Real Life Figures in Aprils In Abandon Universe

**Al Gore**

**Notable differences:**

* Won the election of 2000
* Served two largely unpopular terms which oversaw 9/11, the Saudi-American war, the rise of Al-Wartha, a war in Afghanistan, and the 2008 financial crash

**John McCain**

**Notable differences:**

* Won the 2004 Republican primaries
* Challenged Al Gore in the 2004 general election

**Joe Lieberman**

**Notable differences:**

* Served as Al Gore’s VP
* Won the 2008 Democratic primaries
* Ran against Dick Cheney in the 2008 general election

**Mike Gravel**

**Notable differences:**

* Received a large share of the vote in the 2008 Democratic primaries as a progressive challenger
* Defected from the party and ran a highly successful third-party campaign with the Greens, garnering ~9% of the vote

**Dick Cheney**

**Notable differences:**

* Won the 2008 Republican primaries
* Won the election of 2008 on a strong domestic security platform
* Further entrenched America in the wars overseas and responded to the failing economy with massive deregulation
* Won the 2012 election by a single electoral vote despite losing the popular vote
* Oversaw numerous scandals and the rise of intense labor unrest

**Louis Farrakhan**

**Notable differences:**

* Died in a car crash in 2009, provoking civil unrest and conspiracy theories that he was assassinated

**Hillary Clinton**

**Notable differences:**

* Won the 2012 Democratic primaries
* Challenged Dick Cheney in the 2012 general election and won the popular vote by a large margin

**Richard Trumka**

**Notable differences:**

* Became increasingly radical due to his correspondence with Liam Sutton
* Oversaw the AFL-CIO’s transition into a leftist organization
* Participated in the Fifth International
* Elected chairman of the American Labor Congress
* Ousted by Liam Sutton in 2018
* Currently in hiding with socialist militants in Quebec

**Bernie Sanders**

**Notable differences:**

* Participated in the Fifth International
* Won the majority of pledged delegates in the 2016 Democratic primaries despite losing on the final ballot
* Challenged Andrew Cuomo for the office of interim president of the NYPG as the reformed Green Party’s nominee
* Currently challenging Cuomo a second time in the PGUSA’s upcoming elections

**Mitt Romney**

**Notable differences:**

* Won the 2016 Republican primaries
* Ran against Eric Holder in the 2016 general election

**Eric Holder**

**Notable differences:**

* Won the contentious 2016 presidential election
* Oversaw the beginning of the Second American Civil War and the collapse of the US into a rump state
* Infamously dissolved Congress
* Was assassinated on July 4th, 2020

**Mark DeSaulnier**

**Notable differences:**

* Served as Holder’s VP
* Sworn in as president after Holder’s assassination
* Presided over the rump state’s surrender to the NYPG

**Rick Perry**

**Notable differences:**

* Threatened to introduce articles of secession to the Texas state legislature if Holder was sworn in
* Followed through on his threat, causing the Secession Crisis of 2017

**Gloria la Riva**

**Notable differences:**

* Ran as a perennial candidate for the Workers World Party
* Participated in the Fifth International
* Led the failed revolution in the Bay Area during the February Revolt
* Elected leader of the Vanguard Caucus in the American Labor Congress

**Michael Parenti**

**Notable differences:**

* Participated in the Fifth International
* Appointed Secretary of Information of the Socialist People’s Republic of Liberated North America

**Andrew Cuomo**

**Notable differences:**

* Elected interim president of the NYPG
* Currently president of the PGUSA

**Nancy Pelosi**

**Notable differences:**

* Led impeachment proceedings against Dick Cheney
* Threatened to impeach Eric Holder over destructive bombing campaigns against the AWA
* Elected interim president of the LAPG **Elián Gonzáles** **Notable differences:**
	+ Drowned en route to the United States in 1999