Chawosaurian Support for Joe Biden

## Act of the Chawopolis Palace

Joe Biden campaigning for President in 2019

## Piece of Legislation

### Long Title

*Official 2020 United States Presidential Election Endorsement of the Imperial Government of the Seven Seas of the Seven Continents of the Union of Continental Federal Republics of the Empire of Chawosauria*

## Legislative History

* **Introduced by** Prime Minister Jezebel Isela Boleslaus **on** October 15, 2020.
* **Unanimously passed by the** 25th Chawopolis Palace **on** October 15, 2020.
* **Signed into Law and given Royal Assent by Supreme Leader** Shang Jong Parker **on** October 15, 2020.
* **Struck Down on** June 17, 2021 **by the** Supreme Court of the Empire of Chawosauria **as unconstitutional**

## Major Lawsuits

*Oceania v. Parker*

On October 15, 2020, the Imperial Government of the Empire of Chawosauria officially endorsed Joe Biden (former Vice President under Barack Obama and U.S. Senator from Delaware) for President of the United States in the 2020 election over the incumbent President Donald Trump.

An unprecedented move by the Empire of Chawosauria, Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker staged a live gathering of Veteran Supreme Leaders Joseph Mario Lopez, Oconostota Eluwilussit, and Ekewaka Mikala Kalawai'a, and Veteran Prime Ministers Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII and Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy III, all of whom endorsing Joe Biden for President. During the gathering, the memory of Veteran Prime Minister Jonathan Dragan Boleslaus IX was invoked, Boleslaus was Chawosauria's first COVID-19 death, Boleslaus was killed by the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States on March 25, 2020.

Shang Parker condemned Trump by saying had Trump told the American people the truth about Coronavirus Disease 2019 from the very beginning of the outbreak, Jonathan Dragan Boleslaus IX would have been living this very moment. The Chawosaurian public was moved by Parker's endorsement of Biden, and Chawosaurian Americans who live in the United States were widely encouraged to vote for Biden. In the political opposition to Shang Jong Parker, there was a division among the anti-communist resistance on who to endorse, Charles Muskie, the incumbent Leader of the Opposition, endorsed Donald Trump, while the liberal faction of the Anti-Parkerian opposition endorsed Biden and the conservative faction of the Anti-Parkerian opposition mostly support Trump while others support other candidates in the 2020 election. In the socialist inner circle of Shang Jong Parker, there was unified support for Parker's endorsement for Biden, while Muskie's endorsement of Donald Trump did not have unified support in the anti-socialist resistance to Parker.

Never in Chawosaurian history has the Imperial Government endorse a political candidate of any nation for election until 2020. While Chawosaurians are moved by Shang Parker invoking Jonathan Boleslaus' memory and knowledge that his death was actually preventable, Chawosaurians do not support the endorsement of Joe Biden, 69% of Chawosaurians said they oppose the endorsement, to 26% said they support the endorsement, but Chawosaurians do prefer Joe Biden over Trump at 93% for Biden to Trump's 4%.

Democrat, Joe Biden, ended up winning the Presidency of the United States, defeating the sitting President Donald Trump, and won 306 electoral votes to Trump's 232 (ironically the same result of 2016 but on the opposite side), and making it worse for Trump, he called his own 306 electoral votes a landslide victory, except Biden, won a "double landslide" because unlike Trump, Biden won the popular vote at 51%, a clear majority.

Trump resisted the election results and tried countless times via wasting the time of the entire judiciary with baseless voter fraud cases, pressuring state governments to change the electoral votes of their states, and a literal violent uprising at the U.S. Capitol all failing to do just that. Due to royally failing to topple the U.S. Capitol to overthrow the 2020 election to stay in power, Trump faced severe retribution from Congress by them still validating Biden's victory along with losing planned Republican objections right in the process, weakening support from congressional Republicans that many are calling for his removal or resignation and one threatening to break off from the party, and a potential second impeachment which no President has ever suffered until now. It doesn't help Trump's standing among the Republican establishment so much that the Democratic Party won control of the U.S. Senate through two U.S. Senate runoff elections in the State of Georgia, won by two energetic Democratic candidates: Reverent Raphael Warnock and Documentarian Jon Ossoff. Due to the U.S. Capitol disaster, Trump was permanently banned from Twitter out of fear that he could incite another rebellion, as well as Big Tech striking down the right-wing internet and social media out of fear of subsequent right-wing terrorism.

The endorsement violated Amendment IX of the Chawosaurian Constitution, the Federal Republic of Oceania took the endorsement to the Supreme Court of the Empire of Chawosauria via lawsuit *(Oceania v. Parker)* in March 2021 for review, and it is highly likely this endorsement will be struck down by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional. On June 17, 2021, the Supreme Court of the Empire of Chawosauria unanimously revoked Chawosauria's endorsement of Joe Biden for President of the United States as unlawful and unconstitutional, and the endorsement resolution was ineffective ever since.

In February 2022, criminal investigations were launched against Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker, Prime Minister Jezebel Isela Boleslaus, and the rest of the 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government leadership and past leaderships from the 24th Chawopolis Palace.

## Background

In the November 2016 election for the presidency in the United States, Businessman Donald Trump of the Republican Party unexpectedly defeated the widely-predicted-President Hillary Clinton in the electoral college despite Clinton finishing with a slim popular vote victory of just 2% separating Clinton and Trump. Trump succeeded the term-limited Barack Obama on January 20, 2017, as the 45th President of the United States, but Trump began his presidency in a rocky position, allegations of electoral corruption with the Russian Federation inks all over Trump and his administration, as well as Trump slipping all over himself as he finds himself in the world's toughest job in human history, and ideological tensions within the Republican Party over how to repeal Obama's crowning jewel accomplishment: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (also known as the Affordable Care Act, or commonly known as Obamacare). All of these problems tanked Trump's presidential approval ratings and his popularity never really recovered throughout his entire presidency so far when it became apparent that Trump was gonna spend his presidency constantly derailing his entire presidency, doing so by goofing off on Twitter, complain about being constantly criticized by the media and opponents, and wasting time attacking anyone who either disagrees with him or just dislikes him, this pattern of behavior cost him critical support among Independent voters, suburban women, the suburbs in general, and moderates, adding to the *opposition* Democratic Party's ability to win back the House of Representatives in the 2018 midterm elections.

Meanwhile, in the Chawosaurian world, Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker took office on January 1, 2020, after defeating an incumbent, Ekewaka Mikala Kalawai'a (also known as EMK), in a landslide victory of 80% to EMK 15% in the October 2019 election. Shang Parker's Communist Party took control of the Imperial legislature called the Chawopolis Palace after defeating a first-time non-communist supermajority in the October 2019 legislative elections, and the Communists took back the Palace on the same day Shang Parker takes office.

The non-communists were entirely kicked out of power due to incompetence as a first-time ruling party. The non-communists were linked to Donald Trump because of Cold War history. The United States, in which Trump is serving as President, was the leader of the anti and non-communist world against the Soviet Union, the leader of communism. The capitalists were split on rather they want to distance themselves from Trump, but in the 2020 Chawosaurian Opposition leadership election, they elected Charles Muskie, a Trumpist, to lead the political opposition to Shang Jong Parker.

In the beginning months of 2020, the world was struck by a COVID-19 pandemic, the outbreak began in China in a city known as Wuhan, the virus stroke out of a so-called "wet market" where live animals are slaughtered and sold to people, but China is known to have a network of literally a variety of animal species being farmed, many of these species carry viruses, thus a COVID ticking bomb was already about to explode. From around October 2019 up to the end of the year itself, in Wuhan, a developing number of Wuhan residents were seeking medical attention for symptoms of dry cough and a fever, to pneumonia, and unfortunately, some have died. By December 31, 2019, Chinese officials, doctors, etc, have come to the conclusion that some kind of "coronavirus disease (COVID)" is being mutated in people whom 27 of the first COVID patients have been to the same wet market in Wuhan, leading to the infamous name: Coronavirus Disease 2019, or COVID-19 for short.

As the virus expands from China to elsewhere in the world, many feared a pandemic might be coming, and meanwhile, in the United States, President Trump, who was facing impeachment proceedings in the House of Representatives and soon impeachment trial proceedings in the Senate for a scandal that involves Ukraine, was repeatedly warned about the possibility of a COVID-19 outbreak in the United States, but Trump believed attention on the COVID-19 outbreak may possibly destroy the stock market, thus weakening his ability to win reelection due to a strong U.S. economy, so in order to either prevent or suppress a media firestorm on the COVID-19 outbreak, Trump attempted to downplay the COVID-19 outbreak by doing little to outright nothing about it, falsely saying he has COVID-19 "totally under control", either calling COVID-19, or comparing COVID-19 to Influenza, and predicted that the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S. will be short-lived than scientists publicly anticipated. None of Trump's predictions and analysis of COVID-19 were even close to coming true as the year progresses, COVID-19 turned out to be pretty worse than Influenza despite there are similar traits of the two infectious diseases, the United States presently leads the world with the most COVID cases; an ultimate testament of the Trump Presidency in the COVID Age and one of the main pillars of the Trump legacy.

Trump's downplaying of the virus failed to prevent the stock market from crumbling and failed to keep the economy up-and-down running, leaving Trump in a weakened position because without a strong economy to explain to voters as to why he should be reelected, Trump has no other issue that favors him, Americans are generally culturally liberal on abortion, LGBTQ rights, and immigration compared to a decade earlier, where more Americans at the time of the 2000s opposed same-sex marriage, more Americans were pro-life than they're presently are in 2020, and Americans wanted tough regulations on immigration back in the 2000s than they do now. In 2020, the non-white populations of America is higher than it was in the 2000s, resulting in the Southwestern United States (the predominant home of descendants of mostly Spanish-speaking Hispanic immigrants who settled in this part of the United States) trending towards the Democratic Party. In the 2018 midterm elections, the Republican Party got whipped by Hispanic voters across the Southwest, California and New Mexico (except for 2004) had already voted Democratic since 1992, Colorado and Nevada became strong Democratic states in 2008, and since Trump's arrival to politics, Republicans started to weaken their strength in Texas and Arizona, thus making the 2020 presidential election a very complicated election for the Trump campaign to swing in their favor from the very beginning of the election season. Trump began to lose ground in the Midwest since the first year of his presidency, Trump dominated the midwest so much that he flipped three key Democratic states: Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennslyvania, becoming the first Republican since Reagan to win Wisconsin and since Bush 41 to win Michigan and Pennslyvania. By winning these three states, Trump had demolished what was called *"the blue wall"* and these voters in these once-industrialized Midwestern states who had voted for Barack Obama and the Democratic Party in general but split to Trump became known as "Obama-Trump voters" whom some of them are probably the blood descendants of so-called "Reagan Democrats". In the history of the Midwest, especially Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennslyvania, these Midwestern Americans in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennslyvania have ancestors who were industrial workers, part of the Northern United States which was a really heavily industrialized region, that was an ultimate disadvantage for the Confederacy during the American Civil War, also because in comparison to the North, the Southern United States was a cotton field empire that was kept alive by the backs of African-American slaves, giving Northern war strategists the ability to use the south's economic resource against them, resulting in the Lincoln administration to issue the emancipation proclamation to free slaves in Confederate territory to economically weaken the Confederacy, and it worked.

As a result of the rise of free trade and corporate influence over politics, the Midwest started to suffer from an economic downturn with the loss of jobs caused by job outsourcing enabled by free trade agreements and legislative deregulation on corporate activity, both part of a so-called "neoliberal" agenda promoted by right-wing and some centrist politicians, and after years of supporting Democratic Party presidential candidates from 1992 to 2012 for the past 20-years, the voters from these three states felt inspired to vote for Trump because of his opposition to job outsourcing, opposition to free trade, and smack-talk towards Hillary Clinton, resulting in the Democrats losing grip of these three states. Trump took office on January 20, 2017, and immediately, chaos and a string of scandals started derailing Trump's presidency, 2017 has been a terrible year for Trump's approval ratings, Trump's support for a healthcare bill seeking to replace Obamacare cost him little support he enjoyed as President, to suffering from a horrible approval rating as low as around 37% or lower. By the year 2018, it became clear that Trump was going to spend his entire presidency whining on Twitter over being criticized for his unpopular policies and his personal zeal, golfing repeatedly, and spend the entire 2018 midterm election year stoking racial tensions. The Republicans were hurt by their vote to pass the horribly-unpopular American Health Care Act of 2017, which sought to repeal and replace Obamacare, resulting in the GOP sliding down hard out of majority party status by 42 seats in the House in the House elections for the 116th Congress. The Democrats regained their holy grail: healthcare, thanks to Republican incompetence in their handling of the Obamacare crisis and by the COVID-19 pandemic, this holy grail would prove crucial in the 2020 elections.

By the concluding months of the 2020 election year, the 2016 anti-Trump vote rallied around Joe Biden: 2016 third party voters, 2016 Clinton voters, and added to the mix, turned off Independents and Suburban voters who previously voted for Trump, and then finally thanks to Trump's mismanagement of COVID, American seniors felt betrayed by Trump after three years of Trump enjoying strong senior support, then lost that support for pushing for reopening of the country despite a COVID-19 pandemic, which seniors interpreted this as Trump saying seniors must be sacrificed to appease the economy and its elites, so with Trump losing seniors for enjoyed strong support from this age group starting in his 2016 victory, and the fact that seniors vote more than young people, Trump was placed in an even weaker position that not even the electoral college will be able to save Trump this time.

Trump failed miserably to define Biden, while Obama, Clinton, Reagan, and Nixon were able to define their challengers in their reelection quests. Obama, his reelection campaign, and the Democrats successfully labeled Mitt Romney as an out-of-touch limousine businessman who is apathetic to working-class issues, resulting in Romney getting trounced by Obama despite outperforming John McCain, Obama's previous opponent from his first election. Reagan defined Walter Mondale as an elitist, tax-spending liberal who would disrupt the recent economic recovery the United States experienced by the year 1983, Reagan also said that Mondale would be soft on the Soviet Union if he was President, resulting in Mondale losing to Reagan in a landslide so big that Reagan nearly won all 50-states. Nixon defined George McGovern, along with help from the media, as a far-leftist, enabling Nixon to crush McGovern in the 1972 election.

Trump tries and fails, to make the 2020 presidential election into a 1972-like presidential election, by trying to make Joe Biden into a George McGovern, in other words, trying to make Biden looking like a far-leftist, but with one problem, Biden actually ran against and mercilessly defeats Bernie Sanders, a man who is seen by many as a typical leftist, in the 2020 primaries for the Democratic Party nomination for President, Biden publicly denounced left-wing politics and its agenda and embraced the centrist approach to politics, which Democratic primary voters felt this is the safest way they could go into defeating Trump, especially with winning suburban and independent voters, two groups Trump is struggling with. In the first presidential debate, Trump tries to call Biden a leftist, only for Biden to say he does not embrace the left-wing agenda and he defeated a candidate who was fighting for that same agenda, in response, Trump contradicted himself by saying Biden "lost the radical-left" by rejecting the progressive agenda, though Trump just called Biden a "radical leftist". This made Trump appearing obliviously desperate for reelection and desperate to define Biden, only to fail miserably on TV, resulting in Biden spiking in the polls though the first debate was widely seen, as Dana Bash from CNN puts it: "a shit show". By Halloween 2020, the election was completely over for Trump as he wasted the entire election year alienating seniors with his poor COVID-19 response, self-destroying himself by showing desperation that he clearly knows he is in trouble, only to tank himself even further in his attempts to save himself, an example was the first presidential debate, which was a golden opportunity for Trump to turn his campaign around and win over undecided voters, it was such a golden opportunity that Biden could disappoint his cautious base, but Trump blew it up by being rude, interrupting and overtaking Biden in an attempt to derail him, and spitting out right-wing talking points that don't actually address the real issues Americans are facing. Trump failed miserably to save his campaign as he fails to win over undecided voters, though Biden too failed to win over them as well, he later rose in the polls and was allowed by Trump to run away from the debate as the victor.

Trump got infected with COVID-19, leaving Chawosaurian historians to predict a "Websterian collapse of Donald Trump" and left the United States and the world a little shocked but half the country unsympathetic considering the fact that he caught a virus that he failed to control, and that had Trump controlled the virus' contagion, he would not get infected. The entire Trump White House got infected, something that never happened with Webster when he caught the flu during the 1918 flu pandemic in 1919, Trump was hospitalized that returned an active COVID-19 patient without any regard for the safety of unaffected White House employee, this caused further damage to Trump's poll numbers for the November 2020 elections that there was no sympathy bump as some people were predicting.

## Chawosaurian Endorsement of Joe Biden

### Motivation

Chawosauria sees that Donald Trump, by October 2020, seemed very vulnerable because of his ill-management of the COVID-19 pandemic, his refusal to heal racial tensions caused by the fallout of George Floyd's death, and his already unpopularity.

Chawosaurian Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker (who was born in China in 1960) gets constantly angry over his people being associated with COVID-19 simply because the disease was born in China, Parker is hurt even more when Chinese Americans are associated with COVID-19 by their own President of the United States. In the workforce of the Parker administration, the terms: "Chinavirus", "Kung Flu", or whatever term associates China with COVID-19, are banned by Shang Parker their boss because "these terms are offensive to Mr. Parker". On September 29, 2020, a Parker employee, Johnny Beckett, was fired by Shang Parker for reportedly using the word "Kung Flu" in a joke about COVID-19, Beckett confirmed the allegation and attempted to apologize to Parker, but Parker terminated his employment, in other words, Parker fired Beckett despite his apology, Beckett is unable to find another job due to Chawosauria's COVID-19 Lockdown.

### The Endorsement

It greatly seemed like Donald Trump was electorally toast for sure without a doubt by the end of the 2020 campaign trial in the U.S. with COVID-19 cases only getting worse by the day despite Trump's pleading with voters that the curve was flattening, and his ineffective debate performance in the final presidential debate that, to be fair, demolished the damage his first debate performance caused but still failed to win over nonpartisan voters by defending his unpopular response to the COVID-19 pandemic and his unpopular role in Obamacare's fight for survival in the Supreme Court.

On October 15, 2020, Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker, Veteran Supreme Leaders Ekewaka Mikala Kalawai'a (2019), Joseph Mario Lopez (2015), and Oconostota Eluwilussit (2017), and Veteran Prime Ministers Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII (2000-2009) and Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy III (2020), all joined together in a live gathering message to the Empire of Chawosauria to endorse Joe Biden for President of the United States, and the 25th Chawopolis Palace were encouraged to pass a resolution endorsing Biden in a bipartisan margin.

### Condemnation of Trump

Shang Jong Parker invoked the memory of the late Veteran Prime Minister Jonathan Dragan Boleslaus IX (Prime Minister 2010-2019 / Lifespan 1950-2020), Boleslaus died in the COVID-19 pandemic, alongside his daughter Jedida Isela Boleslaus in the spring of 2020, and Parker said that had Trump took earlier action against the pandemic, Boleslaus would be living today. This resonated with the Chawosaurian public and though the public was uncomfortable with their own government supporting a foreign candidate for President, the public was moved by the endorsement as compassionate.

## Aftermath and Analysis

Leader of the Opposition Charles Muskie endorsed Donald Trump for reelection, but Muskie's endorsement caused an ideological rift between liberals and conservatives in the anti-Parkerian resistance. Anti-Parker Liberals believed Muskie's support for Trump would conjure up memories of the unbeneficial role of Trump in the anti-communists' defeat to Shang Jong Parker and his Communist Party in the 2019 Chawosaurian elections, while conservatives were split over Muskie's endorsement, some supported the endorsement, other conservatives were unsure if the endorsement was electorally safe for Muskie when he runs against the incumbent Parker in the 2029 Chawosaurian direct election.

Trump was defeated by Joe Biden, thus being blocked from a second term.

## Political Impact

Shang Parker's endorsement of Biden shot his approval ratings to 96% among the public, and the anti-communist opposition to Parker felt terrified by the endorsement because Trump was indirectly responsible for the anti-communists' loss in the 2019 elections, and don't want to face the conjuring of these memories, so most of the opposition supported Parker's endorsement over Muskie's endorsement of Trump, distancing themselves from their own leader of the opposition.

If Biden wins the presidency in the U.S., it would solidify Parker's position in 2020, but if Biden ends up losing, Parker will face embarrassment in the eyes of the public much he did when the Soviet Union crumbled in 1991, but opponents of Parker understand that even if Parker was embarrassed by Biden's loss to Trump, it may not hurt Parker at all in the 2024 midterms and his reelection bid in 2029, because when Parker (as Prime Minister) lost the Soviet Union in 1991, it was a major blow to Parker that he was widely seen as a dead-on-arrival candidate in the 1995 Chawosaurian legislative elections, only to come out of the 1995 elections as an unexpected winner.

Shang Parker was vindicated by Biden's victory, successfully avoiding a foreign policy embarrassment that would threaten his political career.

Shang Parker's sole 2029 opponent, Charles Muskie, backed off from his plans to run to unseat Parker himself in the 2029 Chawosaurian direct election. Muskie feared his past support for Trump could come back to haunt him in 2029 because of Trump's incitement of the 2021 siege of the United States Capitol in an effort to overthrow the results of the 2020 United States presidential election and strip Joe Biden of his mantle as the incoming President of the United States, so Muskie backed away from his plans to run against Shang Parker, thus making Parker the first national incumbent to run uncontested for another term for national office since Timothy Max Roosevelt from when he ran for his 6th and final term as Speaker of the Chawopolis Palace in the 1969 Chawosaurian legislative elections.

## The End of Chawosauria Support for Joe Biden

On June 17, 2021, the Supreme Court of the Empire of Chawosauria unanimously ruled against the resolution to endorse Biden for President of the United States, declaring the endorsement as unconstitutional, unlawful, and unpermitted. The Supreme Court's ruling, in effect, invalidates the resolution, and it has no longer been law ever since.

## Criminal Investigations

> *Main article: 2022-ongoing Criminal Investigations into the Chawosaurian Imperial Government's Activities into the 2020 U.S. Elections*
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In February 2022, criminal investigations were launched against the Chawosaurian imperial government for their activities into the 2020 U.S. elections. allegations of electoral interference, and unlawful intervention.

Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker and Prime Minister Jezebel Isela Boleslaus are under investigation for his leading of passage of the resolution to endorse Joe Biden. Former Supreme Leader Ekewaka Mikala Kalawai'a has been named by investigators and prosecutors for his appearance in the address to support Biden. Chawosaurian Trump supporters criticized the Parker administration and the 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government for breeching "neutrality standards" of Chawosaurian law when it comes to foreign elections and demanded that they be prosecuted. Chawosaurian Trump supporters called for the impeachment of Shang Jong Parker, but with a Communist Party supermajority in the Chawopolis Palace, as well as a newly established Socialist Coalition between the Chawosaurian Communist Party and the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party taking up 99% of seats in the imperial legislature, impeachment is solidly unlikely, and there are great hurtles of prosecuting an incumbent Supreme Leader, hurtles that will be eliminated by the pending Imperial Constitution of the Empire of Chawosauria, but widely feared that the socialist party-led government could be encouraged by these investigations to restore these hurtles for partisan advantages, resulting in these inquiries to be wanting to be "cautious and slowed-down" on prosecuting Parker to avoid these hurtles from being preserved.

## See also

* Chawosauria in the 2020 United States Presidential Election
* 2020 United States presidential election in Chawosaurian America
* COVID-19 Cases in Chawosauria
* War on Coronavirus
* Civil Rights Act of 2020