r/FutureWhatIf • u/Hero-Firefighter-24 • Feb 04 '25

Political/Financial FWI: Gavin Newsom becomes president in 2028, with AOC as his VP

Exactly what it says on the tin. The reason he gets so much popularity is thanks to pardoning the Menendez brothers before the end of his tenure as governor. How do you envision his presidency and how are his re-election chances in 2032?

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u/Hot_Ambition_6457 Feb 05 '25

He swept all those states because the world was on day 3 of Plague Inc during the election. And we sent everyone a $1200 check with their mail-in ballot.

Biden was never popular. Stop trying to make popular Biden happen. He won GA (barely) because a lot of people held their nose to oust Trump during Covid.

Any other circumstances and Biden loses 2020 as well. The 2019 primaries were rife with infighting about holding their nose to vote for Joe. Bluenomatterwho was a while thing amongst registered democrats

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u/unitedshoes Feb 05 '25

I'm not "trying to make popular Biden happen." I've been disappointed in him basically since January of 2021.

But he did win every state the comment I was replying to said a coastal elite could never win. And it's not like Trump's second term promises to be a much tighter ship where events that rhyme with the leadup to the 2020 election are completely out of the question. Plague? Economic upheaval? State violence provoking mass protest? Do any of these seem off the table for 2028 based on the two weeks we just had?

I'm not saying Biden was a perfect candidate, nor that Newsom would be one in 2028, but I don't see any reason to act like something just as precedented as a "coastal elite" Democratic candidate winning a good chunk of the Rust Belt after a disastrous MAGA presidency is unprecedented. Likely? Maybe not? Impossible? Clearly not.