2018 Presidential Election
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There is only one outcome to a Seaborn/Duke contest that we will enjoy.
Yeah you're right. You guys are writing a great story and we look forward to seeing it play out.
Question, does the Westboro Baptist Church (or some version of it) exist ITTL and if they do, can Duke count on their endorsement?
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Oh Good! And I'm sure Duke of all people can count on their endorsement.
This timeline is nothing like OTL guys,he is not going to win,what happens in OTL not happens here for all I see of this thread these years.
Churches in the United States lose their tax-exempt status if they endorse political candidates. The WBC say and do some completely insane things, but they're also careful to be scrupulously legal in their protests, which is how they've been able to do it for so long without getting shut down.
Plus, these guys love protesting the funerals of American soldiers killed in action. Say what you will about Duke, but like most people who have served in Congress since 1930, he genuinely supports the US military and service members (even if he doesn't like certain service members' "lifestyle choices"), and probably issued several statements condemning the WBC during his time in Congress.
2022 Labour Deputy Leadership election
| Candidates first needed to be nominated by at least 10% (27) of current Labour MPs & MEPs, who comprise the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) and the European Parliamentary Labour Party (EPLP). | ||||||
| *255 MPs & 16 EPLPs* | ||||||
| Candidate | First round | Second Round | Third Round | |||
| Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | |
| Victoria Thorpe | 192,168 | 41.68% | 220,698 | 48.94% | 227,944 | 52.35% |
| Alison Aldred | 90,053 | 19.53% | 92,049 | 20.41% | 111,858 | 25.69% |
| William Turnbull | 77,351 | 16.78% | 80,664 | 17.89% | 95,643 | 21.96% |
| Larry Blackheath | 61,179 | 13.27% | 57,560 | 12.76% | Eliminated | |
| Sandra Daniels | 40,255 | 8.73% | Eliminated | |||
| 461,006 | 450,971 | 435,445 |
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BREAKING: Duke wins Georgia primary
NBS can report that former Oklahoma senator Alan Duke has won the Georgia Republican primary, meaning he will have to win only one of the six remaining primaries to become the Republican Party's presumptive nominee.
With 3% of the vote in, NBS can project that Duke will defeat both Jasper Irving (IL) and Ruth Norton-Stewart (OH) with an estimated 45% of the vote. The addition of Georgia's 75 delegates puts Duke at 1,219 delegates to the Republican National Convention, 26 shy of being assured of the party's nomination.
There is only one other primary tonight, in Pennsylvania, where the winner will get 68 delegates. Polls will close there momentarily. Duke's lead is much narrower there than in Georgia, which he was widely expected to win, and a strong push by the Irving campaign has seen positive movement in their candidate's direction.
Alan Duke (OK): 1,219 delegates (need 26 to win)
Jasper Irving (IL): 720 delegates
Ruth Norton-Stewart (OH): 322 delegates
BREAKING: Duke wins Pennsylvania primary, becomes GOP presumptive nominee
Alan Duke has won the Republican Party's Pennsylvania primary and with it, the Republican nomination.
NBS exit polling indicates that Duke will win an estimated 40% of the vote, with his nearest opponent, taking all of Pennsylvania's delegates and crossing the 1,245 delegate total needed to guarantee a first-ballot victory at the party convention.
Alan Duke (OK): 1,287 delegates -- presumptive nominee
Jasper Irving (IL): 720 delegates
Ruth Norton-Stewart (OH): 322 delegates
Projected primary results
Georgia (68 delegates)
Alan Duke: 601,500 (45.91%)
Ruth Norton-Stewart: 365,602 (27.90%)
Jasper Irving: 343,066 (26.18%)
Pennsylvania (68 delegates)
Alan Duke: 679,846 (42.25%)
Jasper Irving: 534,327 (33.21%)
Ruth Norton-Stewart: 394,889 (24.54%)
Primary Results (end of April primaries)
Alan Duke (OK): 11,131,062 votes (36.21%) --- 1,287 delegates
Jasper Irving (IL): 9,955,540 votes (32.35%) --- 720 delegates
Ruth Norton-Stewart (OH): 8,901, 198 votes (28.93%) --- 322 delegates
other candidates: 784,000 votes (2.51%) --- 0 delegates
Duke becomes presumptive nominee, pledges to "retake America"
Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
Former senator Alan Duke (OK) clinched the Republican Party's presidential nomination tonight with victories in the Georgia and Pennsylvania primaries, capping a stunning political change of fortunes.
While votes are still being tallied in both states, NBS and other new media organizations called both states' Republican primaries for Duke earlier tonight, putting the firebrand conservative over the 1,246 delegate threshold needed to secure a first-ballot nomination at the Republican National Convention in July.
Duke, speaking at a victory rally at his campaign headquarters in Oklahoma City, thanked his supporters and pledged to "retake America."
"Our campaign to retake America begins in earnest here," Duke said. "We will retake America for the people who made it: the people who would rather do an honest day's work than look for government handouts. The people we will retake it for are the decent, hard-working people of this country who have been called 'racist' for calling for laws to be obeyed; the people who are labeled 'homophobic' because their faith uses the definition of marriage we had all agreed upon until it became inconvenient for people pushing a 'woke' agenda; the people who believe in the American dream, not the nightmare cooked up by Karl Marx."
When he declared his candidacy in December 2020, Duke was seen as an unlikely candidate for the nomination. A firebrand social conservative who had garnered a reputation for unlikability in the Senate, Duke's disastrous 2014 re-election campaign became infamous. In the heart of rock-ribbed Oklahoma, the four-term incumbent's combination of pugnacity, complacency and arrogance allowed him to be shuffled out in dramatic fashion by Bradley Denning, the first Democrat Oklahomans chose to represent them in nearly 50 years. Few thought Duke would ever return to the political arena after such a fall from grace.
Spending time as a consultant for Klaxon Oil and the NRA (National Rifle Association), Duke threw caution to the wind after five years in retirement. He entered the race after several strong contenders, including former Florida governor James Ritchie and South Carolina governor Ethan Butler, opted to sit out. Duke's brand of confrontational conservatism played well in a divided field--he benefitted enormously from the poor campaign of senator Ruth Norton-Stewart (OH), the frontrunner through the first part of 2021, and undercut Norton-Stewart with the evangelical Christians who had formed an initial bedrock of support for the Ohio senator. After turning evangelical voters to his cause, Duke's place at the top of the pack was only briefly threatened by governor Ben Laurion (MI), an attractive "traditional" Republican candidate who began to assemble support from across the party before withdrawing due to scandal in late 2021. Even as many within his party voiced their discomfort or disgust with him, Duke made steady progress towards the nomination as his opponents failed to cobble together coalitions that could overtake the plurality of Republican primary voters who stood by Duke.
Duke said he had received a "gracious phone call" from Norton-Stewart, who shortly before Duke gave his speech, announced she was suspending her campaign. Senator Jasper Irving (IL), who was Duke's most successful opponent in terms of collecting delegates, has not issued any statements since Pennsylvania was declared for Duke.
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