2020 Presidential Election Season 34

The **Season 34 Presidential Election** took place on December 4th, 2020. Incumbent President Roman Thaddeus was term-limited, after winning a second term on October 9th. This was the Last Presidential Election, as the United States and MEC officially surrendered 3 weeks later to the Anarchist Revolution.

Governor Ethan Davis won the republican nomination while Senator Mark Kennedy Gallagher won the democratic nomination.

Gov Davis dropped out citing personal reasons and gave all his delegates to Gov Mish Fox

The December 2020 House Elections are also happening concurrently.

Mark Kennedy Gallagher went on to win this election, winning 335 electoral votes by managing to flip 13 states and 3/4 Maine electoral votes to the democrats, undoing the Thaddeus electoral college majority for Governor Fox, who still overperformed expectations and finished on 213 electoral votes.

Gallagher flipped the states of Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, the Pacific Islands, Virginia and Wisconsin.

Fox flipped Alaska, Maine's 2nd congressional district and Montana from the Libertarians.

This was the first time since Season 22 and Season 25 in which Ohio and Florida voted for the Democrat respectively.

This was the first election since Season 29 in which Colorado voted for the Democrat.

Iowa also continues its streak voting for the winner since Season 14

 Republican Party

**Nominee**

* Gov. Mish Fox (R-ID)

**Lost in Primaries**

* Fmr. Sen. Dave Schneier (R-FL)
* Rep. Gamingislife (R-NY)

**Withdrew**

* Sen. Logan Balsan (R-NY)
* Fmr. Jacques Sampson (XLSX-AK) (may his beautiful body rest in peace)
* Gov. Ethan Davis (R-MI) *former apparent nominee*

**Declined**

* Vice President Andrew Dominguez (R-AZ)
* Sen. John Lampros (R-GA)
* Former Sen. Majority Leader Matthew Volfson (R-MA)

* Sec. Nate Brown (R-NC), Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee

## Democratic Party

**Nominee**

* Sen. Minority Leader Mark K. Gallagher (FLP/D-MI)

**Lost in Primary**

* Sen. Brett Patrick (D-TX)

**Withdrawn**

* Sen. Raging Potato (D-WA) of Fremont

**Declined**

* Governor Sean Washington (D-GA). Ran as an Independent instead
* Governor Wyatt DiChristopher (D-NY)

## Independent Candidates

**Declared**

* None

**Withdrawn**

* Former President Easton Wilkins (I-MI)
* Governor Sean Washington (D-GA)
* Governor Mish Fox (R-ID), Withdrew to accept republican vice presidential nomination

**Declined**

* Senator Rick Hammond (I-NM)
* Justice Sam Martinez (I-CA)

## Other Parties

* Harvey Long, Libertarian Nominee in Season 32 and 33

## Primary Campaign

### Democratic

On the 11th of November 2020, Senator Mark Gallagher announced his decision to run for the office of the president of the united states. He advocated to fight for the little man and for America. His decision to run was quickly commended by many Democrats. At first it seemed like Gallagher would be a shoe in for the democratic nomination. However on the 13th of November in response to the high number of republican candidates Senator Raging Potato declared his candidacy for the presidency. He advocated his bipartisanship as Governor.

Gallagher was very successful in the Heartland primaries causing Sen. Potato to withdraw. Soon after, Senator Brett Patrick announced his run for President. This was done the day after the proposed democratic debate. Gallagher accused Patrick of attempting to get out of debating him. Patrick was successful at securing delegates in both the Heartland and CS primaries despite not having run. Patrick won the Jefferson and Fremont primaries and became the apparent nominee, as no one had reached the 1991 delegates mark.

Gallagher and many other democrats were annoyed at Patricks shock win and accused the DNC of bias as the nomination, inconclusive by delegate numbers, was decided ad hoc by a DNC+board meeting vote. This led to Democratic Representative James Dawson changing his registration from Democratic to Independent

After much discussion, the party chairs and board decided to hold a runoff national primary between the two senators between the 26th and the 27th of November to solve controversies in the most fair anmost d direct way possible. Mark Kennedy Gallagher emerged victorious with 55% of the vote and thus becoming the nominee.

### Republican

The Republican party started of with a large field with candidates, the candidates were; Sen. Logan Balsan, Sen Jacques "Jack" Sampson, Rep Gaming Is Life and Fmr Sen Dave Schnier. Balsan and is Life were quick to withdraw after poor polling performances. Sen Sampson tragically died ending his campaign. It lead to Schnier being the presumptive nominee. Most republicans were expecting a wipeout by the then frontrunner Sen. Gallagher. However, popular Heartland Governor Ethan Davis entered the race. is life also returned to the race. Davis was successful at winning all the primaries and was made the nominee.

Davis made Governor Fox his VP nominee.

## General Election Campaign

The General Election began officially after both candidates announced their choices for Vice President. Gallagher announced his decision to pick Sec. Nate Brown. This immediately faced criticism by republicans with Senator Davies claiming that Brown had been supporting Davis up until the position of Vice President was offered; later it was revealed that Gallagher had been in talks with Brown about the VP spot since Nov 3rd, along with other two possible picks. Shortly after Governor Davis declared he had picked Governor Mish Fox. This was considered a surprise pick by some democrats.

Shortly after this a prediction was released by moderator Ben Q. Poliphile., setting the first trends of the election.

The Gallagher campaign opened the race with a vigorous start, with many people already making events, rallies and town halls on day 1 in the east of the country. By contrast, the Davis campaign seemed to lack steam, as only one speech was made in Michigan by Senator Marty Davies on the first days.

During this time, Libertarian candidate Harvey Long announced he had chosen Harry Biring as his running mate.

The DNC was held in two days, November 29th and November 30th, in St. Louis Missouri. The speakers included D8 representative Gaming IsLife, Caesarea AG Chris Henderson, Caesarea Governor Wyatt DiCristopher, Secretary of State and Vice-presidential nominee Nate Brown, and Speaker of the House David Soriano Garcia as keynote speaker.

The RNC was going to be held as a single-day event on the 30th, in Charlotte North Carolina. No speakers where announced, but Marty Davies has announced he wouldn't be attending. In the end, the RNC wasn't held with no explanation given.

The campaign continued, with the Gallagher camp being very active through the days, posting every day rallies and events. Gallagher himself embarked in various tours of the country, visiting the southwest, the midwest, the southeast and the northeast. Meanwhile, Davis was all but active.

It turned out that Davis was to drop out due to irl issues and pledge all of his delegates to his VP presumptive nominee Mish Fox, thus the latter became the new presumptive Republican nominee.

Mish Fox was expected to lose in a landslide, however, performed better than expected on election night winning states that many expected to go to Gallagher.