2040 Presidential Election

Previous Election: 2036 | Next Election: 2044

The **2040 United States presidential election** was the 64th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 2040. The Republican ticket of General Ted Kennedy and Senator of Nebraska BT2 defeated the Democratic ticket of Governor Wild Shrimp48 and Former Senator Double A. This was the first election in history in which the incumbent party won reelection with another candidate than the incumbent president. This was also the first election in history in which the winner was the Vice-President to the incumbent president. The election also saw the highest voter turnout since 2032.

The election saw completely noncompetitive primaries, as almost all parties had no challengers to their nominees, and the Republican Primary was easily won by Ted Kennedy over "joke candidate" Larry Elder after being endorsed by popular incumbent Republican President Donald Trump, whom exit polls revealed he had a net 30% approval, the most for any president since Ronald Reagan. Central issues of the election included growth of the economy; growing bitterness, division, and polarization among the electorate; the recent bans on transgender surgery for children and late term abortions; and the future of immigration policy.

As a result of a large number of ballots, some swing states saw delays in vote counting and reporting; this led to major news outlets delaying their projection of Kennedy and BT2 as the president-elect and vice president-elect until the morning of November 9, almost two days after the election.

Before, during, and after Election Day, Shrimp and numerous Democrats attempted to subvert the election and overturn the results, alleging widespread voter fraud & manipulation and trying to influence the vote counting process. The Shrimp campaign forced the Republican's hands in revealing its activities pertaining to the election, despite the Shrimp Campaigns failure to do so itself. It threatened members of the party for having opposing views. The shrimp campaign itself engaged in illegal activities to receive votes; however action has failed to take place with this, and debate has opened up as to whether votes gotten through illegal means should count. The Department of Unbiased Security and officials within it found no evidence of the claims of widespread fraud or manipulation in the election's reported audit (As a side note, there was fraud, however the claim was oriented around the audited results by the Department of Unbiased Security). The Shrimp campaign and its allies, including Democratic members of Congress, continued to engage in numerous attempts to overturn the results of the election by filing lawsuits in several states (all of which were withdrawn or dismissed), spreading conspiracy theories alleging fraud, pressuring Republican state election officials and legislators to change results, pressuring the Department of Unbiased Security to declare the election "corrupt" and intervene, This culminated in a mob of Shrimp supporters rioting across the United States, and even flaunts of secession, for which President Trump cracked down upon severely. Several Days after Kennedy's victory was declared and the rioting broke out, Shrimp acknowledged the incoming administration in a speech posted on his News Broadcast, JP1.

The election results in each state and the District of Columbia were certified by December 9. The presidential electors formally cast their votes for president and vice president on December 14, and their votes were officially counted by Congress from January 6, 2041. Kennedy and BT2 were inaugurated on January 20, 2041.