Battle of the Wives

### Cause

Concern amongst the Chawosaurian Left that they could lose the 2024 Chawosaurian elections

### Objective

Turn the tide of the 2024 Chawosaurian elections

### Result

Ongoing

During the 2024 Chawosaurian elections, the **Battle of the Wives** is a political strategy of the Chawosaurian Left to encourage Kim Chae-Won (wife of Shang Jong Parker) and Jeanette Andrea MacAlasdair (wife of Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII) to travel to the campaign trail and speak on behalf of Chawosaurian Communist Party and occasionally Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party (in case of a hung parliament) candidates in an attempt to charm Chawosaurian voters with their personalities, their lack of political office, and their personal popularities amongst the Chawosaurian public compared to their husbands, though the MacAlasdairs are widely popular, both Jeanette and Jonathan MacAlasdair.

The Chawosaurian Left (particularly the Chawosaurian Communist Party) fear that they could lose the 2024 Chawosaurian elections due to issues such as the Chawo-Uralic War, Chawosaurian anger over 2010s and 2020s technology and popular culture, and Chawosaurian exhaustion over 2020s politics. Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker who for years since the mid-1990s has enjoyed a strong popularity amongst the Chawosaurian public, has fallen out of favor due to his handling of the Ural Wall Crisis, and his perceived inaction and absence over the global chaos that has agonized Chawosaurians since the COVID-19 pandemic. To muddy the waters, the idea of letting the spouses of Parker and MacAlasdair speak for vulnerable candidates has been discussed and put into action.

## Background

Wives of men who run for office are traditionally a valuable political asset, spouses of candidates make the candidates themselves more human and relatable to the public, however women have ran for office before and are capable of getting elected equal to their male counterparts, and their husbands do play a roll as well.

## Role of Empress Kim Chae-Won

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The Empress of the Empire of Chawosauria, Kim Chae-Won, has stumped for Communist Party candidates, where she promoted these candidates and defended her husband Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker, which earns her boos, which is not directed at her but at her husband because while Chae-Won enjoys an approval rating of 87%, her husband suffers an approval rating of 24% against 70% disapprove by October 2023.

Unlike her widely unpopular husband, Kim Chae-Won receives a very warm grace from the Chawosaurian people, people often chant "Chae-Won for Supreme Leader" or "Chae-Won 2029" to show excitement for her presence. When visiting a bar to greet Chawosaurians, one Chawosaurian woman told Chae-Won "you'd make a better Supreme Leader than your husband" with Chae-Won taking it as a compliment. Chae-Won's advisers told her that she cannot defend her husband on the campaign trial and showed her her husband's approval ratings, which have been terribly low consistently since mid-2023. The Empress was also showed internal polling that if she ran against her husband in the 2029 election, Chae-Won would defeat Shang Jong Parker in a landslide.

## Communist Party: Jeanette Andrea MacAlasdair

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The wife of interim and former Prime Minister Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII: Professor Jeanette Andrea MacAlasdair, was tasked by the Chawosaurian Communist Party to campaign for Communists all over the 2024 midterm elections. The strategy is to get the wife of a Prime Minister to charm voters, and it has considerable to respectable success. Jeanette MacAlasdair is met with respect, excitement for her presence, and it led to boost in voter morale.

MacAlasdair, in all of her speeches, speaks highly of the candidates she is tasked to support, she was able to charm away the critics of these candidates without going on the attack, and successfully, she made these Communist candidates personally relatable, leading to the increased chances of their victory.

Chawosaurian voters were impressed by MacAlasdair's charm, likeability, her sense of humor, and speaking discipline, which is actually better than Wendell Rawlings Burton's speaking discipline, and MacAlasdair is so likable that she was selected to succeed her husband to lead the Communist Party in the 2029 Chawosaurian legislative elections, making Jeanette MacAlasdair a threat to the Burton Coalition and the 2020-2029 Chawosaurian Opposition, making the anti-communists uncomfortable with the thought of running against her, in fact, opinion polling showed Chawosaurians would not take kindly to political attacks on Jeanette MacAlasdair, making the idea of running against her a scary thing for anti-communists.

## Burton Coalition: Dorothy Wallace Burton

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Having in common with Jeanette Andrea MacAlasdair, a woman of Scottish and Irish descent, and is the wife of a prime ministerial candidate, Dorothy Elizabeth Wallace Burton seeks to charm voters for Wendell Rawlings Burton and the Burton Coalition.

But unfortunately for anti-communists, however, Dorothy Burton is not as successful as Jeanette MacAlasdair in terms of likability and trust. Burton is seen widely as condescending, conniving, cringe, and unaware. When she stumps for candidates, Dorothy often looks arrogant, uncaring, and not very interested in the election which matters to the local Chawosaurian community. Conservative candidates often complain to Wendell Burton about his wife, giving Wendell nightmares of his mother when she cost his father his reelection bid in 1965.

### *"Time to cut government spending and beef up military spending!"*

At a campaign rally for the Burton Coalition on October 23, 2023, in Voss, Dorothy, promoting a conservative candidate, electrified the crowd with her presence and promotion of the candidate, but then confused the crowd a little bit with her suggestion to cut government spending while still beefing up defense spending, saying precisely: "He [the conservative candidate she's promoting] understands that government spending is too damn out of control and that he knows that it's time to cut government spending and beef up military spending!" and the crowd was left confused and dumbfounded, the reason being was because defense spending is part of government spending, militaries around the world are funded by governments through taxes, because of this fact, Dorothy's suggestion to cut government spending but increase military spending came across as contradictory and mind-flustering in the eyes of both the media and the public in Chawosauria. Another reason Dorothy faced backlash was because she called for "beefing up defense spending" when Chawosauria was already fighting the Chawo-Uralic War since 2021, costing her husband political support amongst the Chawosaurian anti-war movement.

The speech was recorded by news crews and clips of Dorothy Burton saying it was time to "cut government spending and beef up military spending" was seen by billions of Chawosaurians across Chawosauria from television to social media, and the quote by Dorothy about spending was universally mocked as contradictory, uneducated, unaware, and dumbfounding.

Within days after this, Dorothy Burton received widespread mockery by the public. Wendell Burton ordered Dorothy to withdrawal from the campaign, and the Burton Coalition had to defend and excuse the remarks, the Conservative Party of Chawosauria got more defensive, saying "government spending must be cut" but fall short of suggesting would that mean the military be cut of its government funds, the Chawosaurian Revolutionary Party stated that Dorothy's statements were "misguided" and that she "had her facts wrong" and the Chawosaurian media begin to compare Dorothy Burton to Sarah Palin, when she undermined John McCain's electability in the 2008 U.S. presidential election.

On October 28, 2023 in a face time interview with EOCBC News, Wendell Burton attempted to defend his wife's gaffe, suggesting that she was talking about Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker's unprecedented expansion of bureaucracy during the 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government, and how it expanded taxes on Chawosaurians, partly contributing to the Parkerian Stagnation, however, Wendell struggled to defend Dorothy's call to beef up defense spending, Wendell was forced to criticize his own wife's defense spending policy, saying: "it was very misguided of her to call for such spending when government is already spending too much".

## See also

* Yaroslav Hunka Affect
* Chawo-Ukraine Airlift Disaster
* Chawosauria in the 2020 United States Presidential Election
* Chawosauria in the 2024 United States Presidential Election
* 2022 United States elections
* Chawosauria and Donald Trump