Tom Kirkman

Braunau am Inn, Austria

Democratic (2018 - present)

**Tom Kirkman** was an American politician who served as president of the United States, following his fraudulent "victory" in the season 31 presidential election. He was one of three MEC presidents to have been elected to nonconsecutive terms. Kirkman served as the 16th president of the United States of America and has served as the 17th, 27th and 32nd vice president of the United States, making him the longest-serving vice president in MEC history.

Tom Kirman was born on the 20th April, 1978 in Braunau am Inn, Austria . He attended Fischlhalm High School School, and was noted for displaying signs of narcissism and sociopathy. He then attended Gila Ridge High School, and achieved a 3.9 GPA, and was then accepted into the University of American Samoa School of Law, where he began his legal career.

Kirkman worked at multiple different law firms in Arizona, and started a partnership firm with a friend in Phoenix.

Kirkman departed from his legal career to enter politics, and declared a bid for District Two House, while also becoming one of President Ethan Fitzgerald's most vocal supporters. Following his election as District Two Representative, Kirkman became a divisive figure for his narcissistic and manipulative methods of achieving what success. Through fraud and questionable dealings with corrupt members of the Democratic party leadership, Kirkman climbed up the party's ranks, eventually becoming DNC Chairman. His Chairmanship was marred by corruption, nepotism, and cronyism, which led to lackluster results for the party in Congressional elections.

He ran for President in Season 14 while retaining his position as DNC chairman, despite the obvious conflict of interest this represented. With his popularity greatly diminished, Kirkman was unable to secure the party nomination and suspended his campaign, having been Defeated by Senator Sam Martinez. Following his defeat, he agreed to be the Vice Presidential candidate for Republican Trey Cranfield in the highly contentious Season 15 Presidential Election. This election was tainted by a stream of corruption and voter fraud, as a result, the Cranfield-Kirkman ticket claimed victory in the election, making Kirkman the usurper Vice President of the United States.

Three days into Cranfield's term, Kirkman orchestrated a coup d'etat and claimed the presidency for himself. His term was dominated by foreign affairs and international crises, none of which were properly addressed. Despite his tumultuous reign, Kirman retained power, as he was re-elected to the Presidency in Season 16, defeating Democrat Mayowa Olabode in a sham election.

Following Kirkman's stint in power, he retired from politics and took up a role of the kingmaker moderator of the community before giving himself the speakership of the House of Representatives. Kirkman has been in and out of multiple political offices, including House and Senate. In Season 24, he joined former President Adam Evans' ticket as his running mate and once again served as Vice President following Evans' forceful seizure of power victory over Brett Patrick. It is widely held by historians that Kirkman's prior role as chief kingmaker moderator guaranteed an Evans victory.

Kirkman took over as Governor of Fremont in January of 2020 following the ouster of Governor Martinez. His Governorship was widely unremarkable and he left the position to run as former President Ethan Fitzgerald's running mate in the Season 29 election, and once again usurped power following Fitzgerald's coronation.

Kirkman was re-elected to the position by the United States Senate in a highly questionable vote following the tied election in Season 30.

## Early MEC Career

Kirkman first joined MEC in November of 2017 and ran as an independent candidate for District One House, after being defeated by incumbent Democrat Claudio Aleman (by an estimated margin of 65%-35%), Kirkman joined the Democratic Party.

After changing his registration to the Democrats, Kirkman joined the Benjamin Asher for President Campaign in the Season 11 Presidential Election. Kirkman was often a critic of then-President Ethan Fitzgerald. Kirkman was very public with his opinions on the Fitzgerald administration and stumped for Asher many times. But, as the campaign progressed Kirkman became disillusioned with the campaign and Asher himself. Kirkman, his friend and co-campaign staffer Rafael Munguia made the joint decision to leave the Asher Campaign.

Following leaving the Asher Campaign, Kirkman was recruited to be the Campaign Manager for the Fitzgerald Campaign. President Fitzgerald then went on to win the Democratic Primary and defeated Asher. The following General Election Campaign was close and hard fought. Despite the campaign's hard work, Fitzgerald was narrowly defeated by popular Speaker and Republican nominee Jon S. Überfeld.

Kirkman then announced his candidacy for District Two House and won the Democratic Primary defeating future President Jayanth Karaturi and future UN Ambassador Gaming Is Life. After securing the nomination, Kirkman was to face Republican JackM Vlogs. The race was tight between Vlogs and Kirkman, but right toward the end of the campaign, Dank Underwood released screenshots of Kirkman saying vulgar things about the community and prominent people within it. Kirkman proclaimed innocence and used his connection to DNC Chairman Aleman, and President Uberfeld to quash the scandal, and the screenshot was deemed fake, despite lacking a proper and transparent review. Kirkman went on to defeat Vlogs and Tulius in the General Election, with exactly 50% of the vote.

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## District 2 Representative

After his election as District 2 Representative, Kirkman ran for Majority Leader of the House of Representatives and was elected by his Democratic colleagues through coercion and intimidation.

In spite his support of Fitzgerald in the election, Kirkman saw it as advantageous to pass President Uberfeld's signature healthcare policy (Ubercare, and formed an alliance with Republican Senator Fernando Diaz. Kirkman did his best to work on the budget at the time, and was proud to help deliver a budget deficit for the American people.

Kirkman then made the shock announcement that he would not be running for re-election to the house, and stated that he wanted to move on to other things, but as the campaign progressed Kirkman backtracked his comments, and announced that he would actually run for re-election.

Not long after, he defeated Tom Kirkman and was elected a second term (by approximately 55%-45%). In his second term, Kirkman worked with former President, and now Senator Fitzgerald, Representative Aleman, Representative Munguia and Senator Diaz to form a criminal cabal.

Martinez also partnered with Diaz to write the Adopted Child Act (ACA), allowing LGBTQ+ couples across the nation to adopt children (provided they adhered to the other requirements and laws regarding adoption). In his early second term, Kirkman made the decision to run for Chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

## Season 14 Presidential Campaign

Kirkman announced his candidacy for President of the United States of America in late-March of 2018. Kirkman was seeking the Democratic nomination for the Season Fourteen Presidential election, from the outset, Kirkman was the early front-runner and led consistently in polls. A few days after announcing his candidacy, he made the early announcement that Representative Ivor M would be his running-mate, and the Kirkman/Mestrovic or, Tom/Ivor ticket was formed.

As the primary progressed, Kirkman continued his vigorous campaign across the nation to earn the support of Democrats for the Presidency. At late March, Kirkman's principle rival was Senator Oran Mulcahy from Florida, and the two battled hard to gather votes from Democrats. Kirkman's campaign used secret smear campaigns and compromised the integrity of elected officials, and it looked as if Kirkman was on track for the nomination.

The Mulcahy campaign, seeing the writing on the wall, decided to drop out of the race, in hopes that a new candidate with more appeal could step up to challenge Kirkman. Shortly after, Senator Dank Underwood announced his candidacy for President, with Mulcahy as his running mate. At first, the new ticket looked promising, but again, questionable electioneering tactics led Kirman to usurp power. Underwood, like Mulcahy, decided to suspend his campaign.

Finally, after rumblings for a few days, Senator and DNC Chairman Sam Martinez announced his candidacy with Representative Michael Walker as his running-mate, and the race began to heat up again. Despite this, Kirkman continued his questionable election tactics and backroom dealing with officials.

On primary night, Vice Chairman Terrell McCann Jr announced that Sam Martinez had won the nomination by one vote, defeating Kirkman. Immediately afterwards, Kirkman poisoned the well with unfounded allegations of foul-play and rigging accusations were levelled at McCann; despite McCann providing a link of live results and announcing the results verbally. A day or so after the election, the MEC Board of Directors, largely comprised by Kirkman loyalists, stepped in and declared that the election was fraudulent, and that a redo was in order.

By this point, the Democrats were divided and it seems that the chances of either Mr. Martinez or Mr. Kirkman getting to the White House were very slim. Despite once again losing the redo primary by a larger landslide than the first time, Kirkman declined to endorse or support the Martinez ticket, leaving Martinez as the sole candidate and eventual nominee.

Martinez went on to lose the Season 14 election to A Proud Georgian in one of the biggest landslides in MEC history, following Kirkman's efforts to sabotage the Democrats' chances in the election.

## Secretary of State

Following Kirkman's failed Presidential bid, he announced his candidacy for his old House seat in District Two, and was up against Republican candidate Roman Thaddeus. The election, which Kirkman expected to win easily, turned out to be a slog and one of the closet races of the election cycle. On election night, the race was a tie between Kirkman and Thaddeus, with both candidates proceeding to a run-off election later that week.

 Samuel Martinez (D)
 Roman Thaddeus (R)

While preparing to campaign for the run-off, Kirkman got a phone call from White House Chief of Staff, Fernando Diaz, asking him if he would serve as Secretary of State in the Georgian administration, a reward for having handed the president an easy victory. Kirkman ended his house campaign and accepted the nomination for Secretary of State.

After a fairly-long and questionable nomination process, Kirkman was confirmed and sworn in as the Secretary of State. As the Chief Diplomat of the United States, Kirkman embarked on many foreign trips and had summits with various world leaders.

Following President Georgian's resignation from the Presidency, then Vice President and incoming President Jayanth Karaturi was coerced by Kirkman to retain his position as Secretary of State. Under the Karuturi administration, Kirkman and Secretary of Defense Trey Cranfield authored many Executive Orders and International treaties; notably a nuclear treaty with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Kirkman was widely regarded as a lackluster Secretary.

## 17th Vice President of the United States

In the run-up to the Season Fifteen Presidential election, there were widespread rumors that Defense Secretary Trey Cranfield was planning a run for the Republican nomination for President of the United States. This speculation was heightened when incumbent President Jayanth Karuturi made it clear that he would not seek election to the Presidency, opening the doors for Cranfield.

While working with each other in the cabinet, Kirkman and Cranfield had developed a mutually beneficial pact Cranfield, recognizing this, asked Kirkman to be his running-mate in the Season 15 Presidential election. Kirkman accepted the offer.

Despite being a registered Democrat, Kirkman was the vice presidential candidate on the Republican ticket for the Presidency, which rightly suggested that Kirkman lacked any loyalties but to himself. Cranfield had basically locked up the GOP nomination for President following his announcement speech, and immediately shifted focus to the general election campaign.

The Democratic front-runner and presumptive nominee was Kirkman's old running-mate from Season 14, Ivor Mestrovic. At the beginning of the campaign, Mestrovic was the clear front-runner and in most opinion polls he held significant leads over Cranfield and Kirkman

As the campaign continued, Mestrovic gained momentum and began climbing in the polls. By election day, polls still had Mestrovic in the clear lead.

Following questionable handling of ballots and impartiality by the MEC Moderator Board, Trey Cranfield was declared 15th President of the United States, allegedly defeating Ivor M by a mere three votes, and carrying 279 of the electoral college votes.

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Trey Cranfield and Tom Kirkman were sworn in as President and Vice President of the United States, respectively, on June 30th 2018.

From the outset, Cranfield's presidency was mired in scandal and division. Shortly after Cranfield's inauguration, the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine and Cranfield took a hard-line approach that nearly caused a World War with Russia, causing Cranfield to have high unpopularity from the beginning of his term.

Not long after, the Republic of India effectively began a trade war with the United States, and Cranfield once again took a hard-line approach that deepened the crisis. The President's approach was becoming more and more unpopular among the American people and President Cranfield succumb to pressure on the 3rd of July 2018 and resigned the Presidency of the United States of America. It is widely held by historians that Kirkman purposefully provided Cranfield with unsound advice while touting his experience as Secretary of State, in hopes of derailing Cranfield's presidency in what would become a bloodless coup.

## 16th President of the United States

After deposing Cranfield, Kirkman was sworn in as President of the United States by Senator Terrell McCann on July 4th, 2018.

Having deposed Cranfield, President Kirkman negotiated unfavorable terms with India and secured a deal with the Indian Prime Minister, Nardendra Modi, in which the Indians would back down on their tariffs and sanctions on the United States, in return for the U.S. cutting foreign aid to Pakistan and helping secure Indian entrance into the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the deal was signed the following day.

Following this deal, Kirkman's image was propped up to give the illusion of stability.

Not long after the supposed resolution of the Indian crisis, Kirkman announced that Senator Ryan Servis would be nominated to be the next Vice President of the United States. Servis sailed through confirmation in both the House and Senate, and was sworn in as the 18th Vice President of the United States.

Kirkman's first term was significantly dominated by international events that demanded the attention of the President and much of his administration. Kirkman and his Secretary of State, Ethan Fitzgerald, were at the helm of many international crisis', including The Indian Trade War Crisis, The Atlanta Airport Hacking, The Iranian Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

It was agreed by most that Kirkman's first term was mainly dominated by foreign policy and international events.

As the Season Sixteen Presidential election drew closer, he announced his candidacy for the Presidency in early-July, as a Democrat.

Kirkman was not elected to the Presidency or Vice Presidency, for that matter, and many Democrats still harbored mistrust over kirkman due to his presence on the Republican ticket in Season 15, and as such faced a strong primary challenge in Representative Mayowa Olabode. To Kirkman, it became increasingly obvious that Olabode was the favorite to win the nomination.

Kirkman, not willing to accept his nomination defeat in Season 14 , made the predictable announcement that he was leaving the Democrat party and was forming the Liberal Democratic party of America in a clear effort to cheat the primary system and immediately move on into the general.

This announcement, among other factors, had left Kirkman's approval below water and it was clear he was going to lose re-election. Early polls had Kirkman trailing Olabode by as much as 30% nationally and by 15% in most swing states.

Through sustained mudslinging and backroom dealings with election moderators, a week out from the election, Kirkman had closed the gap to around 8%.

In a shock crisis, Iran blockaded the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial shipping route for American oil and various other goods. Gas prices began to soar, and Kirkman's numbers started to slump, devastating his chances of re-election. Despite this, the President forged a favorable outcome by the event's moderator was somehow able to get a blockade runner ship through the Iranian defenses, this followed by further American breaches of the blockade ended the effectiveness of the Iranian blockade, and they backed down shortly after. It is widely held by historians that this move was an attempt by moderators to improve the image of Tom Kirkman.

As election day drew closer, the polls began to close to a narrow 2-3% lead for Olabode, and some even showing a small lead for Kirkman. In the final campaign blitz, Kirkman and his surrogates found ways to skirt election registration rules and influence the election moderators.

On election night, it was clear from the outset that Kirkman was over-preforming expectations and was running up big margins in states he clearly shouldn't have. As more results came in, the numbers for Olabode were looking grimmer by the hour and once Florida was called for Kirkman, Olabode conceded the election to the President.

According to unreliable estimates, Kirkman is said to have defeated Olabode 45 votes to 40 and carried nearly 50% of the popular vote, giving him 295 electoral votes. This, of course, would be the second election to have been effectively a sham election.

 Infinite Kid (L)

On Saturday the 11th of August, 2018, Tom Kirkman was sworn-in as President of the United States of

America, for a full term.