Over the horizon, there is a rogue state hellbent on imposing its own nihilistic fundamentalist vision on the free world. A totalitarian society brutally repressive of women. A police state cracking down on all visible forms of dissent. A destabilizing force empowering nuclear-armed terrorists around the world.
Nikki Haley is committed to saving that nation.
Amidst a dismal economy and entrenched corruption that starves its own people, in 2023, the nation's decrepit puppet leader was shuffled away from the public in a palace coup. Having lost all political legitimacy, his untested heir is running in this sham election. Only Nikki Haley can liberate the American people now.\", \"image_url\": \"https://i.imgur.com/dh5s0gm.png\", \"winning_electoral_vote_number\": 270, \"advisor_url\": \"https://i.imgur.com/ujgelSi.jpeg\", \"recommended_reading\": \"
Until his shocking fatal heart attack in 2022, Donald Trump was widely assumed to be the next Republican presidential nominee. In the wake of his sudden absence, a power vacuum emerged, with varying factions of the party competing to fill it. During these brutal primaries, former South Carolina Governor and UN Ambassador, Nikki Haley, triumphed over her more right-wing rivals. A staunch free market interventionist, Haley's neo-conservatism was thought to be out of touch in a post-globalization world.
Yet in a field bereft of all political talent, this mediocre former governor has seized the Republican Party's mantle and seeks to return the American conservative movement to its interventionist roots. In a dangerous world with wars raging in Europe, the Middle East, and a Cold War in the Pacific, Haley will argue that she is the only way to ensure the 21st century remains an American century.
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With your victory, you’re now poised to deliver peace in Vietnam, reform the Great Society, and chart America’s path through the waning years of the 60’s.
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While you still have your remaining term as Governor to fill out, you promised your Lieutenant Governor that you would resign if you lost, and he seems keen to keep you to that promise. So long, George.
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You and Humphrey are sure to come to an accommodation based on whoever won the popular vote, and you both are committed to denying Wallace any leverage whatsoever. Unfortunately, whoever comes out on top is likely to have their political influence castrated by the whole affair. Let’s hope it’s you, George.
\", \"description_as_running_mate\": null, \"candidate_score\": 0.666}}, {\"model\": \"campaign_trail.candidate\", \"pk\": 24, \"fields\": {\"first_name\": \"Kamala\", \"last_name\": \"Harris\", \"election\": 4, \"party\": \"Democrat\", \"state\": \"California\", \"priority\": 2, \"description\": \"If you ask her political advisors, the vice president's closest aides will tell you behind closed doors that she is on track for a generational defeat. Yet if you ask the Vice President herself about her prospects in this year's unprecedented presidential election, Kamala Harris will laugh right in your face. Plagued by doubts surrounding her capabilities since being added to Joe Biden's ticket in 2020, after his shocking announcement that he would not seek re-election in 2024, Harris' chances are all but doomed. With Biden's declining health, he is seen as little more than a figurehead for his advisors, cratering any sense of public confidence in the White House.
Kamala Harris sees none of this. To her, the nation remains within her grasp. Despite a miserable economy verging on recession, a lack of a coherent domestic policy agenda, and multiple ongoing wars, Harris has no doubts in the American people's judgment. Advisors wonder if she knows something they don't.
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The best you can do for now is continue to sound the call for a return to sanity in American politics and reclaim your seat as governor of Alabama. Perhaps if the riots and discord continue, you will have a better chance of making your voice heard in 1972.
\", \"no_electoral_majority_message\": \"While it’s very impressive that you got this far, this is only half the battle. With a Democratically controlled House and Senate, it’s either going to be you or McCarthy.
Of course, you still have to deal with the possibility that McCarthy and Nixon dislike you so much that they will simply strike a deal with each other. Whatever happens, it's sure to be interesting.
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The best you can do for now is continue to sound the call for civil rights in America and retain your seat in the senate. Perhaps you will have a better chance of making your voice heard in 1972.
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Folks were hoping for a sharp reversal from the landslide of ‘64, but you just weren’t up for it. Republican pols are despondent that you lost such a favorable election, especially after Humphrey’s polling in the wake of the Chicago fiasco..
While you still have your remaining term as Governor to fill out, you promised your Lieutenant Governor that you would resign if you lost, and he seems keen to keep you to that promise. So long, George.
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\", \"description_as_running_mate\": \"Once a rising star in the Republican Party, Florida Senator Marco Rubio's career crested with his work shaping the Trump administration's Latin America policy. Engineering coup attempts and imposing crushing sanctions on a host of countries, Rubio slapped a new paint job over American interventionism, rebranding it for the age of the new right. Yet since Trump's abrupt departure from the political arena, Rubio has drifted, even contemplating leaving the senate.
Haley's selection of Rubio as her running mate would solidify existing perceptions of the ticket as a neoconservative renaissance, and threats against China, Russia, and Iran would likely dominate the campaign. Yet all other issues would be ignored. Rubio toes the line on abortion, inflation, and immigration enough to keep the disenchanted right-wing in line, yet his anemic campaigning style and lack of charisma will likely be a drag on the ticket.
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Folks were hoping for a sharp reversal from the landslide of ‘64, but you just weren’t up for it. Republican pols are despondent that you lost such a favorable election, especially after Humphrey’s polling in the wake of the Chicago fiasco..
While you still have your remaining term as Governor to fill out, you promised your Lieutenant Governor that you would resign if you lost, and he seems keen to keep you to that promise. So long, George.
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You and Humphrey are sure to come to an accommodation based on whoever won the popular vote, and you both are committed to denying Wallace any leverage whatsoever. Unfortunately, whoever comes out on top is likely to have their political influence castrated by the whole affair. Let’s hope it’s you, George.
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Geographically, Cotton brings little to the ticket, as Haley already has much of the former Confederacy locked up. Yet the Arkansas Senator would solidify her interventionist foreign policy credentials, while potentially appealing to military voters, even if his strategy on war with Iran is questionable.
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After winning the Virginia gubernatorial election in 2021, Youngkin has been seen as the future of the Republican Party, being just Trumpy enough for MAGA voters while still making a few concessions palatable to suburban Republicans. His stances on education and abortion have been particularly contentious, yet despite early hopes, successive legislative and electoral failures have kneecapped many of Youngkin's most optimistic plans. Youngkin's selection would be expected for a Haley presidential ticket, but he may be past his prime.
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\", \"description_as_running_mate\": \"A Yale graduate, CNN contributor, writer for The Atlantic, and author of a New York Times bestseller optioned by Netflix, J.D. Vance's old friends wonder why he's casting himself as a crusading populist. Lavishly praised by liberals seeking an answer to Trump's election, Vance made his name cashing in on the hollowing out of the rural areas he insists on reminding everyone he's from. With his close yet still murky ties to big pharma, Vance has at once criticized Trump as a \'cultural heroin\' for the masses while partnering with the producers of actual heroin for the masses.
Ruthlessly ambitious, Vance quickly rebranded himself as a heartland-whisperer in the likes of Trump, coasting on his name to barely win an open Ohio senate seat in 2022. Since then, Vance has attempted to pick up the anti-interventionist flag in his war against \'boomer neocons\' while remaining slavishly devoted to Israel and hawkish on China. Vance's selection would endear Haley to MAGA voters while giving a wink to donors rolling their eyes.
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However the anti-war, liberal wing of the party will surely recoil at this selection.
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