2016 United States Presidential Election (Putin's Ambition)

The 2016 United States Presidential Election occurred on November 8th, 2016 and was considered a very decisive election.

World War 3
Due to World War 3 raging on, the 2012 elections were suspended and Baldwin served his second term unopposed. 2016 Campaigning started later than most campaigns as the election was confirmed to be happening after the Treaty of Cape May.

Richard Ojeda
Richard Ojeda was a major in the Third World War and Senator from West Virginia, he announced his run for the Presidency in January of 2016. Ojeda's progressive grassroots and mid-west appeal is credited to many for his win in the 2016 Election.

Rick Larsen
Rick Larsen became the nominee for the Democrat Party and he beat both Martin O'Malley and Joe Biden for the nomination. Rick Larsen ran on a centre-left political policy and campaigned on a "return to normalcy". Rick Larsen was forced to fight an uphill battle against both the sour legacy of Obama and the popular Progressive Democrat Party which took much of the progressive wing from the DNC.

Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton became the Republican nominee for the 2016 election. Clinton is part of the centrist wing of the Republican Party and has called for "bipartisanship between Democrats and Republicans" against what he calls "radical parties" such as the Progressive Democrats, the Libertarian Party, and the White American People's Party.

Adam Kokesh
Kokesh is an extreme Libertarian who gained traction due to his anti-war activism. Kokesh blamed the Federal Government for the suffering in World War 3 and called for a "orderly dissolution of the Federal Government". Such rhetoric gained popularity with the shortcomings of the Federal Government during World War 3, leaving many believing the Federal Government was an ineffective system which only created massive amounts of debt.

Lana Lokteff
White Nationalist sentiment became popular during and after WW3. This was due to many white nationalists seeing World War 3 as an "attack on White America" as many of the nations invading the U.S were non-white - like China and India. Such a mentality was very prominent among states such as Wyoming and other western states. Lana Lokteff originally had no intentions of running for President, but the death of her husband Henrik in World War 3 led to her running for President. The White American People's party was formed and she chose Richard Spencer as her running mate.

Republican Primaries
Many candidates entered the ring to take a swing at the GOP nomination. The GOP was divided more than ever before between staunch conservatives such as Mike Huckabee, Centrists like Bill Clinton, and somewhat liberal candidates such as Dawn Addiego. Early on in late 2015, many political annalists called the 2016 Republican Primaries as a "potential bloodbath". The results of the primaries followed:

Democratic Primaries
Many democrats sought the nomination for the 2016 Election, one of them being incumbent President Barack Obama, but Obama inevitably lost to popular democrat Rick Larsen. Newcomers such as Andrew Yang, Phil Murphy, and Mark Sokolich also ran for the position. Incumbent President Obama failed to win the Primaries due to his association with the extremely unpopular Baldwin administration, the first time this has occurred since James Buchanan. Soon it became clear that the contest would be between Andrew Yang and Rick Larsen. The contest between Yang and Larsen was very intense, but by the last super Tuesday of the primaries, it was clear that Larsen was the presumptive democratic nominee. He chose Governor of Louisiana John Bel Edwards as his running mate. Yang did not endorse Larsen, which many took as Yang splitting the democrat vote or deliberately sabotaging Larsen's presidential ambitions.

Results
Richard Ojeda won both the Electoral and Popular vote - although no candidate won 270 votes due to the divide among the five parties. As a result, since Ojeda had the most with 235, he was elected President of the United States.

Protests Against Ojeda
"'On this night, Jewry has won!' - Lana Lokteff (on Richard Ojeda's victory)"With the victory of Progressive Candidate Richard Ojeda in 2016, several people of several political parties protested his Presidency. These protests have continued to this day, some more violent than others.

Idaho Voting Scandal
Republican Candidate Bill Clinton won the GOP stronghold state by over 53% of the popular vote and all of the electoral votes. It was later revealed that Idaho Governor and Wife of Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, may have played a roll in rigging the Idaho elections in favor of her husband. It also was brought into concern that Hillary may have rigged the Republican Primaries in Idaho also in favor of Bill Clinton. The investigation went on and by March 7th, 2017; the FBI concluded that Hillary did not rig the elections in Idaho in favor of Bill and that the election results in Idaho were: The Idaho Voting Scandal was considered by many to be proof of hysteria existing within post war America, many believing that the Russians and Chinese have corrupted U.S Democracy and subverted it to fit their totalitarian narratives.

Battle of Charlottesville (2017)
The Battle of Charlottesville was an armed conflict lasting two days between members of the White American People's Party and the Federal Government along with anti-fascists counter-protesters. Day 1 resulted in White Nationalists marching on the University of Virginia Campus. Counter-protesters showed up and clashes became violent. By the end of August 11th, three people lay dead from the violent protests, one of them was Lana Lokteff, leader and co-organizer of the rally. This outraged White Nationalists and the counter-protestors, the rally was eventually broken up by the Federal Government and CSTO occupation forces.