
* Louis Allen (Withdrew)
* JP Cenzo (Withdrew)
* Caleb Andrew (Withdrew)
* Adam Evans (Nominee, defeated)
* Domenic Hoxholli (Defeated)
* JackM Vlogs (Withdrew)
* Joshua Huntington (Withdrew)
=== Season 14 ===
* Max Finland (Nominee, withdrew)
* Ryan Servis (Defeated)
* Conservative Chico (Defeated)
=== Season 15 ===
* Trey Cranfield (Nominee, winner)
* Jacelyn (Withdrew)
* JP Cenzo (Defeated)
* Robert Kennedy (Withdrew)
=== Season 16 ===
* Chris Miller (Nominee, withdrew)
* Brayden George (Denied ballot access)
* Alexander Bentz (Denied ballot access).
* Infinite Kid 100 (Withdrew)
=== Season 17 ===
* Quron Sainsbury (Nominee, withdrew)
* Ryan Servis (Withdrew)
* Louis Allen (Defeated)
* Clint Eastwood (Defeated)
=== Season 18 ===
* Jakob Tawney (Nominee, defeated)
* Chris Miller (Defeated)
* Louis Allen (Defeated)
* Sawyer Cunningham (Withdrew)
* Infinite Kid 100 (Withdrew)
=== Season 19 ===
* Ryan Servis (Nominee, defeated)
* Epideli II (Defeated)
* Robert Kennedy (Withdrew)
=== Season 20 ===
* Fernando Diaz (Nominee, winner)
* Sawyer Cunningham (Defeated)
=== Season 21 ===
* Jasper Lee (Nominee, withdrew)
* Trey Cranfield (Withdrew)
* Kelvin Hawthorne (Denied ballot access)
=== Season 23 ===
* Tim Taft (withdrew)
* Joseph Brosnahan
=== Season 28 ===
*Chase Stevens (Nominee, winner)
=== Season 29 ===
*David Davidson (Nominee, lost)
*Chase Stevens (Defeated)
== Season 30 ==
*James Hiatt
*Stephen Bryant (Withdrew)
*John Geller (Withdrew)
== Season 31 ==
Brett Patrick
Jakob Tawney
Harvey Long
Sheriff Yimby aka David Davidson (suspended campaign)
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