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We Can Do Better was a campaign slogan for John F. Kennedy in 1960. In this timeline, it will be revived by his son in the 2016 presidential election. Inside joke since "we can do better" than the two terrible candidates we received in the OTL 2016 election.

List of Presidents of the United States

 * John F. Kennedy, Sr. (1961-1963)
 * Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969)
 * Richard M. Nixon (1969-1974)
 * John Connally (1974-1977)
 * ??? (1977-2009)
 * Barack Obama (2009-2017)
 * John F. Kennedy (president elect)

John F. Kennedy, Jr.
After the retirement of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, John F. Kennedy, Jr. runs for the seat his uncle Robert F. Kennedy once held. Kennedy defeats his Republican opponent, Rick Lazio, and served in the Senate for 16 years until winning the presidential election of 2016. Kennedy resigned the seat on December 31, 2016, allowing Governor Cuomo to name his replacement.

United States presidential election, 2016
The United States presidential election of 2016 was the 58th and most recent quadrennial American presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. The Democratic Party nominee, Senator John F. Kennedy, Jr., and his running mate, Governor of Missouri Jay Nixon, defeated the Democratic Party nominee, Republican Party nominee, businessman Donald Trump, and his running mate, Governor of Indiana Mike Pence. The US Elections Project estimates that 131.7 million Americans cast a ballot in 2016, out of 231 million eligible voters—a turnout rate of 56.9 percent.

Voters selected presidential electors, who in turn will vote, based on the results of their jurisdiction, for a new president and vice president through the Electoral College on December 19, 2016. Kennedy is expected to take office as the ####th President on January 20, 2017; Nixon is expected to take office as the ###th Vice President.

The series of presidential primary elections and caucuses took place between February and June 2016, staggered among the 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. This nominating process was also an indirect election, where voters cast ballots for a slate of delegates to a political party's nominating convention, who in turn elected their party's presidential nominee. Businessman and reality television personality Donald Trump became the Republican Party's presidential nominee on July 19, 2016, after defeating U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, and 15 other major candidates in the Republican primary elections. U.S. Senator from New York John F. Kennedy, Jr. became the Democratic Party's presidential nominee on July 26, 2016, after defeating ???, ???, and ???.

A total of 29 third party and independent presidential candidates appeared on the ballot in at least one state. Former Governor of New Mexico Gary Johnson and physician Jill Stein repeated their 2012 roles as the nominees for the Libertarian Party and Green Party, respectively. With ballot access to the entire electoral college, Johnson won 3.2 million votes. Stein won 1.2 million votes, the most for a Green nominee since Ralph Nader in 2000. Independent Evan McMullin entered the race in hopes of being a spoiler to Trump, planning to split the vote in his home state of Utah, he managed 20 percent of its total votes.

By late in the night of November 8, 2016, initial vote counts indicated that John F. Kennedy, Jr. was projected to obtain over 270 electoral votes, a majority of the 538 electors in the electoral college required to make him the president-elect of the United States. Kennedy was highly favored by most polls conducted in the days and weeks leading up to the election and defeated Trump in the popular vote and the electoral college, winning 339 electoral votes, 7 more than President Obama did in 2012. Kennedy carried all states Obama carried in 2012 except Ohio, while picking up North Carolina and Missouri.

This was the first time since 19?? when a party won three consecutive presidential elections. It was also the first time since 1944 where both major party candidates were from the same state. The 1944 candidates were also both from New York. Kennedy became the second president to be the son of a previous president, the first being John Q. Adams, while also being the third president to be related to a predecessor, the other two being Adams again and Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was related to Theodore Roosevelt. Kennedy became the fifth president from New York after Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Kennedy became the third sitting Senator to become President after his father, John F. Kennedy, and his immediate predecessor, John F. Kennedy.

Democratic Party
Potential Kennedy VP candidates
 * Jason Carter, Governor of Georgia, grandson of Jimmy Carter (2015-present)
 * John Edwards, United States Senator from North Carolina (1990-present)
 * Jay Nixon, Governor of Missouri (2009-present)
 * Hillary Clinton, United States Senator from Arkansas (1997-present)
 * Bill Nelson, United States Senator from Florida (2001-present)

United States Senate elections, 2016

 * Alabama: Richard Shelby vs Ron Crumpton
 * Alaska: Lisa Murkowski vs Ray Metcalfe
 * Arizona: John McCain vs Ann Kirkpatrick
 * Arkansas: Blanche Lincoln vs Jim Holt
 * California: Kamala Harris vs Lorreta Sanchez
 * Colorado: Michael Bennet vs Darryl Glenn
 * Illinois: Tammy Duckworth vs Mark Kirk
 * Indiana: Evan Bayh vs Todd Young
 * Missouri: Jason Kander vs Roy Blunt
 * Nevada: Catherine Cortez Masto vs Joe Heck
 * New Hampshire: Maggie Hassan vs Kelly Ayotte
 * North Carolina: John Edwards vs ???
 * Pennsylvania: Katie McGinty vs Pat Toomey
 * Wisconsin: Russ Feingold vs Scott Walker