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After Biden was sworn in, the Senate voted to convict Donald Trump. Democrats would offer Mitch and Establishment Republicans the opportunity to keep the filibuster and to not admit DC as a State. Mitch McConnell would accept & would vote to convict Trump by managing to reach the 2/3th threshold. Senators who opposed convicting former President Trump would leave the GOP and form their own Party: the ''America First'' Party, which would caucus with Republicans. By 2022 COVID-19 would be destroyed and a vaccine would be taken by the majority of the population. President Biden would repeal the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, deploy more troops overseas, introduce basic background checks for gun ownership and work to phase out fracking by 2035. In 2021, US would register GDP growth of -3.8% and in 2022 +2.0%. Republicans would win the House in 2022 Midterms (AF made great gains in more populist, Trumpian areas) , while Dems would keep the Senate. In April 2022, Joseph Biden would die with a stroke and Vice President Kamala Harris would become President of the United States. On one hand, many were upset about President's death. On the other, many people celebrated ''the first woman of colour elected President''. The United States would grow by +4.3% in 2023. However, trade deficit with the US grew even more and riots - left-wing (BLM, Antifa, etc.) and right-wing (Trump supporters that did not recognize the result of the 2020 Election) were increasing.

2024 U.S. Election

Kamala Harris would win the Democratic Nomination easily. She would be challanged by left-wing Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez. Harris would win 60.5% in South Carolina, 70.1% in Iowa, 60% in and 90% in New Hampshire. AOC would drop out of the race and seek the Green nomination instead (which she won). There would be a lot of speculation about who would be the nominee of a divided Republican Party. Senator Josh Hawley would announce he would run in the America First party primary. Ultimately, he ran as a Republican. Senator Rand Paul would also run in the GOP primary hoping to create a grassroots movement as successful as his father's one in 2012. Mitch McConnell would run a presidential campaign with many questioning his age. Former Governor and Diplomat Nikki Halley would also seek the nomination. Mitch would perform badly getting in fourth place. However Nikki Halley would drop out after first states have voted because of personal issues. Senator Paul not being allowed into the second primary debate would raise complaints of bias, so he would drop out and run as a Libertarian instead (like Gary Johnson in 2012) where he would face his socially progressive counter parts. The race was very close and it was decided by super delegates (Mitch would win). Mitch McConnell would become the oldest nominee of a major Party in history. The ''America First'' Party would reward Josh Hawley the nomination. Senator Rand Paul and Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez would win the Libertarian and the Green nominations respectively. Third parties would gain massive media coverage as ranked-choice voting was allowed in 40 States. Kamala Harris would have three main choices for VP: Cory Booker , Andrew Cuomo Pete Buttigieg. The DNC would have chosen Pete Buttigieg (since nominating two people of colour would be a bit much), first LGBTQ+ vice presidential nominee for a major Party in History of the country. Mitch McConnell would have appointed Lisa Murkowski , a moderate from Alaska, as the vice presidential nominee. Senator Josh Hawley would appoint Ted Cruz as Vice President. Senator Rand Paul would appoint Former Representative Justin Amash from Michigan as his VP pick and AOC would choose Ajamu Baraka, the 2016 Green VP pick. Topics of this election would include rising crime rates and riots, economy, immigration and foreign policy (tension with Russia and China was never so high since the Cold War). Hawley would run a right-wing populist campaign with some few leftist tenets, especially when it comes to care for the elderly, anti-trust legislation and international trade. McConnell would present himself as a transition candidate. Kamala Harris would run a campaign supporting social welfare and corporate finance controls with otherwise strong business rights as well as a strong State that promotes progressive values and harshly punishes crime. The first debate would include Kamala Harris, Mitch McConnell and Josh Hawley. Harris and Hawley would both be dominant in the debate, while McConnell was seen struggling (think of James Stockdale's performance in the 1992 VP debate). In some polls, McConnell was polling third while Paul was polling as high as 10%. After the Vice Presidential Debate however, McConnell's campaign would recover and win second place in polls again. Election Day. Extreme vote splitting among the right-wing side of the country, ultimately rewarding Harris the Presidency with 443 electoral votes against McConnell's 48 and Hawley's 47. The election saw an interesting trend, with the West becoming more democratic and the East becoming more Republican

The election ended up looking this way

Kamala Harris 445 | 47.1%

Mitch McConnell 48 | 20.1%

Josh Hawley 47 | 24.7%

Rand Paul 0 | 5.1%

Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez 0 | 3.0%

Kamala Harris is projected to stay the 47th President of U.S.A.

(NOTE: This is highly speculative and some of it can be unrealistic)