Chawosauria in the 2020 United States Presidential Election

"*Let's have trial by combat!*"
—Rudy Giuliani, January 6, 2021[[YT|[src]]]

## Information

### Date

January 20, 2017 - January 20, 2021 (Trump's Presidency)* Early 2019 - March 3, 2020 (Chawosaurian interest)
* February 3, 2020 - after March 3, 2020 (U.S. Democratic Party primaries)
* October 15, 2020 - November 7, 2020 (Chawosaurian Support for Joe Biden)
* November 3, 2020 - January 7, 2021 (Republican attempts to overturn the 2020 election results)

### Cause

* Chawosaurian interest in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election
* Chawosaurian Support for Joe Biden
* Growing Opposition to Donald Trump in Chawosauria

### Objective

* Support Joe Biden for President (successful but support invalidated by Supreme Court)
* Ensure Donald Trump loses reelection (objective met)

### Result

Empire of Chawosauria - U.S. Democratic Party victory* Joe Biden wins the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election and Democrats won a federal trifecta down the ballot despite no coattail effect
* Trump and his supporters refused to tolerate defeat and tried to overturn the election results
* Storming of the United States Capitol
* Continued opposition to the results of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election
* Schism in the Trumpist Movement in Chawosauria over the Ural Wall during the Chawo-Uralic War

Leaders and Commanders|  **Chawosaurian Leadership*** Shang Jong Parker, Supreme Leader of the Empire of Chawosauria
* Jezebel Isela Boleslaus, Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria
* Genghis K.Q. Taizong, Federal Chancellor of the Continent Union
* Jonathan Dragan Boleslaus X, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of North America

 *American leaders and candidates supported by the Chawosaurian Government** Joe Biden (a)
* Kamala Harris
* Chuck Schumer
* Nancy Pelosi
* Phil Murphy †

 *Former Chawosaurian leaders** Degotoga K. Atagulkalu (until 2019) †
* Ekewaka Mikala Kalawai'a (until 2019) †
* Jonathan Dragan Boleslaus IX (until 2019)
* Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy III (until 2020) †
* Johnathan Saint Nicholas Montgomery VII (until 2019)
* Donald Trump (a) †
* Mitch McConnell †
* Kevin McCarthy †
* Greg Abbott

Combatants and Belligerents|  **Empire of Chawosauria*** 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government
* Chawosaurian Communist Party
* Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party
* Left-Wing faction of the 2020-2029 Chawosaurian Opposition

*Anti-Trump factions supported by the Chawosaurian Government** U.S. Democratic Party
* Black Lives Matter
* American Socialism
* American Leftists

*Anti-Trump factions not supported by the Chawosaurian Government** Anti-Trump Republicans
* Republican Voters Against Trump
* The Lincoln Project
* Christian Left
* Right-Wing faction of the 2020-2029 Chawosaurian Opposition
* U.S. Republican Party †

Blue Lives Matter* QAnon movement
* Tea Party Movement
* American Far-Rightists
* Christian Right

Casualties| 0 (no Chawosaurian casualties) | * 700+ Trump supporters died of COVID-19 after contracting it at Trump rallies
* 4 Trump supporters died fighting with armed authorities during the storming of the U.S. Capitol

The Empire of Chawosauria, its government and citizenry, have witnessed the 2020 United States elections, especially its presidential election more closely. Chawosauria's current government took office on January 1, 2020 following its landslide victory in the 2019 elections. The election result in the U.S. today: the Democratic Party won back the White House and the U.S. Senate, while retaining control of the U.S. House of Representatives despite losing over 10 seats. The Republican Party, in return, held on to a slim majority of governorships and retain majorities of state legislatures in many U.S. States. The Democrats retained control of most territorial governorships but neither major party: the Democrats nor the Republicans, won majorities in territorial legislatures. By November 3, 2020, Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker and his Communist Party, and Prime Minister Jezebel Isela Boleslaus will lead the Empire of Chawosauria through the 2020 U.S. elections. The Chawosaurian government formally endorsed Joe Biden for President of the United States, and it affected the Chawosaurian vote in the 2020 U.S. elections.

## Historical Event

Results of the 2020 presidential election.

### Participants

* Joe Biden (winner)
* Donald Trump (loser)

The President of the United States as of 2020 is Republican Donald Trump. Donald Trump at this point had to go through the headache of an uncontrolled COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent recession, while not even trying to fix the problems of America by pouring more gasoline to the fire with his law and order rhetoric in reaction to the George Floyd protests caused by widespread anger among the African-American community over the killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020, Trump preached the law and order card because he thought the events of the 2020 racial unrest would upset suburban and working-class White Americans all across the country the same way these people were upset with familiar events back in 1968 following the assassination of a nationally prominent Black American clergyman and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, but little did Trump knew, times have changed from 1968 to 2020 in terms of the evolution of racial demographics and societal attitudes throughout these years, which puts Republicans in a totally different electoral environment than in back in the 1968 U.S. presidential election and onward until Bill Clinton's first election to the presidency.

Trump wanted to use the pre-2020 state of the U.S. economy as a tool for reelection, but that was stripped away from him by the pandemic, but Trump was determined to not let the pandemic rob him of his lighting rod, which is a strong U.S. economy of 2019, so he downplayed the COVID-19 threat to appease the markets, and pressured U.S. states to reopen their economies, which only led to more infections, leading to the United States becoming a serious hotbed for COVID-19 in terms of the most infections and deaths in the world, which it's ironic given the fact that Trump put a travel ban on China because that is the country where COVID-19 was first discovered. Traditionally compared to the world, infections by a disease would be widespread in a country in which it was born, but the United States would break that tradition by having the most COVID-19 cases compared to the rest of the world even China, though the spreading of the disease started in China, and that is because of America's stupidly incompetent political leadership. That has truly become part of the testament of the Donald J. Trump presidency.

Democratic Party challenger Joseph R. Biden II defeated Donald Trump in the 2020 election. Biden overcame the mass expansion of the Trump coalition by reviving the Obama coalition back into relevance and force. Both Biden and Trump expanded their bases, but Biden gained the upper hand by taking advantage of metropolitan voters (urban voters who already voted Democratic decades before, and disaffected suburban voters who were turned off by Trump), and key Democratic Party traditional voters. Biden won 306 electoral votes to Trump's 232 electoral votes in the electoral college, though the funny fact is that it is a repeated result from 2016 favoring Trump and he touted that margin a landslide to taunt Democrats. In the popular vote, the Democrats won a fourth consecutive and overall seventh victory of the past eight presidential elections starting with Bill Clinton's election in 1992, to win the popular vote, Biden won 51.3% and 81 million to Trump's 46.9% and 74 million, both candidates gained from the 2016 result in terms of the raw vote. Trump is the first President since 1992 and the first overall in the 21st century to have lost a reelection bid. Biden continued the trend going back to 1892 in which a Democrat was elected President along with control of both chambers of Congress, and Trump is the first President on the Republican side since Herbert Hoover to have lost a chamber of Congress in a midterm election then lost reelection and another chamber of Congress and failed to flip back the previous chamber all in one election, in one term.

Trump and Biden have their pluses and minuses, Biden's minuses are Hispanics in South Texas and Florida, but he has many pluses, he bolstered the Democratic base, retained all Democratic Party friendly demographics, and bolstered his strength among nonpartisan voters, moderate voters, and disaffected conservatives, or anyone who is annoyed or tired of the *"us vs. them"* partisan politics encouraged by Trump. Biden did this by running a campaign of a return to normalcy, a return to bipartisan cooperation between Democrats and Republicans in Congress, which resonated with many Americans who are fed up with Trump's warfare-like politics against the other party, this was partly why Biden was able to get elected. Trump's minuses were independents, suburban voters, and moderates, who felt Trump was way too far to the right of the political spectrum, and they expected a President who is a centrist willing to make bipartisan deals between the two parties to get things done in Congress, and those non-political voters decided Biden fits their checklist of a moderate dealmaker. A politician, left-wing or right-wing, not making an effort to reach out to the center of the electorate is always a bad bet to make, George McGovern's left-wing campaign was destroyed in the 1972 election, resulting in the landslide reelection of President Richard M. Nixon, and Barry Goldwater's right-wing campaign was destroyed in the 1964 election, resulting in the landslide election of already-President Lyndon B. Johnson to a presidential term of his own. Trump didn't lose as bad as Goldwater and McGovern due to increasing partisan polarization, but not reaching out to nonpartisan voters, thus not expanding beyond your partisan base, is political suicide. Trump's failed efforts to paint Biden to be something of a "far-left anarchist" only made Trump look way more like a desperate radical who knew his radical agenda isn't popular enough to get him re-elected and that made Trump look even weaker in the eyes of moderate voters because Biden has a clear and obvious record of bipartisanship, not to mention Trump's well-documented tolerance of the alt-right movement didn't help Trump too much at all, especially not helping his cause at all with voters of color.

Trump left office on January 20, 2021 an utterly demoralized president than George W. Bush twelve years prior, Trump has tried and failed to overthrow the electoral results of the 2020 presidential election with 60+ lawsuits, all but one were unsuccessful due to a lack of evidence, the sole successful lawsuit still didn't come even near success into changing the outcome of any state. Trump tried to pressure state and local governments to change their state electoral results before the electoral college officially met at their state capitols on December 14th, but they rejected Trump's demands and the electoral college officially solidifies Biden's victory locked-solid and their votes will be sent to Congress for them to just simply count and declare Biden president-elect. But Trump interpreted the Constitution to believe his Vice President Mike Pence could only count states that Trump won and suppress those states that Biden won, thereby making Trump President again, except due to the disastrous 1876 U.S. presidential election, the law was drastically changed by the Electoral Count Act, which strips the Vice President of the ability to unilaterally choose a President himself. Pence knows the law and decided not to attempt to obstruct the electoral votes, which angers Trump so much that he summons his supporters to march over to the capitol to pressure Congress to throw away Biden's votes in the electoral college, but this move royally backfires as Trump supporters violently storms the capitol and Congress having to delay the certification and take cover to their bunkers until the rioters are cleared by the military. Congress reconvenes and certifies Biden's victory, thus permanently blocking Trump's path to alter his election loss, and as for Trump, he faces a severe backlash from members of his own party, Corporate America, the law, and the general public. The result of the day: Trump was impeached again by an extremely rare bipartisan vote of the entire Democratic majority in the House of Representatives at 222, to 10 coming from the Republican minority at 213. 197 Republicans voted against impeachment. Trump was expelled from social media because of the violence, he could face a potential bipartisan conviction and loss of his electoral eligibility, he left office to very sadly low approval ratings for an outgoing President that his wife Melania Trump leaves office with the worst popularity ratings suffered by an outgoing First Lady in U.S. History. Trump left office to a badly weakened Republican Party who just four years ago upon Trump's sole inauguration in 2017, controlled the White House, the two chambers of Congress, and massive majorities in the governorships and state legislatures. The Republican Party suffered a speedy slip in political power in a single presidential term for the first time since Herbert Hoover's presidency in the early 1930s, losing control of the House of Representatives in one of the worst midterm election massacres suffered by the Republican Party since the fallout of the Watergate scandal, Trump, a Republican president himself, lost his reelection, failed to win back the House of Representatives though adding new Republican members to the chamber, and then losing control of the Senate through two U.S. Senate runoff elections in the State of Georgia, making Trump the first President since Herbert Hoover to suffer a blistering string of losses like that in a single one-term presidency.

The Trump Presidency was ironically a gift to the Democratic Party because of Trump's arrogance and incompetence, it was the era of a glorious and speedy comeback for the Democratic Party, after losing the house in 2010 in one of the worst midterm election blowouts in U.S. history, losing the Senate in 2014 in another bruising midterm election suffered by the party, and then the presidency in 2016 to Trump in a very embarrassing way, the Democrats rose from the grave starting off with new wins in later 2017, then won back the house in 2018, and both the presidency and the Senate in one single election in 2020, winning its first but slimmer federal trifecta since 2008. Because this election was won by the Democratic Party, this is the first U.S. election under the patriarchy of Chester Lucas Webster over the Democratic-leaning Webster family of Prime Minister Garfield Lucas Webster. Chester Webster overtook the family in 2019 following the death of his father Garfield Lucas Webster II on September 4, 2019, at age 99 due to complications with old age. This is Eleanora McClellan Webster's first U.S. election in a life of widowhood, her first U.S. election in a life of marriage with Garfield Webster II was the 1948 U.S. presidential election won by then President of the United States, Harry S. Truman (D-MO) and she died in 2023.

Following the 2020 U.S. elections, the Trumpist movement in Chawosauria suffered a schism during the Chawo-Uralic War over the intensely controversial Ural Wall, dividing the Chawo-Trumpist movement between those who support the unpopular Ural Wall and those who oppose the Ural Wall as part of the border's massive unpopularity.

As a result of the quagmire environment of the Biden presidency in the United States, the Parker Administration have received substantial and widescale criticism from both the general public, the administration's supporters and opponents for their intervention into the 2020 U.S. elections, the Parker administration sought to distance themselves from their decision to way in to the election and withdrew their last remaining support from the Biden White House entirely. The Parker administration then promised not to way in to the 2024 U.S. presidential election and other foreign elections in the future. The Parker administration, and Shang Jong Parker himself, have managed to declare neutrality and sought to hold a low profile in the 2022 elections in Brazil. Starting in August 2022, Biden's presidency saw a turn around in the right direction as Biden's core signature agenda on climate and healthcare were successfully negotiated into the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which easily passed Congress; alongside a decline in inflation, Biden's party seemingly seeing their midterm election prospects recovering on the back of backlash to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and consequently an upswing in Biden's popularity. During the 2022 U.S. midterm elections, Donald Trump flexed his muscles over the Republican Party by involving himself into their primaries with help from Democratic arms who funded the campaigns of right-wing extremists so that swing state and district Democratic candidates can easily win their elections. The Republicans ran candidates who denied the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, questioned whether Biden truly is a legitimate President, and ran on an agenda of spacing out U.S. democracy.

When November 8, 2022 finally came, due to U.S. midterm history, an unpopular Democratic President, inflation, and crime, a Republican wave was treaded by Democrats and Republicans prepared to surf it, but by the dawn of November 9th, the midterms were a major disappointment for Republicans, no such wave had occurred and Democrats defied history. On the back of women, traditional Democrats, and zoomers, and believe it or not, Independents, Democrats ducked a wave, performing so well for a party that controls the White House that when the dust settled, Democrats held its grip on the U.S. Senate but barely lost control of the U.S. House of Representatives for a soft landing, and Democrats gained ground in state governments. All the Republicans got out from this midterm election was a weakened monopoly over state governments and a paper-thin majority in the U.S. House of Representatives that may not be strong enough to even impeach President Biden. However, despite a historically jaw-dropping achievement of winning a midterm election as the President of the United States, Biden's midterm triumph in the midst of dire odds did little to nothing to rally Democrats around him, but it made it tricky and complicated for Democrats to truly abandon Biden. Democrats won't truly move on from Biden until after the 2024 presidential election whether he wins reelection or not.

Preparing for the 2024 U.S. presidential election with an embarrassing midterm election, the Republican Party turned on each other in a blame game over who's to blame for the party's midterm debacle and most blamed Trump, dividing the party between Trump and the Republican prodigy of the midterms, Ron DeSantis the Governor of Florida who won a landslide reelection in the midterms, and DeSantis was widely called on to run for President, but Trump wasn't having it as he felt his grip on the Republican Party was being threatened and he entered the 2024 race to scare away DeSantis but also to dodge a potential indictment which is unlikely to work. Plus, the overturning of *Roe v. Wade*, while a significant party platform victory for the Republican Party, but it is a victory with a cost, Roe's fall turned the American people, even some Republicans, against social conservatism, and now it is the Republicans, no longer the Democrats, are the ones who have to defend themselves on abortion. Ron DeSantis' strength in the Republican primaries collapsed and his chances of defeating Biden was started to get limited when he plunged Florida into a costly losing battle with Disney over their support for LGBT rights, plus he signed an abortion ban for Florida, he did little to protect Trump from his indictment and investigations into his theft of highly classified government documents, and he started to crash in polling against both Donald Trump and President Joe Biden. On May 9, 2023, in a civil trial against Trump by one of his accusers of sexual assault, the jury declared Trump to be a sexual predator by stating based on evidence presented by the plaintiff's legal team that Donald Trump sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll, Trump's accuser who sued him, and for defaming Carroll after she came out against him in 2019. Carroll was ordered to be awarded $5 million in damages, but Trump and his team made it an effort to appeal the verdict, despite that unlikely.

## Background

Trump was elected in 2016 by a surprise result during the leadership of Abooksigun Eluwilussit as Supreme Leader of Chawosauria, and Jonathan Dragan Boleslaus IX as Prime Minister of Chawosauria, and a Communist Party-controlled Chawopolis Palace. The election of Donald Trump made Chawosauria very weary over the recent rise of right-wing populism that had been gaining smoke since the Great Recession in the late 2000s, Supreme Leader Abooksigun Eluwilussit, before he left office on December 31, 2016, established the Chawosaurian European Parliament which involves Chawosauria in the fight in the United Kingdom to preserve Britain's place in the European Union. On June 23, 2016, just five months prior to the November vote in the United States, the United Kingdom voted with 51% to leave the European Union, part of the ongoing populist advance throughout the 2010s. Unfortunately for Chawosauria, Chawosauria's involving role in the fight against Brexit would soon backfire when the U.K. holds an election in 2019 which resulted in a pro-Brexit Tory supermajority in the U.K. House of Commons, forcing Chawosauria to turn back from British politics as it watches the UK withdrawals from the EU in 2020. This humiliating experience in the United Kingdom originally made Chawosauria hesitant against involving themselves into the 2020 U.S. presidential election, known as the Brexit Syndrome.

Trump recently lost his Republican Party trifecta government in the 2018 midterm elections, keeping the Senate for his party in a bigger margin by 2 seats, but losing the House of Representatives to the Democratic Party by 41 (possibly 42) seats, which was the worst loss of seats suffered by a Republican President since President Gerald Ford in 1974.

It was still possible that Trump can get reelected, but in a trickier position, Trump's approval rating is still way under 50%, his trade wars with China, Canada, and Europe are destroying many of America's farming industry, North Korea still a nuclear power and a potential threat to the United States, and the possibility that the Democratic Party will forge a smart populist candidate to face Trump in 2020. In the way America voted in the 2018 elections, the 2018 electorate is not friendly to Trump's reelection, in the Senate, the House, and the Governorships, the Republicans failed to win the popular vote in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, three of Trump's critical states yet three states that has a recently long history of voting Democratic in recent presidential elections, and the Republicans losing ground in the American Southwest, which indicates that the Southwestern United States' 2018 voting attitudes threatened to replace the Midwest as a winning region for the Democratic Party.

Trump's struggle are Independents, Suburban Voters, Young Voters (although this group aren't as active as older voters, they're going increasingly Democratic, which it's deemed as a threat to the Republicans), and Trump will have a weaker advantage at winning the popular vote regardless who the electoral college elects, and regardless if Trump has an incumbency advantage or not, Trump's Republican Party is in much weaker shape than Trump, it is highly unlikely the Republicans will back control of the House of Representatives, the Republicans might lose seats in the U.S. Senate (possibly not enough to lose the Senate luckily), and the Republicans might lose more seats in state and local elections in 2020, and if Trump does get reelected, 2022 might be a bloodbath midterm election for Republicans.

Bernie Sanders' decision to run for President in 2020 backfires as Joe Biden, whose taking advantage of the fact that he was the Vice President on behalf of President Barack Obama, the most recent President to have been a member of the Democratic Party, and Sanders struggles to energize his base of youth voters and convince his potential voters to go to him over Biden. Biden took away from Bernie Sanders white blue-collar workers in the State of Michigan, the same group in the Rust Belt who gave Trump the Presidency, this suggests that Bernie Sanders may would have suffered a Hillary Clinton-style defeat four years earlier.

The voters in the Democratic Party care about defeating Trump in 2020, and they see Joe Biden, instead of Bernie, a safe enough bet for the party, and Joe proved this by winning Obama voters, white blue-collar folks, older folks who are the most than young folks energized to vote, and older Hispanics. Bernie Sanders has a real problem with African-Americans, Bernie Sanders and his campaign are struggling to convince Black voters to vote for him instead of Biden, the reason black folks are voting for Joe Biden is that Biden was the running mate and eventual Vice President of the nation's first Black President of the United States (Barack Obama), and Bernie's decisions to distance himself from Obama had been haunting him as the primaries proceed. The Sanders campaign realized they have a problem with black voters, so they made desperate attempts to educate black voters about Bernie's protests against Segregation, and link Bernie to Obama, but this proves unsuccessful as African Americans from the South gave Biden his greatest numbers.

Joe Biden was accused of sexual misconduct by a former Senate staffer, Tara Reade (also known as Alexandria Tara Moulton, or McCabe). In April 2019, she first said Biden had harassed her, but a year later, she then said Biden assaulted her sexually, and despite saying she did filed a complaint against the then-Senator, she said the file did not mention sexual harassment nor assault, only to say it did and that she did not said it didn't accuse Biden of the following charges. Biden finally addressed the allegations on Morning Joe with Mika Brzezinski, the show's co-host and wife of the host, Joe Scarborough. Brzezinski challenged Biden on past comments during the Kavanaugh allegations that Biden was setting a double standard between believing women against others but himself, Biden said that "believing" women means taking their claims seriously till a verdict.

While this sexual assault allegation is a major threat to Biden's campaign, especially with a video from 1993 of a woman (who Tara Reade said was her mother) calling Larry King about what a victim should do about a situation of being sexually abused by a Senator because the woman said that her daughter was abused by a Senator and "could not go through with her problems at all". Everything seemed to be going against Biden, at least till the complaint debacle by Reade herself by contradicting herself on rather her complaint said harassment and assault but saying it didn't mention these two terms earlier.

Trump had similar allegations thrown at him. One was Jessica Leeds, an elderly woman who said she encountered Trump in a plane, only to be assaulted by Trump after being offered to sit at first class. This alleged incident took place in 1979, still a time period when women who were victims were told to be silent. The purpose of the Me Too Movement was to change that culture, and succeeded over the years. Trump's Access Hollywood tape which exposes Trump of bragging about sexually assaulting women "When you're a star they let you do it, you can do anything, grab 'em by the \*\*\*\*\*, you can do anything". Trump still got elected after that and the Me too movement escalated.

Speaking of Trump, Trump has his own 2020 problems, and it's not sexual misconduct this time. It is his negligence of the 2020 coronavirus crisis in the United States. When the coronavirus pandemic was erupting worldwide and it is about to hit the United States, Trump (fearful that the news will make the stock market tumble) tries to downplay the threat by saying "it will magically disappear", "one person coming from China", "we're keeping it in a minimum", when in reality the Covid-19 pandemic was expanding because Trump didn't do a good job restricting the border tough enough though he prides himself as "tough on immigration and the border". Trump was too late to restrict immigration, he restricted immigration in a time when coronavirus already tumbled the United States and there was never gonna be immigration at all because much of the world already shut down emigration and travel.

The reason Trump did little to stop Covid-19 from becoming a pandemic in America and did from little to too late to restrict travel, test Americans, and prepare for the worst was because Trump feared the coronavirus news will cripple the stock market, which would mean crippling his reelection efforts for 2020. If Trump had autocratic power, he would censor the media from reporting on the coronavirus pandemic, punished (possibly execute) journalists for reporting the pandemic, simply just to protect the stock market, again meant protecting his path to reelection. This isn't the first time the government lied about a pandemic, during the onset of the 1918 flu pandemic, commonly known as the Spanish flu, much of the world's governments didn't allow the media to report the contagion of the flu due to fears that it will interfere with their attempts to win World War I, but neutral states, prominently Spain, allowed the media to report the flu pandemic and the news spread despite censorship attempts, giving birth to the infamous term *Spanish flu*.

When it was clear that the coronavirus pandemic is gonna have to run its course as part of the nature of a pandemic, Trump needed to lead the country through this big problem, the country (kinda) rallied around Trump for that leadership, known as the *rally 'round the flag* phenomenon, his approval was spiking to unprecedented levels but not enough to get him to majority approval territory. Trump started, well, you can say taking charge of the White House coronavirus task force, he held daily press conferences, only to get into arguments with journalists and contradict his medical experts to claim the markets, Trump was using his daily press briefings as his campaign rallies to entertain his base...while Americans are literally losing their souls to the pandemic. This eventually backfired when his rallying approval ratings crumbled and his reelection expectations tumbled. Trump's nail to his political stunts' coffin was his suggestions of injecting coronavirus patients with disinfectants (bleach, chlorine, and other cleaning products) to treat or prevent coronavirus. This sparked widespread outrage, anger, frustration, and anxiety because his base will literally do what Trump says, including killing themselves if Trump (though unintentionally) tells them to.

Trump had to stop his daily briefings due to that really dangerous debacle. There were incidents also of Trump supporters drugging, poisoning, and in some cases, killing themselves accidentally simply by following Trump's "instructions".

The Black Lives Matter movement escalated following a firestorm of phone videos of a black man named George Floyd being killed by police officers in Minnesota start to swim in the social media universe. The George Floyd protests erupted at first with riots and then peaceful demonstrations, which were still met with police resistance despite being peaceful demonstrations, thus only fueling allegations of racial bias against law enforcement. Trump attempted to exploit the BLM outcry by running his campaign like it's the 1968 presidential campaign, labeling Joe Biden as a left-wing socialist because of his likely support for the Black Lives Matter movement, though Biden rejects the need for violence as a solution to not being heard.

Donald Trump is President of the United States, meaning he's the guy in charge, and he is judged by how peaceful American society is or not, and when he accuses the political dissent of starting riots, there is speculation that Trump is unintentionally admitting he's not doing his job as commander in chief to stop the riots, and talking as if the Democrats were in charge and that they failed to stop the riots themselves (though they're not the ones in charge, Trump is).

## Chawosauria's Role

The Communist Party won unified control of the Empire of Chawosauria in the 2019 Chawosaurian elections despite losing the Premiership to Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy III via a monarchical appointment. The Communists won back the monarchy for the first time in three years with Shang Jong Parker and the Communist Party won back control over the Chawopolis Palace in the 2019 legislative elections.

With the Empire of Chawosauria living under unified Communist Party control, Chawosaurians will watch the 2020 U.S. elections. President Trump was already busted by an anonymous whistleblower for pressuring Ukraine to get dirt on his potential opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, and is on the verge of getting impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives over this attempt. In the scandal, Trump was fearful that Joe Biden may could unseat him because Biden was polling very well in both the Democratic primaries and the presidential election against him, desperate to dodge this possibility, Trump used the congressionally-approved $391 Million in military aid for Ukraine to use against Russia as leverage to make Ukraine announce an investigation into Joe Biden, his son Hunter and the company that Hunter worked for, Burisma, to hurt Biden's electability. This type of deal-making to retrieve something valuable, in this case, a foreign investigation that is useful to make an electoral opponent look bad in the eyes of the public to gain an electoral advantage over that opponent, would be interpreted as **bribery** and under U.S. Constitutional law, bribery is especially an impeachable offense.

## Donald Trump

> *(see: Chawosaurian reaction to the Impeachment of Donald Trump)*
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## Individual

*45th President of the United States*

Donald Trump

### Roll

President of the United States, Businessman

### Born

Donald John TrumpJune 14, 1946

New York City, New York, USA

### Parents

* Fred Trump
* Mary MacLeod Trump

### Children

Donald Trump Jr, Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump, Tiffany Trump (Before Melania Trump), and Barron Trump (Melania Trump)

**Donald John Trump** (b. June 14, 1946) is an American businessman and politician serving as the 45th President of the United States since January 20, 2017.

Announced a run for the presidency in 2015, he created a movement of populism to clean Washington of powerful and wealthy elitism that was taking over Washington, but he was also known to seemingly stoke the flames of racism and xenophobia by claiming Mexicans are "criminals and rapists" and suggesting that the U.S. should build a wall on the US-Mexico border and have Mexico pay for it themselves. This populism swept him to power in 2016, but as he gets into office, he failed to deliver on his promises, failed epically to repeal Obamacare through a legislative process, signed a tax bill that critics said it benefits the same people Trump rallied against, and sought to reverse Obama's agenda, several he successfully repealed, but at a critical life-risking risk for America's safety when it comes to Obama's foreign policy (Iran).

Trump is hated by most Americans (except Republicans), Trump is deeply unpopular with African-Americans by under 10% of them supporting him and over 90% opposing him, Trump is also unpopular among LGBT Americans, Jews, Women, Suburbans, Independents, Democrats, and all those other racial groups who aren't white and religious groups who aren't Christian. Trump's unpopularity was so bad that he came to office with an unfavorable approval rating, becoming the first President in U.S. history to do so, and as of January 2020, he remains unpopular today.

Trump was impeached but acquitted over attempt to bribe (or pressure) Ukraine to go after Joe Biden due to Trump's fears that Biden could be tough to beat.

Trump did lose reelection at the height of a pandemic, a pandemic-caused recession, and Trump's own failure to combat the pandemic drained his reelection capability, and his already unpopularity with moderates, suburban and nonpartisan voters saw Trump as too radical for them.

## Individual

*46th President of the United States*

Joe Biden at a campaign rally

### Roll

* 46th President of the United States (2021-present)
* 47th Vice President of the United States (2009-2017)
* U.S. Senator of Delaware (1973-2009)

### Born

November 20, 1942Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA

### Parents

* Joseph Robinette Biden Sr
* Catherine Eugenia Finnegan

### Spouse

* Neilia Hunter Biden (married: 1966-1972, her death)
* Jill Jacobs Biden (married 1977)

### Children

* Joseph Robinette "Beau" Biden III (deceased)
* Hunter Biden
* Naomi Biden (died in infancy with her mother in 1972)
* Ashley Biden (with Jill Biden)

**Joseph Robinette Biden II** was born on November 20, 1942, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Joseph Robinette Biden Sr, and Catherine Eugenia *Finnegan* Biden. Coming to the nickname **Joe**, and known also as the **Scrampy Kid from Scranton**. Joe Biden's father was once a wealthy man, but he fell from wealth, but becomes a used-car salesman and was actually successful. Joe Biden was raised into the Catholic faith, and moving to Delaware.

Biden as a kid turned out to have a stutter, he was bullied for it but makes up for it by reading poetry to a mirror as a way to straighten his sentences. Biden attended Syracuse University and the University of Delaware. Biden was a Republican till he was disaffected by Richard Nixon, Biden then becomes an Independent, then becomes a Democrat. Biden was occasionally a progressive Democrat, and was elected to the New Castle County Council. Biden married his first wife, Neilia Hunter, in 1966, and had three children, Hunter, Joseph III (come to be known as Beau), and Naomi Biden.

Biden was elected to the United States Senate in the 1972 U.S. elections, but following his election to the Senate representing Delaware, his wife Neilia, and their three children, were hit in a car accident, resulting in the deaths of Neilia and their infant daughter Naomi, and the injuries of Beau and Hunter. Biden had to be sworn in as Senator with his two sons at his side in hospital beds. Biden becomes a single father, having to do his Senatorial duties and work, and raise his two boys at once. In a blind date, Biden met up with Jill Jacobs, whom he would marry in 1977, and becoming known as Jill Biden, she becomes the stepmother of Hunter and Beau, and Joe and Jill would go on to have their own daughter, Ashley, in 1981.

As a Senator, Biden had his ups and downs, his ups were his bipartisan approach to dealmaking with Senators to get things done and role in the Robert Bork nomination process, but his opposition to busing (a desegregation method), and his poor handling of the Anita Hill accusations against Supreme Court Justice nominee Clarance Thomas, and the fact that he once called LGBTQ people a "national security threat" on one occasion, are things that would not fly with the 21st-century standards of the Democratic Party.

Biden's first run for the Presidency was in 1988, where he ran for President for the 1988 Democratic Party nomination for President to replace the term-limited Ronald Reagan, but that campaign was cut short by an ugly smear campaign by Michael Dukakis, in which they expose Biden seemingly using the same words as UK Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock in a debate, leading to speculations of plagiarism that derailed Biden's campaign that he dropped out. Michael Dukakis went on to swipe the nomination and lose to Vice President George H.W. Bush in a landslide.

Biden continued to serve as Senator until he ran for President again in the 2008 election, where Biden stumbled with his words, Biden becomes known as the gaffe machine, always saying things that are not meant to be said, or things that were unintentionally offensive, for instance, he mistakenly said "poor kids are just as bright as white kids", leading to some to speculate that Biden was a racist. Biden was polled out of the race, but he was selected by Barack Obama, the Democratic Party's 2008 nominee, as serve as Obama's partner, his running mate for the Vice Presidency, an offer Biden accepted though Obama and Biden never knew each other at first even though they were Senators.

Obama and Biden's ticket massively defeated John McCain and Sarah Palin's ticket in the 2008 vote, in a margin of 365 electoral votes to McCain and Palin's 173 electoral votes, and carried the popular vote with nearly 53% to McCain and Palin's 45%. Ironically, Sarah Palin was also a gaffe machine, much like Biden, Palin's gaffes include prominently her not being able to name any sources to her statements, making her look less-educated about the world around her, and that may have served as a liability for McCain's campaign, Palin is endlessly mocked by progressives as an uneducated fool, fitting the stereotype towards Republicans as being uneducated rednecks from Rural America.

Biden served as the 47th Vice President of the United States under Barack Obama, during the 2012 campaign, there is alleged talk of Obama possibly replacing Biden because of his gaffes, but Obama retained Biden's place on the Obama team, and Obama and Biden were reelected in the 2012 vote, defeating Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan (future Speaker of the United States House of Representatives) in a margin of 332 electoral votes and 51.1% of the popular vote to the Romney/Ryan camp's 206 electoral votes and 47.2% of the popular vote, which it's ironic because Romney was caught in a hot mic recording predicting 47% of the electorate will vote for Obama because they were too dependent on welfare and were unable to be responsible for their own lives.

2015 saw the rise of Donald Trump, who insisted on building a wall on the Southern border separating the United States and Mexico, as a solution to illegal immigration of Mexicans to the United States, and shutting down the immigration and/or any travel by Muslims into the United States as a solution to terrorist attacks on American soil proclaimed by the terrorists themselves that their actions were motivated by the teachings of the Quran, the holy scriptures of the Muslim faith. Trump was called a racist and a xenophobe as a result of these statements made by him, and sparked fear among Establishment Republicans that these proposals could turn off Independent voters (crucial to swinging an election), and moderates from both parties from voting for the Republican Party on the 2016 ballot. But the Democratic Party had their own issue as well, Hillary Clinton, the party's poster child for the 2016 election, was the subject of controversy over her use of a private email server for government business, as well as the deleting of over 300 emails that could have contained important government information such as national security, etc. And like the Republican Party, the populist force from the left was riding on the candidacy of Bernie Sanders, a progressive and nonpartisan Senator from Vermont since 2007, ran for President in 2016 on a campaign to resurrect the politics of the New Deal era under Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency in the 30s and early 40s.

Joe Biden declined from running for President because he was dealing with personal tragedy yet again, Beau Biden, his son, and Delaware's Attorney General, died from brain cancer in 2015, and that struck down Biden's ambitions for the Presidency in a year like 2016. Hillary Clinton managed to survive a tough primary against Bernie Sanders, while Donald Trump took advantage of a multi-man division in the Republican primaries, humiliating them on stage, energized the Republican base with his campaigning style, and constantly bashed Hillary Clinton on toast.

By the summer of 2016, it was clear that the race was between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, both very unlikable candidates, a good example of the lesser of two evils that third parties received a surge of support from disaffected Democrats and Republicans. Clinton led in all the polls, national and state by state, leading to the media industry to believe Hillary Clinton may actually be elected President, running against a clearly flawed and extremely controversial candidate widely painted by the media as a radical extremist in line with Barry Goldwater and George McGovern.

Donald Trump was caught in a hot mic recording, saying because he has money and fame, he could sexually assault women and get away with it, that led to an extreme backlash even from his party, and a wave of women alleging they were sexually assaulted or harassed by Trump himself began to give his campaign headaches. Trump denied the allegations, but Hillary Clinton couldn't politically exploit Trump's problem without dealing with the fact that her own husband, former President Bill Clinton, was also accused of sexual assault, rape, and harassment, and Clinton's sex life was also no secret anyone because of his extramarital affair with a White House intern when he was President. Clinton's accusers said Hillary Clinton intimidated them into silence, and the accusers supported Trump despite he is also accused of sexual misconduct, and therefore, Hillary Clinton's emails, her role in her husband's sex life, and other problems made enough voters to decide who they rather want as President.

On November 8, 2016, the unthinkable has happened, Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton, in one of human history's greatest upsets that shocked the world into paralysis, Trump won with a margin of 306 electoral votes, but lost the popular vote to Clinton with a margin of 46% to Clinton's 48%. Clinton finished with 232 electoral votes. To many Americans, it was like watching the news coverage of the September 11 Attacks all over again. The people who voted for Clinton, unhappy with a President that they did not elect, took to the streets, starting Inauguration Day 2017, to oppose Trump's presidency, Obama and Biden gave Trump and Mike Pence a peaceful transition of power, and prepared them to govern.

But Trump started his presidency all off the rails, he endorsed a massively unpopular healthcare bill that threatened to repeal Obama's crowning jewel accomplishment; Obamacare, Trump has shown himself not adapting to, or even learning about the environment of Washington DC, that he didn't fulfill much of his agenda, even in the middle of unified Republican control of Congress, he spurred chaos around his administration that pretty much wasted a lot of the time of Americans, allegations of tampering with a foreign government to win power come under serious investigations, prominently a special counsel investigation headed by Robert Mueller. All of this resulted in terribly low approval ratings for Trump for a President serving his first year, ratings so low it was below 40%.

The Democratic Party won back control of the United States House of Representatives in a gain of 41 seats, reversing the eight-years of Republican control of the House that began with the 2010 U.S. House elections under President Obama when the Republicans gained 63 seats. Democrats also bolstered their number of Governors, number of state legislative seats, though not winning a majority of state legislatures and governors, leaving the Democratic Party well prepared for the 2020 election.

Biden recovered and announced in 2019, that he will run for the Presidency. Bernie Sanders also threw his hat in the ring, and a mega field of Democratic candidates of different views and backgrounds, throwing their hats in the ring, to run for President to stick it to Trump. Bernie Sanders was the toughest against Biden, but Biden turned out to have the benefit of being the Vice President of the nation's first Black American president, winning him the black vote in the 2020 Democratic Party primaries, and then eventually, the nomination.

Both progressives and Republicans mocked Biden for his stumbling of words as a possible result of his stuttering disorder, but the progressives learned in the 2020 Democratic primary that that wasn't a beneficial strategy as Biden marches to the Democratic nomination by trampling over Bernie Sanders and his army on Super Tuesday and onward. Republicans would soon learn that lesson when Biden marches to the presidency trampling over Trump and his own army. Biden however wasn't without controversy, Biden made up facts about being arrested with Nelson Mandela, once confused his wife and sister to each other, as a U.S. Senator Biden supported policies, some of them pretty racist, such as opposition to busing and the 1994 crime bill that devastated Americans of color, and a former U.S. Senate staffer who worked for Biden by the name Tara Reade went public and alleged Biden from sexually harassing her but only to change her story to outright saying Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993, an allegation Biden denied as everybody would predict an accused person, guilty or innocent, would most likely do, and the Trump campaign failed to exploit the Tara Reade scandal because Trump would look more hypocritical due to his exposed friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and the fact that various women said Trump sexually harassed and assaulted them and an audio tape of Trump bragging about sexually assaulting women because he was famous.

With the nomination in his grasp following Bernie Sanders' withdrawal from the primary, Biden is now the sole candidate who can swipe the nomination unchallenged. Biden struck down an entire large field of center-left Democratic candidates seeking their party's nomination for President, and the primaries weren't even close. In the early primary proceedings, it seemed as if Bernie Sanders was gaining the upper hand over an increasingly younger and progressive Democratic Party, but Bernie Sanders' fatal weakness among black voters, especially those in the south, was exposed on Super Tuesday.

The Democrats nominated Biden to face Trump, who of course won his party's nomination for President again for another term. Trump, with the loss of the U.S. economy as a lifeboat issue that favors him, now had to defend his record as President, which it's mostly not good on the issues of COVID-19 and racial inequality. Trump tried to divert attention away from COVID-19 (because it's hurting him politically) by trying to run a Nixon '68 like campaign by drumming up the words "law and order" in reaction to the George Floyd protests to rally white voters in the suburbs of America (not even understanding or was even aware of the increasing racial diversity in the suburbs in recent decades since 1968), and trying to paint Biden as an enabler of the rioters and looters, some of whom were not even participants of the Black Lives Matters protests.

Trump failed miserably to define Biden as some kind of "far-left radical", in the same fashion Nixon labeled George McGovern as a far-left radical when he ran for reelection in 1972, and it paid off for Nixon as he wins a 49-1 state landslide with 520 of the total 538 electoral votes. But Trump won't be as successful as Nixon at painting Biden as a radical for two reasons: the first reason is polarization: in this era of polarization, Democrats don't care at all compared to Democrats back in the '70s with George McGovern, but with Biden, Democrats will absolutely vote for him regardlessly due to party loyalty rather Biden is actually a radical or not and the *Edison Exit Poll* proved that by showing Biden winning his party's vote with a score of 94% to Trump's 5% of Biden's party and Trump crushing his own party's vote with 94% to Biden's 6% of Republicans according to the same exit poll, and the second reason is that Biden is known very well for his bipartisan approach to dealmaking to get a piece of legislation passed, making Biden seem open to Republicans in the eyes of moderate and independent voters, Biden seems like a pragmatist who can deliver results and that centrist approach to governing made him an acceptable choice for nonpartisan, suburban, and moderate voters across the country.

The fact that Trump did not have as much support from Democratic voters as Nixon and Reagan enjoyed when they painted their Democratic challengers as "elitist tax-spending liberals" or "far-left radicals" which won the two men giant landslide reelections even with moderate support as well, and Biden was the moderate challenger against a not-so-moderate incumbent in the eyes of moderates puts Trump in a big electoral disadvantage because historically, a politician needs moderates and independents to win an election, and that is still true for presidential candidates even in a deeply polarized environment in this day.

Biden, though 4-days late after election day due to the slow counting of absentee ballots, wins the presidential election over Trump, making him the first challenger since Bill Clinton in 1992, to beat a sitting commander-in-chief, which historically seems like a very impossible task. Donald Trump will join ten Presidents (John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and George H.W. Bush) who have lost a reelection bid.

Biden will join those Presidents (Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton) to have won the presidency against a sitting president.

## Chawosaurian Leadership during the 2020 U.S. Elections

The political leadership of the Empire of Chawosauria during the 2020 U.S. elections are: Shang Jong Parker, Supreme Leader of the Empire of Chawosauria who took office on January 1, 2020. Jezebel Isela Boleslaus, *Interim* Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria following the resignation of Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy III on April 20, 2020, due to impeachment proceedings. The Chawosaurian Communist Party are the dominant party since January 1, 2020, all since the 2019 Chawosaurian elections (the Prime Minister was an unelected office).

## Chawosaurian Reaction

Chawosaurians are apathetic towards the 2020 elections in the U.S. than they were in 2016. Chawosaurians view the 2020 U.S. elections as "unimportant" and show no interest in American politics. The Chawosaurian Census and Statistics Department announced on February 17, 2020, that 83% of Chawosaurians who live in the United States stated that they will not vote in the 2020 elections, to 16% of Chawosaurian Americans who said they'd vote, and 1% unsure, that 16% was far lower than the 51% from 2016, and 64% in 2012 during a time of excitement over President Obama running for reelection that year. With Chawosaurian Americans voted against the Communist Party in the 2019 Chawosaurian elections after a realignment in the 2017 Chawosaurian elections, Chawosaurian Americans, now shifting into the center, showing lack of excitement over the presence of Bernie Sanders becoming a frontrunner of the Democratic Party against Trump.

## Results

Biden flipped five states: Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, thus winning him more than enough to win the presidency. Biden flipped these states for 79 electoral votes. However, Biden flipped a congressional district in Nebraska. Biden was the first Democrat since Bill Clinton to win Georgia (since 1992) and Arizona (since 1996). Biden rebuild the "blue wall" by holding all states won by Hillary Clinton who was the Democrats' previous presidential nominee from 2016, and Biden won back three states that Trump flipped: Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

Ohio and Florida were striped of their status as "bellwether states" because Biden becomes the first Democrat to win the White House since JFK in 60 years without these two states. Democratic strength swelled in New England and the Pacific Northwest due to a coalition of traditional Democrats, disaffected Moderate Republicans, suburban voters and independents, thus adding to Biden's big popular vote win. Trump had improved marks from Hispanic voters which saved him in Texas and Florida, but that doesn't matter in California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, and Arizona because Biden won them all. Trump's gains in the black vote really does not matter because swelled black turnout caused Biden to flip Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Biden still won both the black and Latino vote by lopsided majorities.

Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the 2020 election by a margin of 306 electoral votes to Trump's 232 electoral votes, and then 51% (and counting) for Biden in the popular vote, to Trump's 47% of the popular vote, both candidates expanded their bases from 2016, but with Biden having the demographic and geographic advantage.

## Aftermath: Attempts to Overturn Election and the January 6th Insurrection

Refusing to admit defeat, Trump filed lawsuits and tried to systemically win reelection without any regard for the voters (including his own), but they were met with a significant lack of success and the successful containment of the constitutional order of the United States.

After all attempts to overturn the election went nowhere, Trump and his supporters have finally had enough and decided that Congress' certification of the Electoral College which was won by Biden was the last resort for Trump and his supporters to stop a looming Biden presidency. A frustrated and desperate Trump called in his supporters to arrive to Washington DC for a *Stop The Steal* rally at first at the White House then on to the Capitol to pressure Vice President Pence to stop the newly seated 117th United States Congress (which look like will be unilaterally controlled by the Democrats after two U.S. Senate runoff elections in Georgia) from certifying a Biden presidency, though in reality world, Pence has no such power, Pence's actual role is just to take out certificates of election and count them, Congress had the power to invalidate the electoral college, but the idea that a Democratic-controlled House of Representatives will join a Republican-led Senate to invalidate a presidential election won by the Democratic presidential nominee is so unlikely that the idea itself is too laughable for a Trump supporter or even Trump himself, to hope would happen.

Under Trump's orders, his supporters marched to the Capitol, but probably little did most of the Trump White House themselves knew, the demonstrators have trampled over the DC police and their boundaries between the Capitol and the demonstrators themselves, the demonstrators turned into seditionist rioters who stormed up the steps of the Capitol, slammed and broke their way inside the Capitol, forced all members of Congress to stop the process of certification and hide from the rioters, and it was all broadcasted on television and social media not just in the United States for the American people to see, but for the whole world to see of what the United States of America, this supposed "guardian of the free world" has resorted to. With the situation increasingly deteriorating into the *"Chernobyl disaster"* of the Trump White House and their supporters, Trump did an inadequate attempt to cool the situation down through a White House video posted on Twitter, telling his supporters that they were "special" and that he loved them while telling them to "go home in peace" while repeating his claims of voter fraud, which of course did nothing to undo the damage that was already done, Trump can't cover it up and the whole world knows of this disaster. Inside the scenes, Trump resisted calling on the United States National Guard to quell the insurgency until he eventually caved because the situation was getting so bad, meanwhile, nearby states did called in their state guards, with Trump unlikely to have any veto-power over these governors. At nightfall, after a whole disastrous day, the National Guard arrived and forced the insurgents out of the Capitol. After the insurgency, Congress reconvened and Republicans abandoned some of their state objections, leaving Arizona and Pennsylvania to have their results objected but were easily defeated. At the end, Biden was made President of the United States with Kamala Harris made Vice President of the United States, and for the Democratic Party, having been left by the two Senate runoff elections in Georgia with unified control of Congress; and as for the Republican Party, the Republican Party was utterly demoralized, lost unified control of government in one single term which never happened to whatever party since the Hoover presidency in nearly 90-years, and adding insult to injury for Republicans, they got humiliated for the entire nation and world to see by a violent insurgency of their own supporters after spending the 2020 U.S. election campaign branding themselves as *the party of law and order* in response to the uprisings and protests over the police killing of George Floyd in May 2020. As for Trump, he was permanently banned from Twitter and other social media platforms and he was impeached the second time on his way out, which no U.S. President has ever been impeached more than once before in U.S. history. Despite acquittal in the U.S. Senate, Trump suffered the worst defections from his party of any impeached President, every Democrat of both chambers voted to hold Trump accountable joined by 10 Republicans in the house and 7 Republicans in the Senate, making it the most bipartisan impeachment process in U.S. history.

The January 6th insurrection is the Republican Party's Chicago '68 disaster. A little history of that event in 1968; during the 1968 U.S. presidential election, the Democratic Party held its convention in Chicago, Illinois, to nominate a candidate to be elected President of the United States to replace their head of the party and President at the time, Lyndon B. Johnson, after President Johnson dropped out of the primaries because in 1968, the War in Vietnam was bitterly unpopular and Johnson faced backlash for escalating the conflict that it crippled his campaign for an elected second term and overall third term. Attempting to nominate a candidate, the Democratic Party encountered a protest resistance who hoped to leverage the Democratic Party into nominating an anti-war candidate over the potential, Vice President Hubert Humphrey following the loss of anti-war hopeful and a Kennedy by the name of Robert F. Kennedy to a successful assassination two months prior, but a stubborn Democratic Party resisted and in an effort to show that the Democratic Party has no tolerance for dissent against their Vietnam policy, the party deployed Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley to crack down, a move which would prove to be the Democrats' ultimate undoing as things took a turn for the worst, the Chicago Police Department, the U.S. National Guard and the U.S. Army engaged in a bloody fight with the demonstrators that disrupted the city and embarrassed the Democratic Party in the process right in front of broadcasting cameras for the whole world to see on their television sets with no irony that the demonstrators shouted the famous chant "the whole world is watching", putting the Democratic Party in such a legacy-earning demoralizing state especially since its a presidential election year, and embarrassed the United States to the whole world, but Humphrey was nominated anyway and the demonstrators against Humphrey proved at the end, ineffective. The disastrous Chicago insurgency likely played a role in costing the Democrats the White House at the end of 1968 despite considerable success for Humphrey at narrowing up the race against Republican nominee, Richard Nixon.

U.S. President Joe Biden comes into the White House inheriting from his historically and egotistically incompetent predecessor: a sharply divided nation that is badly plagued by an uncontrolled COVID-19 pandemic struggling with a subsequent economic recession.

On Trump's part, he has left office a nation badly politically divided, deeply plunged by an uncontrolled pandemic and barely addressed economic recession, Trump also left office a badly wounded Republican Party who just four years ago upon Trump's inauguration, had the White House, the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, as well as stronger majorities of governors and state legislatures, as well as its biggest prize, the U.S. judiciary, but now the Republican Party is the opposition party once again, no longer holding the White House, a U.S. Senate majority, or even a U.S. House majority, but the party now has a weak majority of governors, a simpler majority in the state legislatures, but only one bright spot: a stronger conservative judiciary, that is the one and only positive Trump has left behind for the Republican Party.

While the Republican Party was not as bad in shape as they were back in 2009, the party is still in dyer need for a speedy period of reflection and reconstruction, but their biggest obstacle is a more radicalized base, which could cost the party even further support from suburban voters, and nobody is predicting a pro-Trump mob storming the U.S. Capitol simply because Congress was performing a constitutional duty will certainly help the Republican Party's case on law and order issues in the suburbs of America for years to come, starting with the 2022 U.S. midterm elections.

A funny irony, during the 2018 U.S. midterm elections, the Trump and the Republican Party ran a slogan/hashtag called #JobsNotMobs, applying that Republicans create jobs while Democrats create mobs, despite the January 6th insurrection while another ironic fact is that of the January 6th mob that stormed the Capitol, there were incidents of Blue Lives Matter factions of the pro-Trump mob holding pro-police flags while assaulting and insulting the DC Police while they're on duty, which is something these same Blue Lives Matter people frequently accused the Black Lives Matter side and more broadly the left-wing of doing.

The Democrats and only two Republicans, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, believed the insurrection should not go uninvestigated, so a bipartisan congressional commission, similar to the 911 commission, was set up to investigate the January 6th insurrection, however, it was filibustered by the Republicans in the U.S. Senate in a bid to cover for Trump, but the move backfired as Democrats instead set up a U.S. House select committee on the January 6th, insurrection, with members being all Democrats with Cheney and Kinzinger allowed to join and participate in, forcing Trump to stand completely defenseless as the committee will end up collecting the most damaging information on Trump entirely unchallenged by Republican counter-narrating and whitewashing, something the Republicans soon realized the bipartisan January 6th commission would've allowed had it not been filibustered.

The information on Trump collected and released to the public by the select committee through a series of televised hearings in late 2022 were incredibly damaging for Trump, it so badly threatened a possible 2024 presidential bid to reclaim the White House from Biden, and made Trump pretty vulnerable to prosecution, which would effectively make it challenging for Trump to run for President. The hearings revealed that Trump refused to call in the National Guard, leaving Pence to do all the commanding of the National Guard, which proved crucial in the successful crackdown of the insurrection. The hearings also revealed that the insurrection was part of a seven part plan by Trump to overturn the election, therefore highlighting Trump's involvement in the insurrection, and his refusal to do anything about it.

## The Republican Party's Leadership Crises

Following Trump's humiliatingly petty departure from the presidency on January 20, 2021, the Republican Party was left ideologically fractured with no control of the presidency nor two chambers of Congress after controlling the White House and both chambers of Congress starting on the day Trump assumed office in 2017. The Republican Party has not suffered a speedy loss of the White House and Congress in one single term since Herbert Hoover's presidency (1929-1933). This would make Donald Trump one of the worst major party leaders in U.S. history. It took U.S. President Barack Obama an entire two-term presidency to plummet his party to a point it has no control of branch of government, thus making Obama a below-average party leader, but Obama cannot beat Trump as one of the worst party-bosses in U.S. history.

In the beginning of Biden's presidency, the Republicans were ideologically fractured worse than the Democrats were in 2017, but in a somewhat better place then the Democrats also were in 2017. In 2017, the Democrats had no bulk of power at all and they were divided between moderate and progressive tents, but in 2021, the Republicans were dangerously divided between the moderate and a more fascistic tent while holding strong minorities in both chambers of Congress while at the same time hold a narrow majority of governorships but good majorities of state legislative seats.

But the Democrats were united in their opposition against Trump than they were divided ideologically, helping them win back the House of Representatives by a good pickup of seats against a Republican President in the 2018 midterm elections. But the Republican Party by contrast was put in a problematic position when it turned out that one of their house members, Marjorie Taylor Greene, is not quite a normal person for a politician. Marjorie Taylor Greene is a follower of the radical extreme and psychotically far-right QAnon movement, she called for the assassinations of Democratic Party politicians and leaders, and she harassed survivors of school gun violence. Greene's presence in the Republican Party have threatened to ruin the party's chances in the 2022 U.S. midterm elections, though it seems like Republicans are blind to recognize the toxicity of Marjorie Taylor Greene and the party's hypocrisy on the idea of a party having psychotically radical faces slithering in their ranks. The Republicans blasted the Democrats for the presence of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib, four congresswomen who were collectively known as "the squad" and they were portrayed by the right-wing hemisphere as "part of the radical left", that they were mentally unhinged and that they were enablers of societal instability that erupted in the summer of the 2020 campaign, and believe or not, that narrative did play a mimic role in helping Republicans pick up around 13 house seats, all of which were competitive to slim Republican districts, from the Democratic Party though not enough for the Republicans to win back control of the U.S. House.

These four progressive women of color collected the name "the squad" from President Trump because he was offended by the fact that these were young, energetic, women of color from not-so-rich backgrounds calling for the policies overwhelmingly supported by the public according to public opinion statistics and what offends Trump even more is that these women dared fought to hold Trump accountable in a manner he was never hold before.

With the storming of the U.S. Capitol by right-wing extremists, which resulted in the death of a police officer, and the presence of right-wing crazies in the Republican Party caucus, and Trump and Republicans cast doubt on the 2020 election simply they lost, resulting in many Republicans to vote against the certification of results of swing states won by Biden subsequently earning themselves the name Sedition Caucus, the Republicans lost credibility on law and order issues, they lost the credibility to attack the Democrats as enablers of social unrest and crime, when they barely criticized the criminal violent invasion of the U.S. capitol by their own supporters.

Attempting to dodge accountability, the right-wing media's double standard between left-wing terrorism and right-wing terrorism was revealed, many of the right-wing media has either downplayed the siege of the capitol, denied it actually happened, or say it was another left-wing invasion disguised as a right-wing invasion to embarrass the name of American conservatism, the right-wing media also blamed other people but Trump and themselves, they played the what-about-this game towards left-wing violence as a diversion tactic to escape accountability.

A domestic terrorist attack on the United States federal government is far from legal, it is a very serious crime and involves 10+ up to 20+ years in custody depending on the severity of the charges under U.S. laws such as for example *18 U.S. Code - 2331*. U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, U.S. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and many other members of Congress and their leaders (likely many of whom are Democrats) were subjects of assassination threats. Alot of the rioters have faced the authorities and were prosecuted, which likely many of them were angry that Trump left office without pardoning them, which surprised but left both the left-wing and prosecutions relieved but defense teams disappointed or frustrated because they are now having to defend criminal cases that are obviously destined to be easily prosecuted.

Starting on January 21, 2021, with no power in Washington except the ability to divert and obstruct, the Republican Party seems confused about its own identity in a post-Trump era, appearing to be stuck between a rock and a hard place especially when talking about the 2022 midterm elections, balancing between energizing a radicalized base while winning back essential moderate voting blocs to regain its relevance again will not come easy for an opposition party.

In the 2022 midterm elections, the party allowed right-wing extremists to run in the midterms and used their state government monopoly to pass a hard conservative agenda with the thinking that the midterm history is on their side, but that thinking backfired as the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe and subsequently abortion rights in several states were rolled back as a consequence and the Republicans got beaten in the midterms while were still able to grab bare control of the U.S. House of Representatives with just their fingers. Democrats were left in control of the U.S. Senate and in stronger control of some state governments that most of the U.S. population now lives in firm blue states.

Since 2016, Donald Trump has ruled the Republican Party with an iron fist, but now the 2022 midterm results have threatened Trump's iron grip on the party.

## Information

### Cause

* Interparty ideological divisions
* Stiff Republican resistance
* A split U.S. Senate

### Result

Democratic success in the 2022 U.S. midterm elections despite losing the U.S. House (could change)* Successful passage of Biden's key agenda items through the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
* Democrats unify against the Dobbs regime
* Republican collapse in the 2022 U.S. midterm elections though a slim Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives is elected

Leaders and Commanders| * Joe Biden
* Kamala Harris
* Nancy Pelosi
* Pramila Jayapal (crossover from progressives)
* Bernie Sanders
* AOC
* Kyrsten Sinema

Unfortunately for the Democratic Party, the Biden presidency had not been going so well. Due to stiff Republican resistance, President Biden set a significantly modest record of legislative accomplishments from a Congress that is under full Democratic reign, plus, the U.S. economy getting weakened by inflation caused by pandemic-caused supply chain shortages, the Taliban siege of Afghanistan disrupting the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan into a clusterfuck, ending the U.S. War in Afghanistan for good in U.S. humiliation and the American general public had been disillusioned with Biden ever since. Constant state and local legislative defeats for state and local Democrats on issues of voting and reproductive rights and the eventual electoral defeats for Democrats in the 2021 U.S. state and local elections, especially in Virginia. Going into 2022, it was obviously a crateringly bad year for Biden and the Democrats, the effects of Inflation were too clear for the public, Biden's signature piece of legislation that would complete his Build Back Better agenda, the Build Back Better Act, crumbled when U.S. Senator from West Virginia, Joe Manchin, said he would not support it, and all of these crises overwhelmed the Biden presidency, weakened Democratic morale, and undermined public perception and public morale for President Biden but does create an opportunity for the morale for a change in political leadership, which all threatened Biden's reelection prospects since he made it clear that he is interested in running in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, facing him up against a potential rematch with former President Donald Trump who has his own election prospect risks, and speaking of which, there is a risk for Republicans to screw an opportunity to convince the country to change.

Starting in August 2022, Biden's presidency seemed to have experienced a turnaround from being perceived as an inadequate presidency to a presidency that could potentially succeed; the Democrats seeing their election prospects appearingly improving due to popular backlash against the overturning of *Roe v. Wade* and the Republican support for it costing the Republicans the slim prospects they originally had, alongside inflation easing despite continuing economic uncertainty, and the successful negotiation of Biden's chief agenda of climate action and healthcare reform resulting in the easy passage of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which borrowed provisions from Biden's dead Build Back Better legislation. The Republican Party now has the perception of being a right-wing extremist political party against a more moderate Democratic Party that just had a successful month of August 2022 of legislative success, having passed healthcare for U.S. veterans despite a backfired Republican blockade, a climate and healthcare bill, and inflation calming.

On August 23, 2022 in the U.S. State of New York, Democrats won their first U.S. house special election since the year had started, and in another special election in which Democrats lost, the vanquished Democrat lost with a higher share of the vote than the previous losing Democrat did in 2020. The Democratic victory in New York's 19th congressional district was expected to flip away to the Republicans, but the Democrats defied these predictions and in New York's 23rd congressional district, the Republicans held on that district but with weaker numbers after holding it in a landslide in 2020. These results, plus an anti-abortion law up for popular approval in Kansas which failed by the voters' will, suggested that the Republican Party's successful tide in their decades long crusade to influence the Supreme Court to end *Roe v. Wade* is appearing to have backfired on Republicans as Americans generally do not support the fall of Roe. It was also revealed that Republican U.S. Senate nominee, Herschel Walker had paid an ex-girlfriend to have an abortion which she did, but refused another abortion demanded by Walker; the ex-girlfriend wasn't having it with Walker's anti-abortion rhetoric as he runs to become U.S. Senator for the U.S. State of Georgia, so she contacted the media with proof of the abortion (a receipt, a get-well card from Walker, and a check from him). Walker attempted to lie himself out of the scandal as a sign that such a scandal makes him out to be a hypocrite, making matters worse, Walker's own son, Christian Walker, produced by marriage, said he was a deadbeat father who beats his mother and has several affairs and that he wasn't at home raising him. Christian Walker said these things despite being a popular social media personality on TikTok for the conservatives, an African-American gay gen Zer Republican who "owns the libs", Christian Walker coming out against his own father was a blow to Republicans on so many levels.

On August 31, 2022, it was declared that a Democrat has won Alaska's sole congressional district to fill the vacancy of late Republican representative Don Young. For a Democrat to win the only congressional district of the traditionally Republican state of Alaska was widely seen a colossal embarrassment for the Republican Party, especially in a midterm year widely expected to go Republican back in January 2022 due to the presence of a Democrat Commander-In-Chief occupying the White House, This will only add to the internal anxiety being felt inside the Republican Party and further boost morale within the Democratic Party and make Democratic Party insiders so excited about their party's chances in the midterm elections this November that they could hear their own heartbeats.

In October 2022, the Republicans began to make a comeback in the polls. Regaining the potentiality of a Republican Congress or just a Republican House of Representatives but a Democratic Senate leftover for the luck of the Democrats.

The Democratic Party had a history-defying successful midterm election, excluding losing the U.S. House of Representatives just only leniently than widely expected, the Democrats defended its majority in the U.S. Senate and may even expand its majority by only a seat, and Democrats gained ground in state governments which is a rare accomplishment for a party in the White House since 1934 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. What saved the Democrats from a political fall from grace was the unprecedented turnout of the Generation Z, the succeeding generation of the millennials who also voted for Democrats as well, this surge in youth turnout has something to do with anger with the ending of *Roe v. Wade* which for a half century protected abortion rights, as well as President Biden's pardoning of college student debt as well as the president's pardoning of federal marijuana charges, as well as environmental concerns over climate change amongst these two generations. Another reason why Democrats won was the fact that Republicans ran inadequate to in most cases extreme candidates who openly declared the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election to be illegitimate and they ran a campaign based on embracing democratic backsliding to avoid a repeat of the 2020 defeat for Republicans.

### The Republicans

On the Republican side, the Republican Party was still reeling from the contamination the Trump presidency had brought to the Republican brand especially after the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the Republican Party, now being too extreme to the right, risked blowing their chances of further weakening the Biden presidency with their still-contaminated brand that the Republicans clearly made little to no effort to repair and by being on the edge of successfully reaching their decades-long objectives of having *Roe v. Wade* overturned by the United States Supreme Court, defying public opinion which overwhelmingly favors many if not all abortion rights than not, potentially alienating moderate voters from the Republican Party and pushing away undecided voters into voting for the Democratic Party all out of concern for the societal impact of a post-Roe world, criminalizing abortion is not as simple as Republicans seem to think, Republicans will have to face stiff popular resistance not just from liberals and would have to content with unpleasant societal results of a nation where abortion is not allowed. This situation makes possible that President Biden could be the first U.S. President since President George W. Bush two decades prior to have won a midterm election. If this happens, it will bolster Biden's presidency at a time of desperate need, create much needed room and opportunity for the Democrats to pass significant legislation or a significant amount of their platform and oversee a potential 2023 upswing in the U.S. economy, which could put the whole party on good terms for the 2024 U.S. elections since a party led by an incumbent President up for reelection is risky for the opposition party to run against.

June 24, 2022 was the day *Roe v. Wade* was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, effectively rolling back a national right to abortion and threatened other birth control rights for American women. Unfortunately for Republicans, the party that opposes abortion, taking away abortion rights is not exactly one of the most popular things in the United States, this public opinion and the fall of Roe made it difficult for Republicans to celebrate the ruling without pissing off moderate voters in the process but some celebrated anyway, moderates may be concerned about restricting abortion too much. Popular reasons to support abortion is that rape, child sexual abuse, and forced incest are atrocities that exist in this world, and some Republican controlled states have already passed laws making abortion a crime even if the pregnancy was caused by child sexual abuse, rape, and incest, and defending such laws or even positions that rape victims must carry their rapist's child are universally seen as aligned with extremism and radicalism that alienates moderates that even some Republicans acknowledges that such statements would not be very popular with people with moderate views.

Democrats found a new enemy to rally against and were given an opportunity to turn the tide around in their favor despite a universally unpopular Democratic administration in the White House that even some Democrats have made efforts to distance themselves from. In late summer 2022, Republicans were again threatened by abortion as an issue once again when the case of a 10-year-old girl from Ohio was taken across state lines to Indiana to have abortion after she was molested, and when the story was leaked to the national media, Republicans outright rejected as false, only for the Columbus Police Department to show proof that they have arrested the molester, a 27-year-old, and placed the Republican Party in an embarrassing position as their anti-abortion laws are now put into scrutiny that some are maybe talking about moderating them to add exemptions for rape and incest, which would surely alienate fanatic pro-lifers but appease moderate pro-lifers, dividing the pro-life movement against each other.

Republicans had lackluster results in August 23's special elections for Congress, failing to flip New York's 19th congressional district and held on to New York's 23rd congressional district by a weaker margin. These two New York election results and the past Kansas anti-abortion referendum have shown Republicans that their victory in the U,S. Supreme Court has threatened the party's midterm prospects and also threatened to have their decades-long hard fought victory in influencing the Supreme Court to end Roe to be bulldozed by a hypothetically stronger Democratic Party-led Congress, rolling back the progress the American pro-life movement have made throughout the years and that would make all these years of activism done for nothing. Adding insult to injury, Alaska's statewide congressional district has flipped from Republican to Democratic in a special election in August, and Joe Biden didn't even won Alaska in 2020, this makes Republicans biting their nails so much about the midterms that they're running out of nails to bite on, a phrase CNN newswoman Dana Bash used to describe Democratic anxiety when the Democrats realized they're going to lose the 2016 elections that night.

In October 2022, polls began to suggest that Republicans may actually win the midterms after all. Inflation once again being a major issue and abortion being sidelined, which was something Republicans had wanted to see happen since Roe was overturned. However, there were still damages left behind by Roe's downfall, one is that voter registration ticked up in favor of Democrats because of the fall of Roe, meaning Republicans will must deal with voters they unintentionally motivated to vote against them, something the Democratic Party could not do themselves, therefore Republicans, though may still come out victorious in the midterms, will still have to wrestle with high Democratic turnout in critical races, this means very close elections in ultimately deciding races that by historical standards aren't supposed to be close at all, and a recent data showed more Republicans have died from COVID-19 than Democrats, suggesting that the Republican downplaying of the COVID-19 pandemic may hold the risk of returning to haunt the Republicans, this high number of Republican deaths to COVID may explain why the results of the 2021 U.S. governor elections and the polls for Congress have been unusually close for a midterm election cycle.

Forecasts now predict a split Congress, a Democrat Senate and Republican House, though October statistics have Republicans on stronger grounds.

Republicans collapsed in the midterms, they got beaten in the U.S. Senate and state governments but only managed to complete their prolonged and tougher than expected quest to nail-grab a narrow majority in the U.S. House of Representatives from the Democrats. Republicans failed to make the midterm elections a referendum on President Biden and their nationalization of the midterm elections backfired as they ran candidates who openly declared Biden's 2020 victory as illegitimate and consequently questioned American democracy even though they're participating in it by running for office, the Republicans underestimated the risk of overturning *Roe v. Wade* and blindly underestimated youth turnout as it is a known fact that Republicans are widely unpopular compared to Democrats with young Americans.

### 2022 Midterm Elections

On November 8, 2022, the Democratic Party shocked the nation with a better than expected showing, successfully quelling a what is known as a "red wave" and played successful defense of vulnerable incumbents. Democrats lost their trifecta, making the party handicapped from enacting legislation to advance Biden's agenda, but this is the first midterm election since the one in 2002 under President George W. Bush in which an opposition wave was averted, Democrats increased their hand in the Senate, giving the party the ability to appoint federal judges handpicked by Biden and give Biden the luxury to govern, and as for the House of Representatives, Republicans won the majority, but it is more thinner and unstable than expected, in fact, embarrassingly, the composition of the Republican' narrow majority was the same as the Democrats' recent majority, which was 222-213. Democrats expanded their influence over state governments, gaining governorships (only two) and state legislative chambers.

President Joe Biden may become the first President since Franklin D. Roosevelt to be known as the President who had unseated a fellow President and have blocked the opposition from winning a midterm election through a wave. Democrats had all their Senate incumbents reelected and defended every open seat while flipping a Republican seat, and expanding their hand in state governments, while at the end, still losing control of the U.S. House of Representatives, but Democratic overperformance in the midterms affected the race there too, Democrats only slightly lost control of the U.S. House of Representatives, winning a thin majority of 222-213 seats.

For six years, Donald Trump had ruled the Republican Party with an iron fist, but the 2022 midterm disaster had made Trump's grip on the party more slippery. Biden's 2022 midterm success gave him the complete freedom to fully make a decision whether to run again for President.

### Republican Civil War (2022-ongoing)

> *This is the succeeding interparty conflict of the Democrats' own schism from 2021 to 2023*
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### Cause

* Republican failure in the 2022 U.S. midterm elections
* Donald Trump enters the 2024 presidential race

Donald Trump and his supporters took over the Republican Party in 2016 during the presidential election that year and won the White House and helped Republicans retained control of Congress by a comfortable margin in a stunning upset against the Democrats, but the four years of the single-term Trump presidency was tumultuous, frequent scandal, legislative failures, a failed midterm election in 2018, gridlock in 2019 which resulted in impeachment proceedings against Trump that year, and then another presidential election in 2020, but Trump faced the COVID-19 pandemic and he wanted no interest in even addressing it despite it was killing so many Americans and its impact was unavoidable, then came outrage and protests over the police killing of George Floyd, a black man killed by police officers in Minneapolis, its fallout was enormous, and Trump's failures at crisis management towards these crises made Trump unpopular and it cost him and his party the White House and Congress in 2020, but Trump refused to accept defeat and after numerous attempts to overturn the election results but to avail, he sent an angry mob to storm the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from making Trump's defeat official, but the insurrection failed and nothing changed, Trump was impeached again and he backlash and disgrace as a result and he left office in historically poor shape for a departing President in 2021.

Seeking to remain relevant in Republican Party politics, Donald Trump involved himself by recruiting and endorsing candidates into the primaries of the U.S. Republican Party to choose candidates to face Democrats in the 2022 U.S. midterm elections. With a Democrat in the White House and a poor direction for the country under that president, the 2022 U.S. midterm elections was supposed to be midterm election that the Democratic Party gets destroyed or just defeated outright, but Trump's candidates mostly prevailed in primaries and begin to stoke the flames of distrust in the results of the 2020 presidential election and campaigned on questioning American democracy out of fear of widespread voter fraud, not to mention that Republicans used their monopoly over state governments to enhance an aggressive conservative agenda by restricting voting, LGBT, and abortion rights, went after LGBT students, banned books that Republicans disagreed with, and tried to restrict the teaching of U.S. history. The final nail to the Republicans' political coffin was the U.S. Supreme Court stacked by a strong conservative majority by Trump deciding to overturn a near 50-year precedent called *Roe v. Wade* which gave the U.S. federal government the obligation to protect a woman's right to an abortion over the objection of state governments, by overturning Roe, state governments were once again allowed to restrict abortion as they saw fit, and conservative state governments made their move, telling women that they are no longer allowed to make decisions about their bodies.

Trump's candidates and anger at the fall of Roe screwed the Republicans over in the midterm elections for a historic humiliation not many opposition parties get in midterms. An anticipated Republican wave failed to hold true and instead saw the Democratic Party performing weirdly competitive for a presidential party that they ended up holding on their majority with ease in the U.S. Senate, crucial for their continuing bid to stack the U.S. judiciary with liberal judges, and the Democrats gained ground in state governments, most notably the offices of Secretaries of State whose responsibility is to operate elections in their respective states including in a presidential race, which is a stinging blow to election deniers. The Democrats were so competitive that even when the party still lost control of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Democrats were pretty competitive and the Republicans were forced to deal with the headache of a really weak majority in the lower chamber of Congress.

In the gubernatorial elections in 2022, all of Trump's major candidates were defeated, Doug Mastriano of Pennsylvania was defeated by Democrat Josh Shapiro in a landslide, Tudor Dixon of Michigan was blown out by incumbent Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Dixon's defeat was so hollow that it cost the Republicans control of the Michigan Legislature, giving Whitmer the ability to rule Michigan with a Democratic trifecta, the first time that a Democratic governor of Michigan will be able to do so in 40 years. Trump's Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Tim Michels slipped to defeat to Governor Tony Evers. In secretaries of state, the people who are in charge of elections, Trump's candidates there have all faltered in states that will matter in the 2024 presidential election, denying Trump the ability to steal the 2024 presidential election by influencing secretaries of state. With no secretary of state in a key 2024 state under Trump's grasp, Trump is forced in a position where he'll have through the voters to become President again.

In one gubernatorial election where Republicans shined, Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida sweeps his state with his weak Democratic challenger Charlie Crist, taking 59% of the vote, even a strong majority of Hispanic voters, a traditionally Democratic-friendly bloc, over Crist's 40%, a 19 point margin at least approximately, and Florida Republicans rode on DeSantis' coattails and won landslides cross the state and up and down the Florida ballot, impressing conservatives who are so distraught with the historically embarrassing Republican performance in a midterm election under a Democratic President who's approval ratings are in the low 40s due to presiding over a country that is wounded by high inflation, an unstable U.S.-Mexico border, and uncontrollable crime waves. This made Donald Trump jealous of DeSantis and the surging possibility that DeSantis could run for President in 2024 and take the Republican Party from Trump made him terrified. Fearful of DeSantis, Trump repeatedly insulted and smeared DeSantis on social media at every given opportunity and the MAGA movement begin to experience a schism as a result, which could strengthen a Biden reelection as Biden was already showing constant signs that he will attempt to score term number two despite his incredibly advanced age of 80.

### Affects on Chawosaurian Foreign Policy

For Chawosauria, the downturn in the Biden presidency, the perception amongst Chawosaurians that President Biden couldn't seem to control his own country and that he's only making more enemies than friends did not sit well for Shang Jong Parker's popularity even that Parker was very much in favor of a Biden presidency, and it didn't help so much that in a blow to Shang Jong Parker, President Biden at a press conference about Cuba has made public statements about socialism which he rebukes the ideology and communism, provoking a response from Shang Jong Parker. Parker had been entangled into his own problems at home, the Chawo-Uralic War caused by the Ural Wall, and the Chawo-Ukraine Airlift Disaster during the first month of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

## Analysis

The 2020 election in the United States provided Chawosauria what Britain didn't in 2019, rejecting right-wing extremism. When Chawosauria lost the Brexit war, the Chawosaurian government considered not demonstrating interest in the 2020 U.S. presidential election due to the chance that President Trump could get reelected. Eventually by October, Chawosauria did calculate that Trump's reelection chances are slim to none, making the political higherups of Chawosauria comfortable enough to go all in outright on Joe Biden's behalf.

## See also

* Chawosauria in the 2016 United States Presidential Election