2022 United States elections (Bismarck America)

## 2022 United States elections

Symbol of the Democratic Party

Map of the Senate elections

Map of the 2022 House races

Map of the 2022 Gubernatorial Races

The **2022 United States elections** were held in the United States on Tuesday, November 8, 2022. These midterm elections took place in the middle of Democratic President Jonathan S. Bismarck's first term. 34 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate and all 435 seats of the United States House of Representatives were all up contested, as well as 39 of the 50 governorships. In the general elections, the Democratic Party made surprising gains in both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate, as well as Governorships and state and local races in a midterm election where it was highly predicted to be a Red Wave for Republicans. Republicans suffered massive defeats across the country.

The Democrats kept control of both the House and the Senate by wide margins and wide gains of seats. In the House of Representatives, the Democrats gained 20 seats from the Republicans, and in the Senate, the Democrats gained 20 seats from the Republicans.

In the Gubernatorial Races, the Democrats gained, not only 14 of the 39 governorships contested, the Democrats expanded their majority on the governors' map. Winning notable surprise gains in Alabama, Georgia (with the first Muslim governor), Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, Alaska, South Dakota, Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa.

This election is clearly a surprise victory for President Bismarck, President Bismarck, even unlike George W. Bush, who did expand his congressional majorities in Congress, but suffered a Democratic wave in the Governships, President Bismarck expanded his Democratic Party beyond and increased his party's political power over the country. Bismarck has done something that Reagan, Bush 41, Clinton, Bush 43, Obama, and Trump have all failed to do, and that was to expand his party's political dominance over the country beyond.

These election results pointed to the all-hands-on-deck campaign style of President Bismarck, which includes his efforts to promote pro-life Democrats in conservative states and districts while still try to maintain a pro-choice majority and promote very progressive Democrats in liberal states and districts, the president's frequent warnings to the voters that a Republican majority in the House of Representatives will become "tea party slaves" who will shut the government down if these Tea Party Republicans demanded it. Republican house leadership struggled to rebuff these claims without alienating their Tea Party allies, which vindicated the president's message. Former President Donald Trump made a strong effort to promote Republican candidates to take back the House and the Senate in order to throw shit on President Bismarck's backyard in the next Congress like the Republicans did to President Obama when they controlled Congress, but Trump's efforts were outmatched by the feisty campaign of President Bismarck.

Elections are mostly decided by the popularity of politicians: President Bismarck has always had an approval rating at around 63%, the highest for a president in a midterm election since President George W. Bush during the 2002 midterm elections, this is due to the president's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, constant Republican obstruction, and the president's support for issues popular with the general public.

Following the elections, Republicans suffered a civil war, resulting in a wholesale change in party leadership within the GOP but Republican leadership in the house survived. Entering into the 2024 elections, Republicans struggled to select a winnable and electable nominee who can defeat a widely popular first-term Democratic president, but they instead nominated former Vice President Mike Pence, who lost to President Bismarck in a 49-1 state landslide, the worst performance for a Republican nominee in the party's history at the time.