As the dust settles on an acrimonious OTL 2020 US presidential election, let us perhaps be reminded that this very same race of Donald Trump versus Joe Biden very easily could have happened many years ago. Joe Biden launched his first, unsuccessful run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1987, but while he was initially seen as promising, he was derailed by his plagiarism scandal. Meanwhile, certain sections of the Republicans were unimpressed by their front runners like Bush and Dole, and thinking maybe that eccentric media mogul Donald Trump, with his strong statements about the trade deficit with Japan, might be the way to go.
So how do you get to a situation where the OTL’s presidential race happens 32 years ahead of schedule? How does it go, and whoever wins, what happens from there?
So how do you get to a situation where the OTL’s presidential race happens 32 years ahead of schedule? How does it go, and whoever wins, what happens from there?
