2018 United States General Election (Iamemilx)

General elections in the United States of America were held on 19 November 2018, including presidential, parliamentary and Gubernatorial elections. Voters headed to the polls to elect:
 * A President of the United States to serve a four-year term (Instant-runoff voting system).
 * 538 of 538 members of the Parliament to serve a four-year term (Open-list Proportional Representation).
 * The governors of all 50 states and 4 territories to serve a four-year term (Two-round run-off voting system).

It was the first election in the United States of America after the House of Representatives, controlled by the Democrats, annulled the results of the 2016 Presidential Election and implemented a number of reforms to make next elections more democratic and open.

As a result of those reforms:
 * the Senate was abolished
 * the FPTP voting system was replaced with an open-list Proportional Representation with a 5% threshold

The reforms led to a split in both major parties. The mainstream Democratic Party became the Liberal Party and the mainstream Republicans rebranded into the Moderate Party. Hard-line Conservatives split into the Patriot Party, Democratic socialists formed the Our Revolution Party and more moderate progressives formed the Social Democratic Party.

Liberal Party
The Liberal Party had 2 candidates running to be the party's presidential nominee. Amy Klobuchar ran as a more socially progressive candidate, while Joe Manchin ran a more conservative campaign.

Amy Klobuchar won the primary with 78.5% of the popular vote, Joe Manchin came last with 21.5% and conceded the race to Amy Klobuchar, urging his supporters to back her in the Presidential election.

Progressives have speculated that Amy Klobuchar would appoint Joe Manchin as Prime Minister if she's elected as President with a Liberal Party majority in the House of Representatives.

Moderate Party
The fight for the soul of the Moderate Party was resolved in the Presidential Primary. Mitt Romney ran as a christian democrat, arguing that the Moderates have to take a centre/centre-right position to regain support and trust of voters. Mitch McConnell who ran against him ran a very conservative and dirty campaign, claiming that Romney can't be trusted, calling him a 'liberal in disguise'.

That kind of rhetoric really hurt both Mitch McConnell and the Moderate Party.

In the end, Mitt Romney won in a very close election with just 53.6%, McConnell got 46.4%.

Mitch McConnell conceded the election two days after the results came in.

Patriot Party
The Patriot Party had only one candidate in the Presidential Primary - Donald Trump. Trump won the primary with 98.9%.

Our Revolution
It was believed that Bernie Sanders would be the only candidate in the Presidential Primary, but then Paula Jean Swearengin decided to run against him. She was widely criticised in the progressive movement for attacking Bernie Sanders and calling him 'too soft'.

Bernie Sanders won the primary with 92.4% of the vote, Paula received 7.6%.

Social Democrats
Elizabeth Warren, Ed Markey, Ayanna Pressley and Kirsten Gillibrand announced that they'd run for nomination. A couple of weeks after announcing her candidacy, Ayanna Pressley suspended her campaign and endorsed Ed Markey. Later on, Ed Markey withdrew his candidacy and endorsed Elizabeth Warren.

Elizabeth Warren won the primary with 60.6% and Kirsten Gillibrand got 39.4%.

Libertarians
The executive committee of the Libertarian Party chose to endorse Mitt Romney for president to avoid splitting the vote.

Greens
After Bernie Sanders became Our Revolution's nominee, the Greens chose to back him for president, instead of nominating their own candidate.

Presidential Campaign
Liberal's Amy Klobuchar ran a campaign promising to create more jobs, balance the budget, invest in agriculture and farming and introduce a public option healthcare plan.

Amy Klobuchar was a front-running since the beginning of the campaign, but her lead has substantially decreased, after she refused, during the debates, to work together with progressive parties.

Mitt Romney ran a campaign attacking the Liberal Party for 'destroying American businesses' and 'crashing the economy', and he promised to increase funding for healthcare, although he refused to present a clear healthcare plan.

Donald Trump attacked both the Moderates and the Liberals for 'failing the American People', he called Mitt Romney a 'traitor' and Klobuchar a 'dangerous woman'. Trump promised to bring back jobs by imposing tariffs on China and the EU.

Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren fought for similar principles despite being opponents and often criticising each other. Sanders attacked Warren for taking money from large corporations and Warren attacked him for not explaining how he'd deliver Medicare For All if his party doesn't get a majority in Parliament.

Bernie Sanders' main promise was to deliver universal healthcare and ban private insurance, Warren's top priority was implementing universal healthcare, but not ban private insurance until 2022.

Presidential Election
! style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" rowspan="2"| Candidate ! style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2" colspan="1"| Party ! colspan="1"| 1st round ! colspan="1"| 2nd round ! width="30"|% ! width="30"|%
 * - style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;"
 * - style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;"
 * style="background-color:#5F9EA0;"|
 * style="text-align:left;"| Amy Klobuchar
 * style="text-align:left;"| Liberals
 * 30.4
 * 54.4
 * style="background-color:#E03C31" |
 * style="text-align:left;"| Mitt Romney
 * style="text-align:left;"| Moderates
 * 25.2
 * 45.6
 * style="background-color:#1DACD6"|
 * style="text-align:left;"| Bernie Sanders
 * style="text-align:left;"| Our Revolution
 * 17.5
 * style="background-color:#232B2B"|
 * style="text-align:left;"| Donald Trump
 * style="text-align:left;"| Patriot
 * 17.4
 * style="background-color:#D71868"|
 * style="text-align:left;"| Elizabeth Warren
 * style="text-align:left;"| Social Democrats
 * 9.5
 * style="text-align:left;font-size:90%;" colspan="8"|
 * }
 * style="text-align:left;"| Elizabeth Warren
 * style="text-align:left;"| Social Democrats
 * 9.5
 * style="text-align:left;font-size:90%;" colspan="8"|
 * }
 * }

Amy Klobuchar was declared winner of the election and Mitt Romney conceded the race. Donald Trump called Mitt Romney a loser and said that the Moderates should've endorsed him for president instead, claiming that he'd be able to beat Klobuchar, if conservative voters got behind his campaign.

Aftermath
Amy Klobuchar assumed the Presidential office, but wasn't able to win the majority of seats in the House of Representatives. After long negotiations with Our Revolution and Social Democrats, it was announced that Nancy Pelosi would be nominated to be Prime Minister. Social Democrats and Our Revolution agreed to support her candidacy.

Nancy Pelosi's candidacy was opposed by the Moderate Party and the Patriots. 6 Our Revolution representatives abstained from voting. Moderate leader Mitt Romney gave a speech in which he attacked Nancy Pelosi and said that she'll form a government with 'marxists and trotskyists'.

After Pelosi was appointed as Prime Minister, she met with a number of senior Soc Dem officials, including Elizabeth Warren and an agreement was signed between them. Bernie Sanders and his collegue Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez met with Nancy Pelosi the next day and, after 9 hours of negotiating, signed a resolution in which they agreed to cooperate on issues on which they agree, like raising the minimum wage and investing in infrastructure.

On December 29th, Nancy Pelosi announced a coalition agreement with Social Democrats and a co-operation agreement with Our Revolution.

As a result of the formation of the formation of the Nancy Pelosi's Cabinet, Social Democrats got 2 ministerial seats and Our Revolution got 1.