2028 Presidential Election

The 61st Presidential Election was held on November 7th, 2028. Incumbent President Ron DeSantis was extremely popular mainly because the

### Popular Vote

50.4% 45.2%

American economy was booming and the Recession of 2023 and the Panic of 2022 were over early on in the DeSantis's presidency. DeSantis had also helped end the Russo-Ukraine War during the Treaty of D.C which ended the war in a draw between Russia and Ukraine. However, military build ups in Alaska, Korea, Ukraine, the Baltic States, Finland, and Taiwan. World War Three tensions were still extremely high and President DeSantis wasn't defusing tensions at all. In the more controversial part of his presidency was his Immigration Summit with Mexico's President in Yama, Arizona. And the Reconstruction of the Mexican American Border and the Illegal Immigrant Pullout.

**Republican Convention**

During the Republican National Convention about 94.3% of Republicans supported DeSantis, 5.2% were unsure or uninvolved, and the rest refused to support DeSantis. Only one candidate opposed DeSantis and ran against him and that was former Vice President Mike Pence. Pence received 11.4% while DeSantis received 86.6%, easily winning the nomination. For Vice President, Jim Jordan had claimed he was stepping down in 2028 so he could run for the US Senate. Moderate Republicans rushed to support former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan for Vice President. Hogan ran against Kentucky Senator Rand Paul and New York Attorney General Ivanka Trump and narrowly won the nomination with 50.1%. So the Republicans chose Hogan as the Vice President nominee which DeSantis would accept. This would allow Maryland to vote Republican because of Hogan's popularity there.

**Democratic Convention**

The Democratic Convention was a mad house with the three major candidates being former California Governor Gavin Newsom, former Vice President Kamala Harris, and Congresswomen Alexandria Ocie Cortez (AOC). Cortez had support from former Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and far-left Socialists while Newsom and Harris battled for the rest of the Democratic Party. This convention had the most endorsements in US history with former President Barack Obama, former President Joe Biden, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and Georgia Senator Stacy Abrams supporting Gavin Newsom while NYC Mayor Eric Adams, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, NBC Host Chris Cuomo, Massachusetts Senator Joe Kennedy, and former Massachusetts Senator John Kerry supported AOC. Only Hilary Clinton and Bill Clinton supported Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris dropped out giving nearly all of her supporters and electors to Newsom. Hillary Clinton endorsed a second time for Newsom while Bill Clinton stayed quiet. Newsom won the convention against AOC and chose Georgia Senator Stacy Abrams as his running mate, completing the Democratic Convention.

**Main Issues**

The main campaign issues were the buildup for WW3. Russia, China, Belarus, North Korea, and Cuba were teaming up against the allies with the assistance of Pakistan and Iran. Though President DeSantis's buildup and diplomatic policies were popular, most Americans didn't want to go to war. The campaign issues increased when students of Bear Valley School in Virginia started protests to ban all plastics in the state of Virginia. When Virginia Governor Glenn Younkin vetoed the bill. Protests started to ban plastic in not just Virginia but all of America. President DeSantis was strongly against it as was most of America while Gavin Newsom supported it. Larry Hogan refused to give comments on the issue, making several Republican leaders doubt he could for fill his duties as Vice President. The campaign issues expanded even more when Newsom said America should tear down the wall between the US and Mexico. This was a close 50/50 split between Americans and an extremely controversial decision. By the end of the day DeSantis won 2/3 of the debates while Newsom won one of the debates and Stacy Abrams won the Vice Presidential debate.

**Election Results**

When the election day had come, Ron DeSantis won receiving 328 electoral votes and 50.4% of the popular vote. While Gavin Newsom finished second with 45..2% of the popular vote. Ron DeSantis was the first President to win reelection since Barack Obama in 2012. And Larry Hogan was the first Vice Presidential candidate to campaign with a sitting President since LBJ and Hubert Humphry in 1964. DeSantis was also the first President since George W. Bush in 2004 to win more electoral votes and a bigger popular vote percentage in the second election then the first election. Just a few months after DeSantis was inaugurated, WW3 would start. It would end by 2032. It would be on January 7th 2029 that Gavin Newsom admitted DeSantis won, ending the election of 2028. Larry Hogan became the 51st Vice President in American History.