Real Life Figures in Aprils In Abandon Universe

Al Gore

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 * Won the election of 2000
 * Served two largely unpopular terms which oversaw 9/11, the Saudi-American war, the rise of Al-Wartha, a war in Afghanistan, and the 2008 financial crash

John McCain

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 * Won the 2004 Republican primaries
 * Challenged Al Gore in the 2004 general election

Joe Lieberman

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 * Served as Al Gore’s VP
 * Won the 2008 Democratic primaries
 * Ran against Dick Cheney in the 2008 general election

Mike Gravel

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 * Received a large share of the vote in the 2008 Democratic primaries as a progressive challenger
 * Defected from the party and ran a highly successful third-party campaign with the Greens, garnering ~9% of the vote

Dick Cheney

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 * Won the 2008 Republican primaries
 * Won the election of 2008 on a strong domestic security platform
 * Further entrenched America in the wars overseas and responded to the failing economy with massive deregulation
 * Won the 2012 election by a single electoral vote despite losing the popular vote
 * Oversaw numerous scandals and the rise of intense labor unrest

Louis Farrakhan

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 * Died in a car crash in 2009, provoking civil unrest and conspiracy theories that he was assassinated

Hillary Clinton

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 * Won the 2012 Democratic primaries
 * Challenged Dick Cheney in the 2012 general election and won the popular vote by a large margin

Richard Trumka

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 * Became increasingly radical due to his correspondence with Liam Sutton
 * Oversaw the AFL-CIO’s transition into a leftist organization
 * Participated in the Fifth International
 * Elected chairman of the American Labor Congress
 * Ousted by Liam Sutton in 2018
 * Currently in hiding with socialist militants in Quebec

Bernie Sanders

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 * Participated in the Fifth International
 * Won the majority of pledged delegates in the 2016 Democratic primaries despite losing on the final ballot
 * Challenged Andrew Cuomo for the office of interim president of the NYPG as the reformed Green Party’s nominee
 * Currently challenging Cuomo a second time in the PGUSA’s upcoming elections

Mitt Romney

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 * Won the 2016 Republican primaries
 * Ran against Eric Holder in the 2016 general election

Eric Holder

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 * Won the contentious 2016 presidential election
 * Oversaw the beginning of the Second American Civil War and the collapse of the US into a rump state
 * Infamously dissolved Congress
 * Was assassinated on July 4th, 2020

Mark DeSaulnier

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 * Served as Holder’s VP
 * Sworn in as president after Holder’s assassination
 * Presided over the rump state’s surrender to the NYPG

Rick Perry

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 * Threatened to introduce articles of secession to the Texas state legislature if Holder was sworn in
 * Followed through on his threat, causing the Secession Crisis of 2017

Gloria la Riva

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 * Ran as a perennial candidate for the Workers World Party
 * Participated in the Fifth International
 * Led the failed revolution in the Bay Area during the February Revolt
 * Elected leader of the Vanguard Caucus in the American Labor Congress

Michael Parenti

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 * Participated in the Fifth International
 * Appointed Secretary of Information of the Socialist People’s Republic of Liberated North America

Andrew Cuomo

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 * Elected interim president of the NYPG
 * Currently president of the PGUSA

Nancy Pelosi

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 * Led impeachment proceedings against Dick Cheney
 * Threatened to impeach Eric Holder over destructive bombing campaigns against the AWA
 * Elected interim president of the LAPG                                                                                                                                                                                                                Elián Gonzáles  Notable differences:
 * Drowned en route to the United States in 1999